We Were Nominated!

Edited to add: We have responded to the coordinators of the blog awards after a comment was left on this post. We let them know that it is correct that we are not officially home schooling at present, and they are welcome to remove our blog from the contest. We wish the best to those home schooling blogs participating and for the remainder of the awards process to run smoothly. I'm sure the coordinators have a lot of work to do to make sure all goes well.

As stated in the original post, we are and will continue to train our young adults in all areas until they have homes of their own. Thank you to everyone who commented here in regards to the awards. We appreciate it.

We just found out this morning that Mountain Musings has been nominated for a Homeschool Blog Award! Thank you to whomever nominated us in the Best Family or Group Blog category.

Having finished our 17-year home schooling journey a few years ago, we actually rarely write on home schooling topics, although you can go to the Home Education category on our sidebar to read past posts.

The continued schooling going on in our home now is home training geared towards helping our daughters learn to be godly wives and our son learn to be a godly husband, and it involves all of life's lessons as they come along on our journey. We are enjoying this season of life just as much as the younger home schooling years!

Voting began on Monday, April 9, and continues through Friday, April 13. Go here to check out all the blogs listed in the Family Blog category, and go here to vote in all other categories.

~Deb

Comments

[Tammy S.]

Congratulations! =)

[The Trents]

Congratulaions! What an honor!

[Elise]

Yes! I'm heading over to vote for you right now! :)

[Dorothy]

Congrats! I already voted for you! :-)

[Randi]

Off to vote for my favorite homeschooling family!!!

[Sprittibee]

I am one of the coordinators of the event and have been sent to your link via another nominee. I got hundreds of nominee links and was unable to spend ample time looking in to each of them to make sure that all of them fit the rules of the contest. It has been brought to my attention that you no-longer are homeschooling by another blogger. I have disqualified many other blogs from the contest for this fact. If in fact you WERE homeschooling in the year 2006, you are still qualified to be in the voting and win. If not, I would have to remove you from the contest. However, I think it is great that you were a homeschooler and that you are supporting the homeschool community. Please email me at [email protected] and let me know if you were homeschooling in 2006. Thanks so much for understanding.

[Conni Lu]

I send you congratulations on this honor. How wonderful! :)

[Doc]

There's no "rule" anywhere on the homeschool blog site that states the nominees have to be currently homeschooling. The nominees simply must be homeschooling blogs, or in some cases, not, since frugal and crafty blogs were also included. There are "company blogs" which include blogs for magazines - who does a magazine homeschool? There's no reason your blog should have been disqualified. I happened to use your blog as an example in a blog posting today, because the organizer also tried to bully me off the nominees list. She's just making an example of your blog - and for that, I'm sorry. It's called "covering your tracks", since she claimed "many blogs had been disqualified". They haven't been. Except for yours.

[Deb]

Doc ~ thank you for the comment. We definitely are not looking to get into any controversy over this; it doesn't bother us at all if this is what the coordinators decide. We are just thankful they wanted to encourage other home schoolers to keep at it! We appreciate their hard work, and we support them in their endeavors.

[Leslie W]

Wow!
I vote you tops no matter what the outcome!