An Award, A Guessing Game, and A Giveaway!

Such fun! I am so honored and happy to receive a delightful blog award from MelindaRD of Nutrition, Food, Travel and More! Melinda so kindly graced this blog with the "Creative Writer" blog award, and she completely made my day as a result! :-)

I so love reading Melinda's wonderful, vibrant, exuberent posts about her life overseas and the incredible culinary art she creates completely from scratch on her From Scratch weekends... Recently, she's wowed me with homemade pasta, homemade bagels, and a quiche complete with homemade pastry dough - how impressive is that!?

The especially fun part about this award is that it comes with a challange - to list 7 "facts" about one's self, in which only one is true! However, I just read wonderful Sophia's recent post on her blog Burp and Slurp, and in true, clever, brilliant Sophia fashion, she changed the rules to 6 true facts and one false one! Since I love the philosophy of an independent spirit, and, more practically, since I too am a completely inadequate fibber, I decided to follow Sophia's example... Then, of course, my wonderful, clever readers get to guess which fact of the 7 is the lone one that isn't true! To make this game even more exciting, I decided to include a giveaway, which I felt especially appropriate as Monday is my Birthday, and I think my wonderful readers should receive a present on my Birthday as well! :-) Thus, to one randomly drawn recipient, I shall send... Two goodies from Peanut Butter & Company: A jar of Cinnamon Raisin Swirl, and a jar of Dark Chocolate Dreams!

I adore both of these nut butters, and I just couldn't resist sending a little peanut butter love out into the blog world... :-) Both of these peanut butters are also vegan and kosher!

To enter, simply leave a comment guessing which fact of the 7 is false! Those who guess correctly get an extra entry! Another way to gain an extra entry, of course, is to mention this giveaway on your blog, and then leave me another comment telling me you blogged about the giveaway! :-)

Are we ready, then? Channel your inner psychic... :-)

1.) I'm an only child, but I grew up with 3 dogs, 3 cats, 2 horses, and 60 sheep!

2.) I used to be allergic to broccoli and bananas, but thankfully I can enjoy both of them now!

3.) The reason I'm so terrified of spiders is because I used to have a pet terrantula, and I never quite got used to her (him?)... Then one day she (he?) escaped, and I've never quite recovered...

4.) I learned how to ride a horse when I was 2 years old! I've been riding ever since, and during my sophomore year of college I seriously considered dropping out of college to ride horses professionally... Thankfully, I decided to be practical and stay in college. :-)

5.) When I was a child, the only food I didn't like... was chocolate.

6.) My two favorite household chores (aside from cooking, of course :-), are doing laundry and mowing the lawn!

7.) The top of my list of exciting things I long to try in my life: skydiving, surfing, and learning how to fly a plane!

Now, I get to pass the award along, too! I have to try to pick blogs who haven't already received the award, and I'm also only allowed to select 6 bloggers, which is such a hard task! I'm amazed at how blessed I am with the multitude of wonderful blogs that I get to read, savor, and be uplifted by every week... Y'all are wonderful!!

I hereby bestow this award (along with lots of hugs across the web :-) to...

Beth of 990 Square

The Diva of Beach Eats

Jamie of No Animals Lots of Carbs

Evan of Food Makes Fun Fuel

Gita of Gita's Kitchen

Lele of Lele Lurves Plants

Happy Guessing, and Happy Writing! :-)

(and happy cat-napping, if you're a sleepy kitty... :-)