I actually got a blog award nomination!

In the Blogosphere, usually at the end of the year, various awards get handed out by various websites, usually through a nomination process--i.e. your blog gets nominated enough, and you get an award. I've never gotten an award. I feel like I have a solid blog, but not necessarily a distinctive one, know what I mean? I don't really care. But for the first time this year, my blog became a sort of hotbed of discussion. It kind of freaked me out a little bit, because I'm not really a rabble rouser. The big discussion was: we got a CI for our deaf 2yo, but we're raising him bilingually/biculturally. He goes to the local Deaf school and we use ASL, as well as jaunting off to speech therapy. we are a hearing family. I have met very, very few people who approach the deaf thing and the CI thing quite like we do. Not everyone--Deaf or hearing--really understands where we are, but we try to be honest.

So I got a blog award nomination from the great site of Deaf blogs/vlogs, DeafRead: 2007 Hearing Ally blog. This just makes my day.

Whoops: it's just award nominations. But still. It feels just as cool.

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Submitted by diber on Mon, 01/14/2008 - 20:01

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Comments

deafk:

Congrats! Is nt it cool to be recognized, eh?

For your information, you were nominated for the award, not getting one yet, smile! I wish you a good luck on getting the award.

deafk

01/14/2008 - 20:20

Me:

Sorry to disappoint you, but you didn't win an award yet. You were nominated. The winners will be announced on February 2.

01/14/2008 - 20:27

deafmegan:

Wish you good luck! My several friends told me about your blog and they like your style...We met each other on a popular deaf online community site deafromance.com. You can get in touch with many deaf people in your area through dearomance...

01/14/2008 - 21:02

Anastasia:

you deserve it! you are a hearing ally. if nothing else, you're educating a lot of hearing people (like me) about the politics of being deaf.

01/14/2008 - 21:16

A Deaf Pundit:

Congrats on being nominated. :)

01/14/2008 - 21:26

Hetha:

Way to go! You deserve the recognition my friend.

01/14/2008 - 21:55

IamMine:

Congratulations! :)

Hope you didn't mind that I was one of the people who nominated you for the hearing category! :D

01/15/2008 - 11:27

mary kathryn:

I hope you win!!

01/15/2008 - 12:21

joel:

proud of you. this blog is a lot less maintenence then facebook

01/16/2008 - 07:36

Jo:

Hurrah, Jnet!!

01/16/2008 - 11:59

mom1:

YEA!

01/17/2008 - 11:33

Michelle:

I just found your blog and I think it's awesome that you got your son a CI AND you are using bi/bi!!
Congrats on the nomination, too!

01/24/2008 - 16:44

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