MAD Blog Awards 2013 – the Final

The nominations are in, the votes have been counted and the finalists announced.

And, to my absolute delight, the ‘Best Dad’ blog is through to the finals in two categories – Best New Blog and Best Writer.

Before I drop a gentle hint about voting for the blog, I just want to say thank you for all the nominations, messages and feedback. ‘Best Dad’ has only been live for a little over six months and the response in that time has been fantastic. Actually, several degrees beyond fantastic…

So to everyone that engages with the blog and comments on a regular basis, thank you.

But enough aimless chit-chat. Here’s the link to this year’s voting: if you’d vote for ‘Best Dad’ I’d be enormously grateful.

However, I’d be even more grateful if you’d read all the blogs before you vote. Yes, I want people to vote for me – but I want them to vote because they genuinely think that ‘Best Dad I Can Be’ has the best writing, or is the best new blog.

‘Best Dad’ will always stand or fall on the quality of the writing. I don’t want to win because I have the most friends on Facebook, the cutest kid holding a ‘Vote for my Mum/Dad’ placard, or because I’ve spelt out ‘vote for me’ in toast.

So there you go. I’d like to win, but I’d like to win for the right reasons.