Attention, Men of The World:

Want to woo your wife?

This is how you do it, my friends.

And consider yourselves warned, ladies: you will go weak in the knees.

And you will swoon.

And you will want to write something beautiful for someone you love.

I just had to share.

Tonight I looked at the Bloggers’ Choice Awards voting for the first time in about a week, and I found two items of interest:

1) Somehow I’m still hanging in there on the front page (the top nine vote-getters are listed on the front page. I’m eighth, or as some like to call it: OUT OF THE RUNNING SAVE A COMPUTER MALFUNCTION).

2) Of the blogs that are in the top nine as I’m writing this, SEVEN of them have little red badges out to the side that say “Adult Content.” Only two do not. I’m one of those two.

I’m a little tickled by that.

Because here’s the thing.

Say you’re a regular reader of even one of the seven “adult content” blogs.

Say your curiosity gets the best of you and you decide to check out the blog toward the bottom of the page, the one that’s called BooMama or somesuch nonsense.

Say that you’re accustomed to lots of, um, “colorful” language in your daily blog reading.

And then, strangely, you find yourself here.

I’m not sure, but I think the following would probably be a fair assessment of how my blog might across to someone whose blog reading is typically along the “adult content” lines:

OHMYWORD MY MERCY I JUST LOVE JESUS, Y’ALL, I LOVE HIM TO PIECES, AND BY THE WAY HAS ANYBODY GOT A GOOD POTATO CASSEROLE RECIPE FOR THE LOVE OF PETE BECAUSE I’M MAKING SOME FRIED CHICKEN AND LAND SAKES ALIVE YOU’LL NEVER BELIEVE IT BUT ONE TIME WE WENT TO THE FISH CAMP WITH MAMA AND IT WAS MORE FUN! JUST MORE FUN! AND I DON’T KNOW IF I’VE EVER MENTIONED IT BUT DO YOU KNOW THAT I THINK CHRIS TOMLIN SINGS SOOO PURTY-LIKE?!

I mean, those poor souls must think they’ve landed smack dab in the middle of some sort of hillbilly revival meeting. With dinner on the grounds to follow.

Which is why, when I was looking at the Blogger’s Choice thing-y, I found myself wishing I had a little warning badge of my own. Just so people would know what they’re getting into if they decide to click over here.

And LOOK! THE INTERNET IS MAGIC! It enables you to create things ON THE COMPUTER! Like warning badges!

Of course, I can’t actually, you know, use it on the Blogger’s Choice page.

But if I could, I’m sure I’d shoot to the top of the voting.

Provided, of course, that the seven people ahead of me REMOVED THEMSELVES FROM THE COMPETITION.

AHEM.

Land sakes alive.

Beth at I Should Be Folding Laundry has organized a great prize giveaway for you sweet blogger people who have promoted (or will promote) Heather’s love offering this Wednesday. Click here to see all the prizes, check out the rules, and sign the Mr. Linky.

Thanks for all y’all are doing to spread the word!

This post by our sista friend Beth Moore on The LPM Blog offers a great, oh-so-funny perspective on motherhood. I really wish I’d been able to read it Monday afternoon around 5:00 when Alex and I were about to meet some friends for supper and he was SCREAMING! ALL! HIS! WORDS! and asking “MAAAA-MA?! ARE WE GOING! TO TURN!? LEFT!? OR! RIGHT?!” and I thought every nerve in my body had not only risen above the surface of my skin but was being rubbed with coarse sandpaper, to boot.

Good times.

Anyway, I think most of you who read here probably already read The LPM Blog, but if you don’t, you’re missing a bonafide bloggity treat.

And this post and update from Heather will blow you away; her determination and her faith are nothing short of inspiring.

Finally, I’m going to follow Mary’s lead with this next one: if you have a minute, stop by Kelli’s blog and offer her a little encouragement…she is still in a tremendous amount of pain, and she has a long recovery road ahead of her. I know she would appreciate your prayers.

Later, interpeeps!

This morning I got an email from my friend Shalee informing me that I’ve been nominated for a Blogger’s Choice Award for Best Humor, and while I had absolutely no idea what a Blogger’s Choice Award might be, I was instantly sure that it’s an absolutely lovely blog thing-y sponsored by absolutely lovely people who will be presenting the winners with absolutely lovely cash prizes of fives upon fives of counterfeit pennies.

Or something.

So after a little investigating I found out that the very kind dcrmom nominated me, and I’m very appreciative indeed, especially since her nomination means that I’VE FOOLED ANOTHER PERSON INTO THINKING I’M FUNNY, and that in and of itself is some priceless bloggy treasure, people.

There are all sorts of mainstream, edgy, in-your-face blogs that are in the same category that I am (for heaven’s sake, don’t let your kids look over the entire list of nominees unless you want their vocabularies to become a smidge more, um, colorful), so I can’t help but think that as Wii-playing, fried chicken-eating, funky shoe-buying Southern mama who loves Jesus, I’m a little bit of an odd girl out.

But hey, I do have SIX WHOLE VOTES right now, and if that’s not proof that I’m a total force to be reckoned with on the interweb, then I don’t know what is.