Kicking Off the New Year With a Blog Award

Thanks to Shae at Yay For Home! For the Honest Scrap award.

The rules are to share 10 honest facts about myself then give the award to 7 other bloggers who inspire me.

1. I greatly enjoy killing virtual zombies and other monsters. I miss the days of Doom and Doom II and to a much lesser extent Blake Stone.
   
2. I was born on my mother's birthday.
   
3. When I was born my mother did not recognise me as her own because she was so high on pethidine she didn't know what was going on.
   
4. I'd really like to have at least 5 children and I'm not opposed to them all being girls.
   
5. I was breastfed for four months. I believe this is because my mother and I had attachment problems that went unrecognised.
   
6. I fear possums.
   
7. I feel a special connection to the Greek Goddess Athena/Roman Goddess Minerva.
   
8. One reason for fact 7 is that my father suggested naming me Athena when my mother was pregnant.
9. My mother named me Sarah and had always intended for her first daughter to be named Sarah after reading a novel in which there was a character named Sarah (who was a psychopathic murderess). She gave me the book for my 20th birthday, I haven't read it yet and to be honest that's because it looks kind of trashy LOL.
   
10. I am going to get pregnant this year!
    

I'm passing the award along to:

1. Nat @ Bustin' Out Babies (Nat is a dear friend who I met when pregnant, her mix of faith and personal experiences makes her blog an old favourite and her survival of birth trauma to have a normal homebirth is the epitome of inspiring).
   
2. Kint @ Domestic Delusions (Ask her to share her breastfeeding story on there, it's a story of triumph after a lot of adversity and it has drug use in it ;), a real page-turner!).
3. Jill @ The Unnecesarean (Jill's blog is one of the highest quality birth blogs around).
   
4. Redmegarea (This is a preeminent Australia radical feminist blog).
   
5. Wendy @ Boutique Babe (She's my Aunty, but that's not why she gets this award. I'm constantly inspired by her beautiful craft work).
   
6. Ayla @ Primal Home (I greatly admire Ayla as she is busy creating her alternative utopia and blogging about it).
   
7. Carly @ Soul Blossoming (This Mama is living every Mamas nightmare, living after her child died. That she gets out of bed in the morning and that she blogs inspires me greatly and also makes me pause to appreciate how fortunate I am).

Thank-you to those seven bloggers for enriching my life every time they hit "post".