BRING IT ON. This year I will be South Africa's Top Mommy Blogger. YES.

Hello hi! Guys thank you SO FREAKIN MUCH for nominating me as one of SA's Top Mommy Bloggers. Raising Men has made the top ten list - hells yeah! I feel all toasty knowing that I'm up there with some of SA's (truly) best moms who blog like Stacey, Sharon and Celeste. Every single blog nominated is beautiful and authored by someone talented, dedicated and creative! I love that we're celebrating family focused blogs, and I LOVE being a part of all of this. HOWEVER, I did notice a few seriously great blogs that are NOT on this list. 

If you have not made the top ten... who cares? Keep writing, documenting, photographing and being great. A blog should always only be for YOU. If other people recognize it: great, but if they don't: so what? At the end of the day when everyone has come and gone, it is still you in the room alone with your blog. It is YOURS and nobody can take that away from you. Ever. Well - maybe hackers and internet creeps, but ALMOST nobody can take that away from you. Promise. The top ten list was generated from the most amount of nominations received and not EVERYONE hustled and internet-begged for clicks.

 

Guys I have come second in this competition every year. I'm not going to sit here and lie to your nice face and tell you that I don't ever want to be first. I'm not doing to tell you that it doesn't matter. That I'm not important. I like to win things and be the best at something. Anything. I am quite needy and I do require approval and reassurance that I am good at this, that I have a little bit of talent or that I'm interesting or have nice hair and that it doesn't matter that I'm getting a little bit fatter every day. PLEASE SAY NICE THINGS ABOUT ME ALWAYS AND EVERYBODY MUST LIKE ME. 

Please go vote for ME to be South Africa's Best Mommy Blogger. Even if I'm not the best, just close your eyes and click click click over here: VOTE FOR TASH Do NOT stop and hesitate and click on the other blogs. I can already tell you that they are ALL amazing. They are all nice people. Their blogs are ALL very nice. Do not be fooled. They are trying to trick you with their awesomeness. DO NOT FALL FOR IT.  Be strong. Vote for Tash *pom poms*