Triple Cute Blog Award

My sister over at Hanunyah's Sweet Creations, received the Tripe Cute Blog Award and passed it on. The only rule is to pass it onto 7 other bloggers.

It's a hard decision of who to pass it on to! But, here goes:

Praying for Parker
Life With My Special K's
Down Syndrome: A Day to Day Guide
Einstein-Syndrome
Kevin&Amanda.com

I couldn't quite get 7 bloggers to pass it onto, so 5 will have to do!



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31 for 21: Sunshine Award

Thanks to my sister Suriyah, this blog was awarded the Sunshine Award.

So, the rules of the award are:

1. Save the image above and post it to your blog.
2. Pass the award to your favorite bloggers.
3. Link to their blogs.
4. Let your award winners know they have won by commenting on their blog.

The award winners will be  ....

1. No Greater Joy Mom - I've mentioned the Salem family before (here and here). They just brought home 2 little girls with DS from the Ukraine in May.
2. Cornish Adoption Journey - This family has 4 kiddos with DS. 2 adopted from the Ukraine 2 years ago, one biological and one adopted via a domestic adoption. They are in the process of going back to EE to adopt another one (possibly two) kids.
3. Praying for Parker - This family's little boy with DS is 5 years old (I think he's almost 6 actually). He's just a few months older than Osiyyah and he has been through one health hurdle after another, many not related to DS.
4. Only 1 Mom - I've mentioned Shelley Bedford before in some of the Connecting the Rainbow posts. Her family has adopted 3 boys with DS - 1 from the Ukraine, 1 from Serbia and 1 from Bulgaria.
5. Reece's Rainbow Blog - No further explanation needed, I think the title says what it is ;)!
6. Micah Six Eight - This family just brought home a 6 year old boy from an institution in the Ukraine. They had a very rough, long adoption process that is not normal.
7. Dear Laura...Love, Sissy - This is the blog of an 18 year old girl, Ashley, who has a baby sister with Down syndrome.

Why I Blog . . .

Alysha from Blessed With More Than Deserved left a comment on one of the blog posts here. I thought I'd share it and expound on it more.

I just had to stop by and leave you a REALLY BIG Thanks :D Your blog & all the time you've invested in helping other families has been such a huge blessing & educating tool in my life. Thank you for all your time & for the willingness to share all your findings. Your blog award is 100% earned (I think you should have been #1, but 2 ain't bad :) Keep up the great job Q...we moms need you & God for sure knew what He was doing by placing O so perfectly where he belongs in your family. God bless, Alysha

Alysha has two little boys with Down syndrome. One biological, Eli and one adopted from the Ukraine, Issac. Shortly after bringing Issac home last year, Alysha emailed me asking for more information about Longvida Curcumin and waiting for me to post an update on this blog about it. This was a bit over a year ago and I wasn't keeping the blog very updated. So, her email spurred me on to regularly blog, because I realized I actually had people reading the blog looking for information. And, so I've been a pretty regular blogger for over the last year and I'm so glad I've been able to help families.

Everything from one of my biggest passions in the Down syndrome world - research on nutrition to help people with DS - to another one of my favorite subjects - speech & oral motor therapy - and anything random in between. It's been great to be able to blog regularly and have people benefit from it.

That's why we wrote our book. To help other families who have children with Down syndrome. I know we would've benefited greatly from a blog like this or a book like ours (in fact we found a book similar - Circle of Friends II, but it was out of print) when Osiyyah was first born. But, he was 8+ months old before we found the Circle of Friends II book or anything along these lines. I get emails fairly regularly from new families thanking me for the book and saying it's been such a huge help.

When my brother was born, I purposed to do everything I could for him. Out of love for my wonderful little brother, and knowing how the knowledge and information I've learned over the last 5+ years has helped HIM tremendously, I share, because I know it will (and has) helped others.

Top Down Syndrome Blog 2010

I received an email today from Medical Assistant Schools notifying me that this blog made it into the 2010 Top Down Syndrome blogs. We're listed as #2 in the list of 30 blogs :). How exciting!

You can see the badge for the Top DS blog for 2010 on the sidebar of the blog.