Voting Is Now Open
I have to say, reading your truly inspiring stories brought laughter, tears, and awe to my day. It made me realize that life is too precious to take for granted.
I was so caught up in everyone else’s photos, I almost forgot to post mine! Here it is:
Now comes the time to vote (please do not include me):
- Voting will take place from March 9th – 11th.
- Below are the entries. Please take some time to visit them and read their wonderful stories.
- Send your readers over to vote, too. They can vote once per day.
- To vote, just leave a comment below.
- Winners will be announced on March 12th and will receive a $20 gift certificate to Amazon.com and a cool button to display.
Just A Thought
Journey to Homebirth
Crazy Bloggin’ Canuck
The Ice Box
Coo-Coo
Dogwood Dreams
Ainsley’s Mom
Modern Acropolis
Life As A Mama
No Diet Coke for Mommy
There Is A Season
Mejojac’s Memos
Weekends With Dad
skindiving
I Love Flip Flops
Overwhelmed With Joy
Sunshine’s Blog
The Twinkies
Scribbit
Home Schooling Aspergers
Child Protection: serious business
Pass The Torch
Adventures in the 100 Acre Woods
Almost Somewhat Positive
It’s All For The Best
Holly’s Corner Blog
Mommy Needs A Mai Tai
Tears-n-Tantrums
This Little Blog of Mine
Life is Good . . . At The Beach
Ever After . . . My Way
Good luck to everyone!
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About the author: Owner and founder of An Island Life. Sharing my life as a mother to 3 wonderful daughters, working as a flight attendant, and living a blessed life in Hawaii. |
What a beautiful photo of your two girls!
Ack! And I took a photo yesterday to post today. A day late, but the entries are all good. And I love that photo of your girls
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Your children are so beautiful! Thanks so much for hosting this contest. This has been so much fun!! Good luck to everyone
Dana
I guess I have alot of reading to do this weekend!
Oops and my vote goes to Mejojac’s Memo’s. Great photo, wonderful inspiration.
I vote for The Twinkies!
I vote for Adventures in the 100 Acre Wood. Thanks for the great contest! This was fun!
whenever i read your name kailani i think of a hawaiian song called
“sweet leilani” (do you know this song?) –i am after all a product of a somewhat polynesian upbringing.
thanks for hosting.
i have met a couple of cool people because of this
(like Dana aka sunshine’s blog who posted a picture of her parents as an inspiration… and so now my OWN mother is going to vote for her…or Mert the almost somwhat positive woman…who posted real talent and thought provoking thoughts…)
HEY TO ALL THE CONTESTANTS:
how about if i send my mother and all my relatives to vote for you…you give me the button? please? i just want the button. must have that button.
have a great weekend and let the voting begin!!!!
~chesca the exskindiver on “skindiving”
oh can i vote for myself?
Twinkies for me!!
My vote is for “The Twinkies”
Wow…This is going to be a really hard vote! I loved all the pictures…but I simply refuse to pick one child over another…all the kids are just adorable.
I tell ya – I didn’t see a picture I didn’t like and your stories were all so touching!
However…for me it comes down to skindiving and The Ice Box. ….
…
And I’m going to go with skindiving, because I kind-sorta-offered to pay for a copy.
Also: Happy UBP on its last day! Glad I found my way over here one way or another!!
The Twinkies!!!
My vote is for Sunshine’s Blog
Love The Twinkies!
I’m voting for The Twinkies!
I love those Twinkies!!
Would like to voite for Dana Handy’s entry. Thank you
Would like to voite for Dana Handy’s entry. Thank you
Would like to vote for sunshine4medaily’s entry. Thanks
Twinkies please.
I vote for Sunshine’s Blog!
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Kids are always the biggest inspirations! And your two are so adorable. It makes me miss my grandkids even more. I can’t wait to see them in 6 weeks. Happy, happy, joy, joy! I’m going home!!
More Twinkies, please!
Mark a vote for Sunshines Blog
My first vote goes to Desert Songbird at the Ice Box, her post was so moving… it brought tears to my eyes!
I’ll be back to vote for my other favorite tomorrow since we get one vote day
err used the greater than symbol in my last post doh!
Vote is for “The Twinkies�!!!
Sunshine’s Blog
Hmm…My first vote is for The Ice Box….Very, very moving post and I liked the picture too. Hmm…is it smart to vote for someone OTHER than myself?
By the way, I love the words in your anti-spam verification dealie…..the one I had before was “sunshine” – how did it know it was me?
Vote is for Sunshine
I vote for twinkies!!
My vote is for The Twinkies
The twinkies for me!
One vote for my Twinkies, please.
Twinkies
twinkies
I vote for The Twinkies!
#18 Sunshine daily for me
Givin’ a vote and shout out for The Ice Box…Cheers!!
Sunshine for me
let the sunshine for me
Dana my sunshine for me
Sunshine’s Blog
I vote for Songbird’s Desert Icebox!!
Geez, how lame is this? I vote for…..Me! The Ice Box!
I vote for Desert Songbird’s Icebox
I vote for Sunshine
Sunshine!!
Wow, so much fun to be so inspired this morning making the rounds. So many wonderful photos and stories make voting difficult. I can’t vote on the best photos because they’re all wonderful and how can you vote on cutest kids when they’re all so darn cute?! So I decided as the theme was what inspires you I’d go with the ones that really left their mark on me and that I felt uplifted and inspired by having read/viewed what was shared…Mert (Almost Somewhat Positive) and Desert SongBird (The Ice Box). Everyone’s shares have left me ready to tackle the day and weekend with renewed appreciation and gratitude for all the good stuff. Well done one and all!!
Hugs,
Holly
Holly’s Corner
Love the photos, but Songbird’s flag is inspirational
I felt very inspired by Desert Songbird’s post!
I’m going to vote for myself, so Twinkies, please.
I vote for Just a thought
Just a thought
I vote for The Twinkies!
I vote for Desert Songbird at The Ice Box.
Dogwood Dreams
That is a cute picture of your kids. Today I vote for Ice Box.
Sunshine please
Love the photo of your children. So sweet!
I vote for the Ice Box!
Lovin those Twinkies!!
icebox please for me!
They are all so good….but I think my choice is Sunshine’s.
…much as i want to vote for my own…okay. i vote for sunshine…
(dana…how about let’s split the button?)
Great photos, and I dutifully looked at them all. Put my vote on the twinkies, please.
twinkies, please
Way to go my vote is for sunshine
Sunshine and respect for parents is for me
i vote for Desert Songbird!!!
Lots of good entries, the girls are precious, the babies are cute, the flag is patriotic, but gotta go with Sunshine.
I vote for the twinkies – they are so darling!
I love the twinkies!
Great photos and stories, all of ‘em! I’m voting for Desert Songbird at The Ice Box.
I want to vote for Dana/Sunshine please
Your competition is such a great idea. I checked out most of the entries the other day, and really enjoyed reading them.
I’ll be back tomorrow to vote again,lol!
too tough.
So many wonderful photo’s and words.
my anti-spam word was Rainbow… and I thought how true that describes all the entries.
Wow I love all these pictures they are great. I’m voting for the Twinkies.
I vote for the twinkies
How can I argue? The Twinkies is a great picture.
I vote for the twinkies!!!
Hey, funny thing here: I noticed that the sign-in for leaving a comment includes the Dutch words “komt niet op de website.” Too funny!
My vote is for the Statue of Liberty pic from Tears-n-Tantrums.
Also voting for Statue of Liberty by Tears-n-tantrums. Love it!
my vote is for:
The Ice Box
Oh, let the Sunshine In
This is a very hard decision. There are so many good pictures and everyone’s story is so inspiring. My vote for today is for Sunshine.
This IS too tough. Love the pics of your girls. Precious. hmm….I guess my vote is for Sunshine’s Blog.
I’m jumpin on the sunshine bandwagon.
My vote goes to Desert Songbird at “The Ice Box.” She is proof that Grace exists! As I read her posts, not only is she funny, but she reaches out to others and does her best to inspire and encourage!!! Life could’ve sent her the opposite direction.
Thanks for providing this opportunity to see and meet a lot of neat people!
Wonderful inspirational stories. Thank you for this opportunity to read all about these themes. My vote is for Sunshine’s Blog.
I vote for Modern Acropolis!
my vote: The Twinkies
I hope it’s not too late to put my vote in for Desert SOngbird at The Ice Box!
I vote for Modern Acropolis
I vote for “Modern Acropolis” She rocks and is one of the most talented and creative persons ever. Yay! Go Marie!
I vote for Modern Acropolis
Today I vote for “There is a a season.”
What a great bunch of inspiration! I vote for ice box. Amazing story.
I’m voting for the Twinkies!
I vote for Tears-N-Tantrums
I vote for the Twinkies.
I am completely humbled and blown away by the wonderful comments made about my post.
As today is a new day, I am voting again for….me, of course, The Ice Box!
My vote is for Sunshine’s Blog.
Sunshine’s Blog!
My word verification is “sunshine” – I guess I have to pick Sunshine’s Blog……..
Sunshine
My other vote is for There Is A Season, another story that really touched my heart!
Oh am I too late? I meant to submit my picture it is at: http://tc-twistedfairytale.blogspot.com/2007/03/inspiration.html
Modern Acropolis is my vote!
Me too, I vote for Modern Acropolis.
I vote for “Modern Acropolisâ€? – Marie is so creative and talented. She’s an inspiration!
I was inspired by Sunshine’s Blog…as well as others…
My vote is for Sunshine’s story.
Sunshine: Your blogging and picture make you eligible for some earthly as well as out-of-this-world rewards. Congratulations on picking a fabulous set of parents. I’m privileged to have made their acquaintance with you on this year’s “SkiDaddle!” My vote is for Sunshine’s Blog!
“Honor your father and mother that it may be well with you and that your days may be long upon the earth.”
My vote for today is for Skindiving. I love the picture. Nature in general inspires me, but definitely the water. Being on the water is the most peaceful place for me and a place I can “reconnect” – therefore my vote today is for Skindiving.
Modern Acropolis!
Modern Acropolis, great photo!
I vote for “Modern Acropolis”
A vote for Sunshine please
Sunshine’s Blog!
I vote for the Sunshine Blog.
My vote is for Sunshine please
vote for sunshine
My vote is for Sunshine please
I vote for Modern Acropolis
I vote for Modern Acropolis.
I vote for Modern Acropolis
Sunshine
I vote for Icebox – Desert Songbird!
Since we can vote for ourselves, I do! Modern Acropolis
icebox!!!
I vote for Modern Acropolis.
Once again, it is Sunshine for me.
Sunshine on my shoulder…makes me happy….Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry….Sunshine on the water looks so lovely……oops – I forgot that I was supposed to be voting – sorry, my vote is for SUNSHINE
My vote is with Sunshine’s Blog.
I vote for modern acropolis
I vote for Modern Acropolis-love the pic!
Sunshine you have my vote
You are my sunshine
Parents inspire, so sunshine for me
I’m voting for Sunshine
Way to go for Uncle Harry and Aunt Jackie vote for Sunshine
I give a great big tick to SUnshine!
I vote for I love flip flops.
I vote for This Little Blog of Mine! Awesome photos!
I vote for skindiving. The boat reminded me a day long, long, long ago when I pulled off the shoulder of the coast highway (Southern California) to watch a sailboat sail across the setting sun. Beautiful.
Please add my vote for Sunshine’s Blog…
I vote for Modern Acropolis. It’s like the best blog ever made by anyone.
I vote for Modern Acropolis.
Modern Acropolis, baby!
I vote for Desert Songbird at The Ice Box!!
I find her awe-inspiring!
Looks like a great place to see a concert!
Mine’s up
I am voting for the Twinkies
I vote for Modern Acropolis
Modern Acropolis all the way!!
I’m casting my vote for Desert Songbird, over at the Ice Box.
I vote for Modern Acropolis. I have seen the St. Louis Arch from alot of angles, even from the air, But this really was a unique view to one of our Nations truly inspirational Landmarks.
Adventures in the 100 Acre Wood.
Sunshine and her parents make me happy
Inspire my children to be inspired by me Sunshine for me
Sunshine on day 2
Uncle Harry and Aunt Jackie are inspiring way to go Dana aka Sunshine
My vote is for Heather at It’s All For The Best
I cast my vote for the beautiful Desert Songbird at The Icebox.
Thank you!!!
I vote for modern acropolis…
Modern Acropolis!!!
I vote for Desert Songbird at The Ice Box
I vote for modern acropolis!
I vote for Modern Acropolis!!!
A vote for “Modern Acropolis”
Timmy Votes for Marie’s modern acropolis!
A vote for the creative Mario quilt girl, Modern Acropolis. What a lovely and inspiring picture. You are very talented.
icebox! icebox! icebox!
Another vote for the Twinkies.
Hugsm
AJ
One vote for The Twinkies
Hugs,
AJ
Sunshine is brilliant!
Today I vote for the Twinkies. Thanks!
Casting my vote for sunshine4medaily……..thanks.
I vote for Sunshine – even though Modern Acropolis is the best picture!
Please register my vote for sunshine4medaily…thank you…..
Sunshine is my vote.
Please put me down for Sunshine’s Blog.
Sunshine Blog gets my vote for Sunday.
My Sunday vote goes to an entry that I thought was very awesome. Modern Acropolis. This picture and the thoughts really do inspire me. The picture is awesome and such a unique view of the Arch and really striking. Cool! The thoughts behind it mirror something that I myself would say, so my vote today is for Modern Acropolis.
I’m so behind on this, but I must vote for my friend Tonya at Tears-n-Tantrums
. All just wonderful entries though!
I vote for Desert Songbird from The Ice Box!
Sunshine
Twinkies are #1
Please put me down for Sunday for Sunshine’s entry.
My vote is for Connie at This Little Blog of Mine!
Sunshine makes me smile so I’m voting for her.
I was moved by Desert Songbird at The Ice Box with her story and picture. Serving in Afghanistan right now, there is nothing more moving for me than our stars and stripes. Give her my vote.
What a beautiful blog site you have here! And your children are beautiful too! I can’t wait to keep reading more from you!
i vote for sunshine blog!
Voting for Desert Songbird at The Ice Box!
I vote for Modern Acropolis!
I vote for “Modern Acropolis�
I vote for Modern Acropolis!
Just a thought please
I want just a thought
I really liked Sunshine Blog’s entry. A person is very lucky to have a wonderful set of parents.
Dana…I know your parents and this is very accurate. I am voting for Sunshine’s entry.
my vote still goes to sunshine.
When I met your parents I was inspired too Sunshine on day 3
Sunshine, shine on day 3
go sunshine day 3
Sunshine for me, good job Dana
Hope Maggie and Holt write about us like that. Vote Sunshine
Sunshine makes me happy
All very good, must vote for Sunshine
I vote for Desert Songbird at The Ice Box.
My vote is for Sunshine
Aunt Margies fav song: You are my Sunshine
I vote for Sunshine
I vote for Desert Song at the Ice Box
Ms. B says Sunshine’s Blog made me smile…as well as many others. Great job everyone.
Please put my vote down for Sunshine’s Blog again.
Voting for Sunshine.
vote for Modern Acropolis
Vote for Modern Acropolis. Hi Marie!
This doctor thinks sunshine is good for the soul!
I vote for Modern Acropolis!
This young man (and I use that term loosely) votes for Sunshine.
I (again) vote for Modern Acropolis
And again I think I will vote for the twinkies
I vote Modern Acropolis
Modern Acropolis rocks! I vote M.A.
the Twinkies
Sunshine
Sunshine Blog gets my vote!
Yep, your dad is a nice fellow…I vote for Sunshine’s entry.
Twinkies here, too!
Another one for the twinkies!
I vote for Modern Acropolis.
Twinkies again
Twinkles!