Our winner to the Label Daddy BlogHership

Thank you to all the entries. Obviously, we want to pick everyone but we could only choose one. We read every entry and its never easy to PICK a winner, but we feel this Mom Blogger deserves the win. Please celebrate with her, as its clear she is an amazing person.

Friday Night Live around here will be ABOUT sponsorships. How to get them, how to work with companies, and how to know your worth online. Join us Friday night at 8:30pm for some face to face talk about how to get that BlogHer sponsorship.

Without further ado, our winner:

Blogged here: http://www.allaboutkimberly.com/biggest-contest

and wrote a WAY OVER 500 word reason…LOL…then came back to reread the rules and saw the 500 word criteria so I’m attempting to shorten below…..If something doesn’t sound right or make sense, the link above hopefully is more gramatically correct.

I am the almost 30 year old Mom of two amazing girls. Becka is 16 and came to live with us a little over a year and a half ago. She is the most intelligent and driven teenager I have come across (I’m a high school teacher so I’ve come across many). She was doing everything she could to be the best she could be, but when it came down to it, her environment was terribly limiting. As I watched her, I knew I had to do something about it. I began researching to see how get her out of this situation. I became her legal guardian so that she could go to my school. In the last year and a half, she has proven that it was all worth it. She’s taking advantage of this opportunity to be the best she can be.

Cameron is my other daughter. She’s 8. When I made the decision to invite Becka into our family, I discussed this with Cameron. This was going to be a BIG change in her life for someone to come and live with us. Not only was she losing attention, but she was losing her play area. Our house is small. So she had to give up more than her play room…she had to give up a lot of those toys that were in the play area. There wasn’t enough room in our house for them if they couldn’t be in the loft. But Cameron was great about this. She was more than willing to part with her items, if it meant her “Becky” would be with us. I’ve never been more proud of my princess.

My girls are why I would like the BlogHer sponsorship. I’m a single mom to these girls. I teach in a rural town in Texas – not a very big paycheck each month. Because I want my girls to be the best they can be, any extra money we have goes to pay for extras for them…There are dance/twirling lessons, both play softball, fees for clubs, debate outfits, the list could go on forever. But when it comes time for Mom? I can’t justify the cost of things for me – back a master’s degree, BlogHer, or my favorite perfume. Winning this chance to go to BlogHer would be one chance for something for me – a way for m to learn more about this hobby that has become my passion, a chance to network and learn how to take my blog to a place I dream of, to find the best way to implement a couple of the blogs I have in mind but don’t know where to begin.. Winning a scholarship to BlogHer would be a rare time when I could do something that was for me. Maybe that sounds selfish, but I will be going is if it’s through the generosity of others.