over the moon

I love all my babies.

My beautiful boy.

My beautiful girl.

And my third baby,

this blog.

And last week I found out the very exciting news

that my third little baby 

is a finalist in the MAD (Mum and Dad) Blog Awards 2013.

It absolutely made my week

to find out Dear Beautiful

had been nominated in the Best Baby Blog category.

This blog was started as a baby blog

and continues to be a record

of my teeny baby girl

as well as my not-so-babyish-anymore boy,

so being a finalist for Best Baby Blog is amazing.

I have no idea who nominated me,

with 65000 nominations for the awards as a whole

there must have been a fair few of you,

which seriously gives me a lovely warm and fuzzy feeling.

If it was you,

THANK-YOU!

From the bottom of my heart.

And now I get to go to a fancy award ceremony in September

with all the other lovely finalists

where we can spend an evening celebrating fantastic blogs

and finding out the winners in each category.

Last year I was a finalist

but I had to miss the awards because I had a one week old baby

so I am doubly excited about getting to go this year.

So many of my lovely blogging friends are also finalists,

some in the same categories

which will make it very tricky for me to vote.

My friends Jess at Mum2BabyInsomniac

and Becky at The Mummy Adventure

are nominated for Best Pregnancy blog

alongside by bestie Katie at Mummy Daddy and Me Makes Three.

Katie is also nominated for Best Family Life

as well as Best Photography,

alongside our fellow Me & Mine photo project buddy Lucy at Capture By Lucy.

Other lovely blogging folks Maggie Stone, Mammasaurus, 

Actually Mummy, But Why Mummy Why and Science Sparks are also finalists.

In fact so many of the blogs that I read regularly are finalists.

And all my fellow Best Baby Blog nominees are fantastic too.

You can see all the finalists here.

So here is the embarrassing bit

where I say that if you've enjoyed reading my baby blog

then please give me your vote.

I love documenting my babies' lives on this blog

and I love that some of you clearly love my posts too.

And I promise I'll love you forever and a day

if you would vote for us.

Just click on the badge below if you would like to.