I have had numerous requests to see the nominations. I don’t see why that shouldn’t be allowed. I am entering them into a spreadsheet to hand over to Laura so she can get them ready for voting next Friday.

Please remember that although a few of the blogs listed have been nominated more than once, I only count one nomination per blog per category. That means that a few of your nominations “haven’t counted” because the person/blog had already been nominated in that category. This is precisely why I believe that showing you WHO has been nominated would be beneficial. This way, those of you who haven’t voted yet can see WHO is in the categories FIRST - before they “use up” their nominations. The only thing about this type of list is that it isn’t going to stay current long. Please remember that nominations are happening behind the scenes all day long, so this list is growing by the hour. I’ll do my best to keep this post updated… but I can’t promise that it will stay that way.

*If you see any duplicates, let me know! You may only be nominated ONCE per CATEGORY!*

NOMINEES by CATEGORY



Best Homeschool Mom Blog

School@Home

Enjoy The Journey

atypicallife.net

Life in a Shoe

Relaxed Homeskool

Our Blue Castle

SlugMom

“Maine”ly Mom

Here in the Bonny Glen

Dishpan Dribble

Less Of Me~More Of Him

Dominion Family

magistramater

Fish in My Hair

Life is Not a Cereal

Aut-2B-Home in Carolina

Cottage Blessings

Marybeth’s Musings on Motherhood and More

buried treasure

Real Learning

Granny’s House

Painting the Memories of Home

Goodberry Hills

Higher Up and Further In

Lines From The Vine

A Dusty Frame

Seeking Rest in the Ancient Paths

Throwing Marshmallows

ZFamily - Pacific Coast, USA

Through the Windowpane

In Beauty and In Grace

HsKubes’ Haven at Home

Training Hearts

The Lilting House

Eat Dessert First…

On Our Journey Westward

Kindred Hearts

Homeschooling the Doctorate?

Sprittibee

Doc’s Sunrise Rants

Ponderings from Picket Fence Cottage

Terrible Speller

My Smoky Mtn. Homeschool

Just Some Stuff

Beyond the Red Door



Best Homeschool Dad Blog

Billy Joe Jim Bob

no school, just learning

theMangoTimes

Doug’s Blog

JackLewis.Net

Love For The Prodigal

O’DonnellWeb

Geoff

Generations with Kevin Swanson

Trust The Children

Steve’s Blog

The Underdog blog

Encourage You!

Homeschooling–and thankful for it!

another blog on the fire

A Family Runs

The Not Quite Crunchy Parent

Walden’s Wits



Best Blog Design

What Makes A Housewife Desperate?

This One’s for the Girls

A Circle of Quiet

Wittingshire

Phat Mommy

Homeschool Hacks

My Home Sweet Home

Bahama Blessings

Heidi Jo Kemp

My Cozy Little Cottage

the sacred everyday

Our Homeschool and Other Such Happenings

Finally Five Minutes To Myself

Fruit in Season

LookListenLearn.org

Enjoy The Journey

Life at the Lillie Pad

Kris’ Eclectic Homeschool

Bioluminescence

Training Hearts

Home Education Magazine

as cozy as spring

pomaleedon

Life is Like a Lunchbox

By Sun and Candlelight

Half Pint House

Less Of Me~More Of Him

Ponderings from Picket Fence Cottage

Just going with the flow…

I Work From Son Up To Son Down

Sprittibee

In Beauty and In Grace

My Smoky Mtn. Homeschool

Reviews by Heidi

A Familiar Path



Best Artistic Content Blog

Bioluminescence

Shimmer.Glimpse.

A Circle of Quiet

One Child Policy Homeschool

My Smoky Mtn. Homeschool

Confessions of a Pioneer Woman

Higher Up and Further In

Pleasant View Schoolhouse

A Step at a Time

Step Into Brielle’s Wardrobe

Huber Hof Academy

av8tqr

Craft Apple

The Heart of Harmony

Sunny

Live and Learn



Best Crafts, Plans & Projects Blog

They Hang Like Paper Lanterns

Heidicrafts

Soule Mama

Our Homeschooling Expedition

mozart & mud pies

Mother Crone’s Homeschool

in the trenches of motherhood

Simply Susan

Cottage Blessings

Mrs. Happy Housewife

Keeping the Home

i have to say…

Sprittibee

Just Call Me Jamin!

Hen and Chicks

On Our Journey Westward

Matschstick Adventures

By Sun and Candlelight

Little Acorns Treehouse

On the Company Porch

Lilliput Station

About: Homeschooling



Best Family or Group Blog (This blog must have multiple authors!)

Northside Unschoolers of Chicago

Why Homeschool

The Common Room

Love2Learn Blog

Homeschooling: One Heart At A Time

Faith Lifts

The Homeschool Cafe

The Beehive

Whiskers on Kittens

Life Without School

Ladies Against Feminism

Mountain Musings

Ward’s Sward

The Well Drained Mind

O Night Divine

Why Homeschool

wonderful pages

The Young Author’s Blog

On the Company Porch

The Well Drained Mind



Best Encourager

quiet life

Gibbons Funschool

Tricotomania

Joyful Days

Robin Kelly

Mother Crone’s Homeschool

The Lilting House

Training Hearts

Coffee Talk

Homeschooling6

By Sun and Candlelight

Seasonal Soundings

Enjoy The Journey

Linda’s Thoughts

Encouragement Along the Way

Holy Experience

Granny’s House

Faith in Love

Higher Up and Further In

Here in the Bonny Glen

Embracing the Journey: Experiencing the Joy

Karen Edmisten

Where Righteousness and Mercy Kiss

Run the Earth, Watch the Sky

Sharpening Our Arrows

Trust The Children

Just Enough, and Nothing More

broncomom

A Path Made Straight

Three’s A Crowd

For The Sake Of The Call

Dura Mater

Cottage Blessings

Fuel

Patricia Ann’s Pollywog Creek Porch

Blest with sons

Doc’s Sunrise Rants

Fruit in Season

Less Of Me~More Of Him

There’s No Place Like Home



Live-What-You-Believe Homeschool Blog

little old house on the hill in the woods

Dandelion Seeds

Throwing Marshmallows

School of Thought

Molly Misadventure

Kindred Hearts

Ragamuffin Studies

Cottage Blessings

Less Of Me~More Of Him

Keeping The Home

Real Learning

Choosing Joy

My Domestic Church

Enjoy The Journey

Life in a Shoe

Painting the Memories of Home

Today in Faerie School

Trivium Academy

Wired Wisdom

A Path Made Straight

Kansas Milkmaid

The Daily Planet

Life Without School

Raising 4 Godly Men

Growing in Truth

Lapaz Farm Home Learning

S/V Mari Hal-O-Jen

The Journey Of A Mother’s Heart

Lothlorien, Wood of the Lady of Light

a little perspective

At A Hen’s Pace

Owl Flutter

A Small Corner of Nowhere

I Work From Son Up To Son Down!

a pixelated homeschooling life

Life is Not a Cereal

Making Home

at home, on fire

Deb on the Run

Take Time to Smell the coffee



Best Unschooling or Eclectic Homeschooling Blog

the brew*crew adventure

chicagolo

Soule Mama

Real Learning

Northside Unschoolers of Chicago

Christian Homeschool Academy

Living Without School

Jeneric Jeneralities

Relaxed Homeskool

The Lilting House

Seeking Rest in the Ancient Paths

Throwing Marshmallows

Learning as we go…

Lapaz Farm Home Learning

at home, on fire

Cake For Breakfast

Doc’s Sunrise Rants

The Joyful Mom

Homeschooling is Life!

Lilliput Station



Best Geographical Blog (Anywhere on Planet Earth!)

One Child Policy Homeschool ~ China

Higher Up and Further In ~ Turkey

One Thing I Ask… (PS 27:4) ~ Eastern Europe - Kosovo?

Northside Unschoolers of Chicago ~ Chicago

Chicago Homeschool Habitat ~ Chicago

The Heart of Harmony ~ California

U Krakovianki ~ Poland

Abarbablog ~ Nova Scotia

S/V Mari Hal-O-Jen ~ Florida Keys

Homeschooling Illinois - Legislation and Learning (HILL) ~ Illinois

Sarah’s Daughter ~ Serbia

You Did What? ~ London

Confessions of a Pioneer Woman ~ Oklahoma

Gibbons Funschool ~ South Africa

What It’s All About ~ England

PalmTree Pundit ~ Hawaii

Keep Homeschool Fun ~ Australia

Delight Yourself In The Lord ~ Australia

The Singapore Scene ~ Singapore

The Heart of Harmony ~ California

Mountain Shade ~ Alaska

Dube Family ~ Seoul, Korea

Rachel’s Ramblings ~ Ontario, Canada



Best Current Events, Opinions or Politics Blog

SpunkyHomeSchool

Home Where They Belong

O’DonnellWeb

Why Homeschool

Perspectives from the Trail Less Traveled

Keeping The Home

My Domestic Church

HomeSchoolBuzz.com

Corn and Oil

Principled Discovery

Consent Of The Governed

Home Education Magazine

Poor Boy Hat

HE&OS

PalmTree Pundit

Raise the Cup!

Ethan’s Ruminations

The Thinking Mother

JackLewis.Net

Doc’s Sunrise Rants

a little perspective



Best Homemaking or Recipes Blog

Shades of Pink

Copper’s Wife

Keeping The Home

Making It Home

Quiet Life

There is no place like home

A Happy Home

The Frugal Kitchen

Teaching Diligently

Less Of Me~More Of Him

Whiskers on Kittens

Kansas Milkmaid

Walk By Faith

i have to say…

Homemaking Homesteader

SlugMom

Gathering Manna

Large Family Logistics

Preschoolers and Peace

With Great Joy

Abiding



Best Teen Homeschool Blog

Cocking A Snook Too!

The Rebelution

Lothlorien, Wood of the Lady of Light

Kezzi’s Cove

Life in a Homemade House

Van Goal

ChesterTeens

Liber Parma

HomeSchool Haven of HsKubes’ Gal

The Autumn Rain

The World As Seen By A Teen Named Chris

Phantom Moose Films

Incredibooks

World War II

An American Girl

Seven Silly Southern Sisters

The Voice of Experience

The Daily Planet

There and Back Again

Songs In the Key of Life

The Handmaidens of the Shepherd

Defective Compositions

Proverbs 31 Maiden



Funniest Homeschool Blog

Since Eve

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Mamalogues

Danielle Bean

Up the Hill Gang

Fish in My Hair

Amy’s Humble Musings

It Coulda’ Been Worse

Grace For Gayle

From Cool to Smoky- A Day in the Life of a Computer Geek: A Photo Essay

no school, just learning

Greek Roots in American Soil

Minnesota Mom

Classic Adventures

The Foil Hat, Inc.

The Lilting House

Notes from the Trenches

Gooblink.com

Kitchen Table Learners

Thoughts from the Home Front

Sassafrassa

Ward’s Sward



Best Cyber-Buddy Blogger

Crafty Girls

The Gookins Dot Net

Ramblings, Rants & Remedies

So Much to Say, So Little Time

Two Sunny Flowers

Dishpan Dribble

Homeschooling6

Seasonal Soundings

magistramater

I Work From Son Up To Son Down!

A Day in the Life

Karen Edmisten

Ponderings from Picket Fence Cottage

Coffee Mom

Dewey’s Treehouse

Where Righteousness and Mercy Kiss

Bona Vita Rusicanda Est

Pass the Torch

Coffee Tea Books And Me

As Cozy as Spring

a pixelated homeschooling life

My Thoughtful Spot

Raising 4 Godly Men

Less Of Me~More Of Him

Our Homeschool and Other Such Happenings

Abiding

There’s No Place Like Home



Best Thrifty Homeschooler

Amy’s Humble Musings

Journey to Simplicity

Biblical Womanhood

Sarah’s Daughter

Finding Contentment In The Suburbs

An Old-Fashioned Education

Happy Hearts At Home

Dewey’s Treehouse

Ang the flying kiwi



Best SUPER-HOMESCHOOLER

Higher Up and Further In

mozart & mud pies

One Thing I Ask… (Ps 27:4)

in the trenches of motherhood

A Day in the Life

Trivium Academy

The Lilting House

By Sun and Candlelight

Honey From the Hive

Here in the Bonny Glen

The Beehive

Just Call Me Jamin!

Sprittibee

Farm School

Doc’s Sunrise Rants

Homeschool6

PrairieFrog Blog

Maureen Wittmann



Best Nitty-Gritty Homeschool Blog

today’s lessons

Jeneric Jeneralities

Poppins Classical Academy

Life in a Shoe

Abarbablog

CM, Children and Lots of Grace

Among Women

Trivium Academy

Choosing Joy

Linda’s Thoughts

Guilt-Free Homeschooling

Cajun Cottage Under the Oaks

The Homeschool Revolution

Let’s play math!

Virtuous Maidens of the Bible

A Dusty Frame

Dandelion Seeds

This Journey Is My Own

Writing And Living

Fast Times @ Homeschool High

Our Homeschool Journey

A Light in the Shadows

Homeschooling6

My Heart’s Desire: Love God and Serve No Other

Classic Adventures



Best Variety

Pass The Torch

Owlhaven

Greek Roots in American Soil

The Common Room

Babymakers

Cindy Rushton’s Desk (Top)

Simply Susan

Wittingshire

Life in a Shoe

A Familiar Path

Home Education Magazine

So Much to Say, So Little Time

There is no place like home

Raising 4 Godly Men

ZFamily - Pacific Coast, USA

Backyard Musings

Homeschool Magazine

Three for Thee

My God Given Mission Field

in the trenches of motherhood

My Domestic Church

Sona Creidhe

Just Going With the Flow

just4homeschoolfamilies

Sharpening Our Arrows

Just Some Stuff

Take Time to Smell the Coffee



Best Homeschool Curriculum/Business Blog

Doug’s Blog

Math-U-See Blog

Real Learning

Donna Young

Cindy Rushton’s Desk (Top)

It’s All About God

Home Education Magazine

Blue Thistle Books

Homeschool Math Blog

Semicolon

Simply Charlotte Mason

A Brave Writer’s Life in Brief



Best NEW Homeschool Blog (Must have started in 2006 for the 2006 Awards!)

No Fighting, No Biting!

Ragamuffin Studies

Homeschooled Guy

HsKubes’ Haven at Home

South Breeze Farm

Finding Our Way

It Coulda’ Been Worse

Consent Of The Governed

A Step at a Time

Life Without School

Just Enough, and Nothing More

A Path Made Straight

Cottage Blessings

Lothlorien, Wood of the Lady of Light

Blessed Among Men

Walking in Truth

Real Learning

Mason Moments

Home For Heaven’s Sake

A Spacious Place

Fuel

Painted Rainbows and Chamomile Tea

Little Acorns Treehouse

Jumping on the bed.

CM, Children and Lots of Grace

Coffee, Tea, Books and Me

Be checking these blogs out to prepare you for voting. Make sure and notify me if there are duplicates, violations of the homeschool-blogs-only policy, or any other problems with this list of nominees. Remember that we are doing the best we can to assure that these nominations and awards are handled fairly. We appreciate your help and interest! Spread the word and request that everyone who reads your blog head over here Monday-Friday next week to vote! Anyone can vote (you don’t have to be a homeschooler).

Have a great Easter weekend!

Nominations are going well. Every category has more than two nominees.

The top category is now TEEN! Thanks for your nominations. There are now 9 teen blogs in the running.

Trailing behind Teen is Best Encourager and Best Geographical Blog - both with 8 nominees so far.

Thanks to everyone for playing fair and sticking to the rules!

Today Begins the Nominations! Seven of you are early-birds, however and have already gotten ahead of the game. I have started a spreadsheet and am entering the nominations as quickly as I can. I just wanted to give you all a few tips that will help you to help me out:

1. Please don’t nominate more than two blogs for the same category.

2. Please don’t nominate the same blog for more than two categories.

3. You may nominate more than one blog and category in your nomination entry (in fact, you can enter ALL your nominations in one entry to make it easier for me).

4. PLEASE include the blog’s URL. If you don’t know what that means, it is the web address up on top of your browser screen when you go to the blog (the one you bookmark to make the page appear again). I need it because otherwise I’ll have to look it up and that makes my job miserable!

5. You don’t have to nominate someone for every category. If you don’t know someone to nominate for each - just leave it to those who know best for that category. Don’t just pick someone to pick someone. We want carefully thought-out and personal nominations so that the really good blogs get a better chance at winning.

6. Don’t obsess. Don’t stay up until your eyes feel like rubber and your back is tingling. This is supposed to be fun… not work (except for me)!

Let the nominations BEGIN!

What’s so cool about the Belated 2006 Homeschool Blog Awards? The blog awards were great in 2005, but this time they promise to be even better. The HSBAwards Team have made some adjustments to categories, added NEW categories we didn’t have in 2005, are offering some awesome prizes for the winners, and we are settling into our new site to house the fun!

Check back often as we announce when the nominations will begin, but for now start searching out your favorite blogs and deciding who you would like to vote for!

Please feel free to SNAG this image and post about the awards on your own blogs. We would love to have as many homeschoolers as possible KNOW about the awards so they can participate and have a chance to win.

Please consider spreading the word!

HOMESCHOOL BLOG AWARDS CATEGORIES:

1. Best Homeschool Mom Blog
Everyone is the best homeschool mom for their own children. With thousands of homeschool bloggers out there, please know that there will only be one winner online – but EACH OF US are winners in our own homes. If there’s a blogging mom out there that has been a particularly good example to you and you want to let her know… consider her for this nomination! [Her blog does not have to be exclusively about motherhood or homeschooling.]

2. Best Homeschool Dad Blog
We love to hear what dad has to say. Especially if he includes homeschool posts off and on. [Blog doesn’t have to be exclusively about homeschooling.]

3. Best Blog Design
Here’s your chance to nominate your favorite blog design and give your favorite blogger a pat on the back for her talent (or give her web designer some credit!).

4. Best Artistic Content Blog
This blogger has an eye-catching and interesting variety of graphics and photos in posts and in the general design that you enjoy. We want to thank those of you who post pictures and graphics that inspire us!

5. Best Crafts, Plans & Projects Blog
Do you turn to the blogosphere for a steady supply of great craft ideas, lesson plans or projects that you can do with your homeschoolers? Why not share your favorite blogs that provide them with all of us and give that person some recognition?

6. Best Family or Group Blog
Nominate your favorite Homeschool Family blog or your favorite group blog that is either run by Homeschoolers or discusses homeschool issues. [Blog doesn’t have to be exclusively about homeschooling.]

7. Best Encourager
It is time to say thanks to those bloggers out there who lift you up out of the homeschool “blahs” and help you get back on track. The winner of this category doesn’t have to be perfect or always in a good mood… just someone who makes you feel as if someone else cares and has a positive attitude overall.

8. ‘Live-What-You-Believe’ Homeschool Blog
A large percentage of homeschoolers are Christians, but this doesn’t have to mean Christianity only. Other religions or even strictly secular homeschool blogs can be nominated here. The person just has to do a good job marrying their faith (or lack of it) with their posts on homeschooling… uplifting others to walk in faith (or lack of it) and blessing others who adhere to that faith (or lack of it). I for one am thankful that we live in a land that is FREE to worship (or not) any way we see fit… and to homeschool our kids accordingly.

9. Best Unschooling or Eclectic Homeschooling Blog
This blogger should have a great variety of ideas and encouragement for those who homeschool to the beat of their own drum.

10. Best Geographical Blog
In 2005, we had separate categories for International and Canada. I felt that was a bit unfair. This time, we are including a category for ANY geographical place that you find interesting. If you are interested in a blog in Russia, Romania, Canada, Turkey, New Zealand, Texas or Washington D.C. – and your favorite blogger from that area talks a bit about that place in-between homeschool posts, PLEASE let us know! Be sure to let us know when you nominate the Best Geographical Blog that you TELL us WHERE the place is!

11. Best Current Events, Opinions or Politics Blog
We don’t want a strictly political blog that is run by a homeschooler unless quite a few posts have relevant information pertaining to homeschooling. News clips that affect our freedoms as homeschoolers and how homeschooling is portrayed in the media are ideal. We love to hear what other homeschool teachers are thinking and reading and their views on things that affect us all. [This blog does not have to be exclusively about homeschooling, current events, or politics… just a blog that often shares opinions on matters that you enjoy learning from.]

12. Best Homemaking or Recipes Blog
This blog should have content regarding homemaking, housekeeping, tips, ideas for making your life easier, information about raising multiple kids, or recipes that you enjoy trying. [This person should be a homeschooler but the blog doesn’t have to be exclusively about homeschooling, homemaking or recipes.]

13. Best Teen Blog
Let’s encourage those young bloggers to speak up and be a good example for their peers. I have seen so many wonderful teen blogs out there that deserve recognition. Let us know what some of your favorites are! [This blog does not have to be exclusively about homeschooling, but homeschooling should be mentioned often or it should be obvious from the template that the teen is a homeschooler.]

14. Funniest Homeschool Blog
We all need a laugh in-between laundry, lesson plans and loosing our cool. It is nice to get your smile back so you can share it with your students (who can only take “so much gloom” as Ma Walton said so eloquently on Little House on the Prairie). Nominate your favorite crack-pot or crack-up homeschool blog here.

15. Best Cyber-Buddy Blogger
A blogger that you haven’t met, but you think you would enjoy meeting and hanging out with. She/he is a person that you would love to co-op with or live next door to. Who knows, maybe one day we will get together somewhere at one of these bloggy meetings I hear about. I’m so jealous!

16. Best Curriculum or Business Blog
Let us know your favorite homeschool business or curriculum blogs so we can read them, too!

17. Best Variety
This blogger is one that could fit in any of these categories … but they just can’t be pinned down in ONE. This type of blogger is the ADD hyper-focused type… always moving on from one thing to the next… and always keeping you interested in coming back for more!

18. Best Thrifty Homeschooler
Most of us are homeschooling on a shoe-string. Nominate your favorite money-saving blogger so you can share her tips with the blogosphere and bless a bunch of homeschool children in the process! [Blog doesn't have to be exclusively about frugality.]

19. Best SUPER-HOMESCHOOLER
Ever feel like a looser after reading someone else’s lesson plans, seeing their field trip photos, listening to them talk about what they got done today, or seeing pictures of their children’s accomplishments? You were probably feeling the effects of visiting a SUPER-HOMESCHOOLER’s blog. These are the A-list homeschool parents that just BLOW YOU AWAY with their enthusiasm. We all have our good days, but this blogger has us all beat.

20. Best Nitty-Gritty Homeschool Blog
Since we included a category for the Super-Homeschooler… I figured we would add one in for the homeschooler who is brutally honest and open about her mistakes and failures. These are the moms that make you feel better and let you know that it is OK that we aren’t perfect. What would we do without them???

21. Best NEW Homeschool Blog
It is hard making a name for yourself in the blogosphere. A lot of times, you feel as if you are writing and no one is out there. If you have stumbled upon a great new blogger who has a lot of potential and you want to share them with the rest of us… please consider nominating them for this category!