{"id":773,"date":"2011-01-31T05:18:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T05:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/?p=773"},"modified":"2011-01-31T16:12:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T16:12:57","slug":"flattered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/flattered\/","title":{"rendered":"Flattered!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When I first thought about blogging, two of my friends told me I needed to look at <a href=\"http:\/\/thepoefam.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Poe Fam<\/a> site.\u00a0 I was instantly in love and blown away with Brittney&#8217;s site!\u00a0 She is an amazing mom, and SO STINKIN&#8217; CREATIVE!\u00a0 She is a blessing to her family and a blessing to anyone who reads her blog!<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sooooo, I was so very flattered when she awarded me with the &#8220;Stylish Blogger Award!&#8221;\u00a0 I&#8217;m still trying to figure out what I&#8217;m doing on the ole&#8217; world wide web, and I&#8217;m in the middle of a complete overhaul on my site, but I completely appreciate her kindness!\u00a0 Thank you, Brittney!!!<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thepoefam.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-803\" title=\"poefam-final\" src=\"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/poefam-final-300x88.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"88\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/poefam-final-300x88.png 300w, http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/poefam-final.png 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Upon receiving this award, I am supposed to:<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1) Thank and link back to the person that awarded it.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2) Share 7 things about myself.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3) Award 10 great bloggers.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4) Contact these bloggers and tell them about the award.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I decided this could be fun&#8230;<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So here are 7 things you always wanted to know about me.<\/span><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I was born in Greenville, Mississippi and I loved spending my summers there as a child\/teenager.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I am 25% Italian, 25% Lebanese, 100% Southern!\u00a0 I love homemade Italian spaghetti sauce, eggplant parmesan, and cannoli.\u00a0 I love Lebanese stuffed grape leaves, kibbee, and tabouli.\u00a0 I love Southern style grits, chicken fried steak, and fried okra!\u00a0 I just like FOOD!<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I don&#8217;t use calendars&#8230;it&#8217;s a problem!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve missed or messed up many a birthday party! (SERIOUSLY&#8230;as I was typing this I got a text from my friend Elicia that said, &#8220;Where are you?\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to eat your piece of cake!&#8221;\u00a0 I MISSED ANOTHER BIRTHDAY PARTY TODAY!!!\u00a0 i truly can&#8217;t believe the irony of receiving this text as i was typing that!!!<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I live less than a mile from my parents&#8230;less that half a mile from my in-laws.\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t trade it for the world!<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;m a MESS!\u00a0 A serious mess!\u00a0 I like having a clean house&#8230;I just can&#8217;t seem to get it there.\u00a0 Keeping house is NOT my strength!<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 5th grade I had a bike wreck, and I had a scab on my elbow.\u00a0 This crazy boy sat next to me and he used to draw on the scab.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I married him!<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now, to the bloggers i would like to award:<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/baseballsbutterfliesblessings.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baseballs, Butterflies, &amp; Blessings<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapmanfamilyoffive.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chapman Family of 5<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/lucius-everydayblessings.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Everyday Blessings<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/megandtheboys.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Meg and the Boys<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runningwatwoods.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">My Two Men and a Little Lady<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/sweetcarolinebumbumbum.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sweet Caroline Bum Bum Bum<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/thechilekfamily.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Chilek Family<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fletcherbabymakesthree.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Fletcher Family<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/williamsfamilytyler.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Williams Family<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/buntfamily.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">There&#8217;s Mud and a Big Red Bow on my Monogrammed Apron<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first thought about blogging, two of my friends told me I needed to look at The Poe Fam site.\u00a0 I was instantly in love and blown away with Brittney&#8217;s site!\u00a0 She is an amazing mom, and SO STINKIN&#8217; CREATIVE!\u00a0 She is a blessing to her family and a blessing to anyone who reads [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}