I've been nominated for the New Blogger Liebster Award

Wow oh Wow - what a nice news to receive this afternoon... Abc123is4Me has nominated our new blog Activities to Teach for a Liebster Award for new upcoming blogs! The Liebster award is a way to recognize new bloggers who have less than 200 followers. Activities to Teach's blog has been up for a month and is just getting going, so Abc123is4me's recognition of us is greatly appreciated and gives up energy to keep blogging!

An extra special thank you to Abc123is4Me for nominating me! It you get a chance, please visit their blog and check out their great posts!

The instructions from Abc123is4Me shared are as follows:

1. Link back to the blog that nominated me.
2. Nominate 5-11 blogs with fewer than 200 followers.
3. Answer the questions posted to me by my nominator.
4. Share 11 random facts about me 

My 11 Random Facts:

1. I was born in Rhode Island, USA but only lived there from 6 months before moving to the West Coast.
2. I have lived 4 countries and 6 states.
3. I have had a part time to full time just since I was 15 years old. 
4. I am allergic to milk chocolate, coffee citrus fruits, wheat, soy, and chicken... makes for interesting meal combos!
5. I dropped out of college at 21 to get married (big mistake)... ended up putting myself back through college part time to full time since 1997.
6. I love animals - from iguanas to dogs (except cats).
7. We have 6 kids only 1 has 2 legs and only 1 gets to go to college! 
8. Two of my favorite actors are Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman.
9. One of the things I love about teaching is being able to be a life long learner.
10. My son is planning to go to college to become a teacher (HS Math and Music).
11. I still have 8 countries I want to go visit and possible live in before I move to Montana to build my school.

Answers to Abc123is4Me Questions of Me: 

1. I work in an international in Central America as a Technology Integration Coordinator. Which means I teacher teachers!
2. Yes, Activities to Teach has a TpT. We have been open for 6 weeks.
3. My favorite product is our 3D Model Maker Series. I like how the students great to create a model and show their understanding. 
4. We have a Facebook page and Pinterest Account.
5. What I love about teaching is how students discover new things and become engaged in a topic. 
6. For me, my greatest challenge is helping teachers finding time to try new technology concepts in their busy schedule. 
7. If I wasn't a teacher, I would be still be an ambulance medic and in the US Army.
8. My hobbies are cooking/baking, gardening, photography, and SCUBA diving.
9. If I had one wish, it would be to have a solution to my funding needs to build my dream school for foster girls.
10. My current short-term goal is to finish my dissertation to earn my Doctorate in Education.
11. My life-time (long-term) goal is to build a school (and home) for foster girls who have not been adopted by age 11 on  150 acres in Montana. 

My nominations are:

1. Create.Educate.Inspire
2. Mrs. Plemon's Kindergarten
3. Diary of a 5th Grade Teacher
4. Teaching HS Math
5. Teachers are Terriffic
6. Rachel's Tutoring
7. Kinder My Way

The questions for my nominees are: 

**Thanks Abc123is4me for such great questions I am gonna use them too!

1. Do you work at a school?  If so, tell me about your position there.
2. Do you have a TpT store?  If so, how long have you had one?
3. If you have a TpT store, tell me about your favorite product you have and why you believe in it so much.Do you have a Facebook page, a Pinterest account, Instagram?
4. What is your favorite thing about teaching?
5. What is your greatest challenge when it comes to teaching?
6. If you weren't a teacher, what would you be?
7. What are your hobbies? 
8. If you had one wish, what would it be?
9. What are your short-term goals?
10. What are you long-term goals?