But yayest of all is this: Postcards from the Mothership <\/em>has made the cut as a Best Parenting Blog finalist on this year’s Weblog Awards<\/a>!! YAY!! <\/p>\n Thank you SO much for the nomination, I’m truly honoured. And not only did Maggie nominate me, but the judges picked me – well, picked blog – out of a field of more than 45 nominees, to be one of the 10 finalists!<\/p>\n *pauses to beam proudly*<\/p>\n You know what this means, don’t you? The polls open later tonight, and you will be Winners will be announced November 8, although I suffer no delusions that I’ll be among the top And now, I will shamelessly ply you with photos of my adorably Halloweened children to make you more amenable to voting for me. Simon was a fuzzy caterpillar, and Tristan created his own costume of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (from Fantasia). Beloved had the peaked hat as a souvenir from a trip to Disney World many moons ago, and I invested a stellar 66 cents on a pair of white gloves for him. Tristan put the rest together himself. (The little monkey in the bottom left picture is Jordan, our nanny’s son.)<\/p>\n So you can see I have plenty to be happy about early on a November morning. What about you? What’s worthy of saying Yay in your life today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yay, it’s November! Never thought I’d say those words. Truly, I hate November. Of all the months, November continues to be the suckiest. Bad things happen in November. But November means that the arrival of the Player to be Named Later is just three months away. Yay! And November means Halloween is done, so we … Continue reading “A great start to NaBloPoMo!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-i-love-the-interwebs","category-my-15-minutes","category-yay-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"http:\/\/img215.imageshack.us\/img215\/3538\/wa2007320x160lv8.jpg\")
<\/a><\/div>\npestered incessantly<\/s> politely asked to vote each day this week. I’m absolutely thrilled to see that one of my favourite bloggers, Bub and Pie<\/a>, has also made the list of finalists. Another yay!<\/p>\nthree<\/s> five<\/s> finalists — oh hell, I’m just happy to have made the cut. I mean seriously – Amalah <\/a>and Finslippy<\/a>? Yeah, like I can compete with that. Really, I just want you to vote for me so I don’t come in last, okay? <\/p>\n![\"Halloween](\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2060\/1811560988_f1cf70e902.jpg\")
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