Apparently I’m an S.O.B.

Every Sunday I call my children by telephone and force them to speak with me whether they want to or not.  When I called Andrea this Sunday she was very excited.  The conversation went like this…….

Mom, you’re an S.O.B.

I am not.

Yes you are.

I am not. If you keep talking like this, I’m going to hang up.

No Mom, Liz Strauss, this really cool influential blogger from Chicago gave you the S.O.B. award.

Andrea, did you pay her to do that?

And that is how I found out all about Liz, her blog and her Successful Outstanding Blogger award.  As this is the first time I won an award, I am very happy, excited and thankful. 

My daughter Andrea has been blogging for years.  She would often relate the ups and downs in the lives of  her on-line friends.  People whom she had never met, but still felt close to.  I’m  very familiar with Andrea’s invisible friends as she has imaginary ones since the age of two,  but that’s another story.  For a long time Andrea tried to convince me to write my own blog.   I would leave comments on her site, and occasionally even write an entry.

Andrea persevered and six months ago set up this blog for me.  It is now a part of my every day life.  Like my daughter, I too, now have on-line friends,  people whom I may never meet face to face………but people I call friends.     I owe a great deal to my daughter Andrea and what she taught me about blogging.  To my DH, thank you for providing me with a digital camera.  To my brother Andy, thank you for being my photographer before I owned the camera and for showing me how to edit pictures. 

And to my invisible friends, thank you for taking time to read my daily ramblings.  I’m an S.O.B.  because of you.

Miss Andrea, you will note that I managed to insert the SOB thingamabob on the side bar all by myself….drum roll please.