Pay-It-Forward

A few weeks ago, I won a "Pay-It-Forward" blog contest sponsored by Lois Lane II at Fearfully, Wonderfully Made (Love that blog name).

The rules with pay-it-forward are that if you win, you must promise to offer a give away on your blog. Give aways should not exceed $15.

So, here is what I am giving away...a beautiful pair of earrings (a $10 value) from U*R*Unique.

Maybe these?
Or these?



Or these?



Or something else, there's a style for everyone!


Here is how you can win. Visit, U*R*Unique online and look at her beautiful collection. Then, come back here and leave a comment telling me which earrings from the silver collection you would like to win. For an additional entry, visit my blog Becoming Me and read the post entitled "Bought with a Price." Then, come back here and leave another comment letting me know that you read it.

The contest is only open to those with a US address due to shipping costs. You have until Monday, February 23 at 11 p.m. to enter.

Facelift for Becoming Me

Becoming Me has a brand new look. Please check it out.

Waking Up In Someone Else's Dream

Big dreams. Would it be too presumptuous of me to write that we all have them? Perhaps. I have them. Sure, many of my dreams are seeded in reality or at least in the realms of human possibility, but I have them.

In fact, I’ve had dreams for a long time. I’ve even kept record on lists: dream vacations; top 20 places to visit before I’m 50; family activities; etc. Sadly, many of the dreams and wishes I’ve penned on paper are not mine. They never belonged to me. I named them, talked about them excitedly, and hung on to them as a rope connecting to my future. But they weren’t mine. Instead, they were dreams belonging to the girl I wanted to be, or at least thought I should become.

Somewhere along the time line of my life, and I cannot pinpoint the exact day it happened or why it happened, I deemed myself an undesirable. I knew that God loved me and that Jesus died for me, but never grasped the entire beauty that resides in that truth. Instead, I viewed myself as someone that God had to love and someone who most humans would never want to get close enough to know, let alone love. And with that warped world view, I began my quest to be wanted

I thought that my value was drossy, so then most of my interests were guilty by association. It is not uncommon for teenage girls to want to look and act like everyone else, so at first, my confused sense of self identity was normal for someone of my age. Yet, my desire to be anyone but me grew and aged with my body and morphed into perfectionism. Knowing that no one was perfect, but thinking that everyone else was superior to me, I began to take parts of others to create the “perfect me.”

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Friday's Fabulous Find

Five Minutes For Mom has a new feature that samples the writing of various bloggers. It is a new weekly series and guess who is featured today?? Yep, me! I was actually invited to post, without having to try to win a spot. While you are there, take a look around. 5M4M is a truly fabulous site. Just click on the link below. My featured piece is about Napp's recent job loss from CSU.

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I rank!

I just discovered that Becoming Me reached a blog rank of 82 at Top Blog Area! I'm excited because I only signed up about 6 weeks ago and my initial rank was close to 1,600. So to move from the bottom of the heap to the top 100 in 6 weeks makes my day.

Becoming Me

I have created the new blog "Becoming Me." My introductory post is rather simple, I didn't want to start off too heavy. My hope is that All that Naz will remain a site for my family and friends to enjoy updates about our family and that Becoming Me will be a place where I can use my writing and experiences to provide encouragement to everyone. The target audience is women of all ages, although men are welcomed to read it as well. If you could help me advertise this new site by linking it to your blog, putting a post about it on your blog, or by simply e-mailing people you know with the link, that would be appreciated. Comments on the blog are also encouraged. I hope you enjoy this new site.