Ahhhhhhhhh … Well.
With less than an hour to go, I concede this race for Best Miscellaneous Mommy Blog over to Scary Mommy. It sure was a heckuva run, though, wasn’t it?
All total right now my category has 94,250 votes. And I got 41% of those votes. Now I’ve never claimed to have good math skills, but I estimate that to mean I got approximately 38,650 votes. For ballparking sake, let’s say that is nearly 40,000 votes, people!
And get this– My category had the highest number of votes out of all 17 categories on the entire Mommy Blog Awards! The second runner up was the Working Mom category who logged just 70k responses.
Ok.
So here’s the deal.
I am a nobody.
Seriously.
My blog has never been nominated for anything other than the Kreativ Blog award that a nice lady once tagged on me. I have never met anyone all that famous unless you count Larry Gatlin when I was two. I’ve never been featured on Oprah or People magazine or gotten a book published. I’m just an unskinny Southern lady sitting over here behind my computer screen drinking my coke-cola and typing about my life and my kid and my boring day to day existence. Then this Bump Mommy Blog award comes up, and suddenly I have nearly FORTY THOUSAND votes for my blog. 40k. 40,000. Whoa. Seriously people? 40 t-h-o-u-s-a-n-d??
HUGE shocker.
My competitor, on the other hand, has an entire page dedicated to nothing but her awards and accolades! And from what I saw, she never once even mentioned in or on or around her blog that she was even NOMINATED for this award! But somehow she pulled 50,000 votes out of her back pocket. She is over there giving away Flip Videos and attending NYC movie premieres while hob-knobbing with the likes of Minnie Driver and Uma Thurman and friggin’ Goose from Top Gun, for Pete’s sake!
Needless to say, HOW AM I EVEN IN COMPETITION WITH THIS PERSON??? She is obviously WAY cooler than me!!
I really have no clue how it happened.
Seriously though, congratulations to Scary Mommy. You have boosted my ego this week more than you’ll ever know. Enjoy your Pottery Barn gift card!
Honestly, I’m ok with not winning. I’m not really a Pottery Barn kinda gal anyway. I’ll let you in on a little known fact about me: I have never in my life made a purchase from Pottery Barn. But I hear really great things about their Spiral Votive Holders, though. (heh! That’s a little inside joke for my Nesties.)
It was just the bragging rights that I really coveted. Plus it’s been so much fun this week watching my numbers skyrocket over and over again as the tug-o-war ensued, first with Mommy’s Quiet Time and then with Scary. I would just sit with my mouth a-gape going “For real??” every time I made a comeback.
I am totally in awe of all the support from all of you guys and everyone single person who voted for me. You all rocked my world this week, and I sincerely appreciate that. Thank you so very much.
I bet your little fingers are SUPAH tired after all that clicking.
MIDNIGHT UPDATE: Check out the final votes:
I remember you from my time on the Knot then the Nest. Loved all your cool ideas! Your little boy is soo friggin cute!! My finger is hurting but it was worth it. I thought you could have made a great comeback. I still love your blog!
Just became a fan of Southern Living Naturally on Facebook.
Ooooh baby, did I vote for you! I’m relieved this contest is done and I can go back to playing Mafia Wars, FarmTown, and Restaurant City. Special thanks to my Coolita Cheerleader in CA who spent hours on those times when you pulled into the lead and gave me the secret key code “clrl k”. I’m not sure it made things any faster, but it sure helped the monotony.
Love the blog, love the gracious losing, love the generosity, love my sweet Beth. 🙂
Mom
Also joined your blog for Southern Living Naturally. Ok must have been under a rock. I use to love Watkins products and totally did not know they were still around. Use to love the vanilla. Also fondly remember my grandma using some type of salve. Need to buy some things from you!
All hail UB! All hail UB!
(No, that’s not the little people in the locker from Men In Black. That’s Unskinny Boppy for the initially challenged.)
Congrats on being runner up in the category!! It was fun being a part of the ride and the UB Voting Posse. Love the blog! Love your graciousness! And as for Scary Mommy…..watch out for things that click in the night. 😀 Click click…click click…click click
I love your blog…I voted!
I voted! I love your blog.
I voted!!
Megan
i voted!
-Christin
Became a fan of Southern Living Naturally on Facebook 🙂
I voted! You hung right in there, too!!!
Marcia
Good run Beth!! You know I voted, more then a few time, heheh! 🙂
I voted, and congratulations on the great run!
Great run!! Your blog is great! Congrats on your following 🙂
Even if you didn’t win, you had a great run. How cool to be nominated! I voted!
I’m too late to vote! 🙁 I just stumbled upon your blog. It looks great! Sorry you didn’t win!
Oh Beth – I was pulling for you, hon – dam. It was so close…..I was really hoping you would win. I voted 4 times for you :(:( Sadly it was not enough. You are a sweetie to do this give away. I never win anything so I don’t expect it to happen this time. But I visit your site so much, I just love it. Congrats on being SO CLOSE – and this Baltimore lady is gonna keep on reading this blog.
psssst…I too have never bought anything from Pottery Barn. Just sayin……
Have a greay day, Beth!
from ~dt~ at the nest d&r
I voted for you:) I am a friend of D over at all things G&D and found your blog through her blog. I love it! Your humor, variety of posts, and amazing photos, keep me coming back every day for more. Thanks!
Well, I really couldn’t see well enough to figure out how to enter the contest but I did send in lots of votes most of the day yesterday.
[email protected]
I voted for you like mad those first few days although admittedly I was a slacker towards the end since I was on vacation. Anywho, what an incredible run! I’m proud of you, girl!
Natalie
Well of course you know I voted for you, and voted, and voted. 🙂 I’m so bummed you didn’t win, and it is SO sweet of you to thank your readers like this. You are the winner in my book. 🙂
I voted for you like crazy! I hate that you didn’t win, but you definitely gave Scary Mommy a run for her money! I’m so proud of you! =)
Carla
Oh, and I blogged about you too! 🙂
http://themathfam.blogspot.com/2009/10/come-enter-my-friend-beths-giveaway.html
Hey! I saw a link to the voting through Dusty’s blog. I voted like crazy (it was a slow day at work! ha). You are hilarious and have such a beautiful family!
I have suscribed to you through google reader and look forward to more stories from you!
I voted for you! It took me a while to get the page loaded but I manged to get quite a few votes in.
I also commented on Waffle sandwiches! (under Stucas)
I voted for you! Sorry you didn’t win 🙁
I voted for you many times over the last couple of days, in fact last night, I spent a couple of hours refreshing while watching tv, sorry you didn’t win!
Oh and I’m also a new follower/subscriber!
I voted for you! I’m sorry you didn’t win! I love your blog! I can’t wait to add some of Sarah’s antics to your Whippersnapper Wednesday!
I’m now following you! Hehehehe!! I’m such a stalker! 🙂
I became a fan of Southern Living Naturally on Facebook!
I’m also now following your Southern Living Naturally blog! I’m a super-double stalker!!
I just left you a comment under your Shunting Trucks and Hauling Freight post! 🙂
WHAT? you didnt win? i was trying to hit refresh but the nest being the nest it was super slow. i voted for you many times though cause im a huge fan of you and G, my son likes to see pics of cute babies.
I also hear PB has a love big fork and spoon 🙂
OK, seriously?? Seriously?? LOL!
I blogged the shit out of this contest. I was on twitter and Facebook and e-mailed every person I know. A bunch. I forced my brother to get his whole business school class to vote obsessively. Ha!
I had a whole post BEGGING for votes on Friday. A shameless, pathetic post. When I checked Friday night, you were way ahead and I took the post down because I was embarrassed! How lame is that?
I’m not sure what the votes even ended at, but I really thought you had it in the bag. And the number of votes was pure craziness!! Too bad we weren’t getting a prize for that!!
Anyway, now that I’ve written an essay, congratulations to us both. I think we both deserve the $1000 grand prize!! Which, by the way, I’m not daring to try for. That’s way out of my league.
And… it’s nice to meet you. 🙂
I voted several times! Love your blog!
I totally follow you to the point it is really stalkerish.
Love you!
Jeremy
I voted….but dang it, you didn’t win. 🙁
I love, love, love your blog!!!
Tiffany P.
I voted (thanks to G&D’s post yesterday).
(And thanks to her, now I subscribe to your blog too!)
Would love to win an Amazon card. I voted for ya!
I voted for you! :o) I don’t comment often but I do love to read your blog.
Didn’t read the other ways to get my name in. LOL
I follow you on blogspot.
Tiffany P
I also follow your Southern Living Naturally blog.
Tiffany P
I’m a fan of Southern Living Naturally on FB.
Tiffany P
So sorry you didn’t win! I found out about this on OOF
Kathleen N
And now I’m subscribed to SLN via RSS
And now I’m a Facebook fan, too!
Aw man, I totally thought you could take her Beth! You put up a helluva fight though, babe! :bighug
PS–you know I voted for you! 😀
I voted, maybe more than once. ::whistle:: I guess the consolation is that Scary Mommy seems pretty damn hilarious. And BTW, to a whole lot of us you are waaaaay more than a nobody! ~Merry
Sorry you didn’t win, but I tried!