Everyday Mommy is hosting the First Annual Hidden Treasure Blog Awards. She writes:

The idea is simple; to recognize blog authors of excellence, with deserving posts which may go unnoticed.

All of us have our favorite blogs, the ones we read faithfully. They are dear friends, like a comfortable pair of shoes, perfectly broken in. But, we can also find ourselves in a rut, reading the same blogs week after week, and overlooking those hidden gems which may require a little more digging. But, as my mom taught me, anything worth having is worth working for.

The categories in which we can nominate posts are: Children & Family, Faith, Marriage, Motherhood, Homemaking, Humor, Current Events and Life.

More details about this are here. Nominations continue through Feb. 7; voting begins Feb. 8. Information about how to nominate is here.

I hope you will help bring some of your favorite, off-the-beaten path bloggers’ posts to light. I haven’t quite decided on my nominations yet — I know at least one of them but I am still pondering the rest.