Braving Mamahood

First of all, sorry about the delay for Relationship Day 5...it snowed and like a child, I played allllll day in it. Real snow. No joke. Okay, for the final installment of this relationship week I really just want to encourage all the "waiters" out there. I myse lf am a waiter. No, I don't work in a restaurant...though my boss is trying to make Chickfila more like a restaurant. I'm a waiter because I'm waiting on God's timing in my life for my own dating season. In my family we were not allowed to date until we were 16 and even then the process to date us was very, very intense . I won't tell you all the things that the guys had to go through in order to get us on a date (if you want to know, just ask) but let's just say that it helped weed out anyone not worthy. And for that I am extremely grateful. Would I have said that 5-6 years ago? No. While other girls around me were dating and had been since 5th grade (hah), I didn't. Well, I couldn'...

If you've known me for a while you know that I have a huge fascination with Cinderella . In fact, I AM Cinderella ...well, that's what the quizzes always told me. Whether you think you're Cinderella , Belle, Ariel, Jasmine, or any other Disney Princess, we all share the desire to be fought for and won over. We all desire that "So This is Love" moment where the world stops and our prince has finally asked us to dance. So many people deem the whole fairytale story in two differen t extreme ways: either they are totally in love with the idea and actually believe it can happen OR they think it's ridiculous and don't hope for that at all. Both logic's are incorrect. Yes, there is an in between and ther e is hope. When most of us think of Cinderella we thi nk of the happy en ding wh e re they ride off and the birds sing and everything is okay. Why do we focus j ust on t he ending and then wonder why we're so impatient with God's timing for b rin...

Happy Wednesday everyone! I thought that we could use the middle of the week to dive into the hardest relationship subject in most people's lives. We're gonna put "hump day" to good use and get over this issue, together. To begin, let me tell you of a conversation I heard recently: Girl 1: Why were you up so late? Girl 2: Well, there's this guy and we've been talking. He is the SWEETEST guy I've ever talked to! So, we talke d until like 1am and then I did my homework. Ha. Girl1: That's awesome! Maybe, he's different from all the other gu ys you've talked to. Where'd you meet him? Girl2: We've never met, but I don't really care because we click so well and he's just so sweet! Like on facebook chat, instead of just getting off and saying "bye"...he actually gives me an excuse like " Gotta run, but stay on because I'll be back in a few hours!". Isn't that just so sweet??We're just friends now but I...

Picture this: Your coffee spilled all over your brand new outfit you bought for your important interview and then the interview went horribly, and then you get a speeding ticket on the way home to your dinner for one . If you can't relate to that, imagine dropping all of your books in the hallway for everyone to see, failing a crucial test, and then your mom being late to pick you up . As soon as you get a minute to pick up your phone, who do you call? Who do you text? Who do you THINK about calling or texting? Who do you depend on to reassure yourself that everything is going to be okay? Don't get me wrong, I love the Lady Antebellum song "I Run to You" just as much as the next person...but what am I saying when I sing that song? As you learned in the blog yesterday, what we sing becomes a reflection of what our hearts mean . So the question for today is: When life becomes a little more than chaotic and you are falling apart, are you running to lower case y -o-u or ...

I declare this week "Relationship Week" for my blog. I've been gathering research and opinions from all sorts of people and I'm pretty stoked to dish out some potentially life changing words this week. I needed to hear everything that I'm telling you, we are in the same boat - remember that. Okay, so today I'm going to dive right in to one of the biggest things I struggle with and most people struggle with subconsciously. This is something that most people wouldn't consider a struggle because it seems so lighthearted and harmless, but if you think about it - it is self-destructive. *drum roll* ....... Musical Dating! (no, nothing like singing songs to someone you like ...*cough high school musical cough*) We all enjoy some lovey Keith Urban songs or ballads from Adele...or for some of you, Jonas Brothers. But, as a single pers on...who are you thinking about when y ou sing those songs ? If you are honest with yourself you will realize that it's q...

First of all, I think everyone needs to take this personality test. It was scar-i-ly true. http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp Secondly, I would like to have that kid's rain boots. Please. Part of my results from the personality test were talking about how I honestly enjoy getting to know people. I love finding out people's likes and dislikes, I love hearing their opinions on all sorts of topics. I love deep, meaningful, chaotic conversations. After reading this I had an epiphany.!!!....so that's why guys think I like them, because I'm so interested in their lives. Eh...so that's why I sometimes find myself running into the bathroom in Thompson to avoid guys trying to be all creepy towards me. Oh...so maybe they're not being creepy after all...maybe their just responding to what they perceive as me advancing towards them? So many times people talk about how girls get so easily lead on, which is so true. Girls, just admit it. But boys get le...

Yes, I'm blogging now.....I know, I know. Don't judge me. I just finished watching "Julie & Julia" and it kind of inspired me to start writing out my random thoughts. Cute movie, by the way...you should watch it when you have a spare rainy day like today. Thoughts for today? Yes, let's go . So I've been t hinking a lot about possibilities lately and how I could pack up everything today and just go somewhere. Anywhere. And it would all be okay. Now if you know me well you will realize that these are crazy thoughts for ME to be having. But I'm young, right? Now after having these thoughts for the past weekish, God's been stirring desires in me to actually follow through with these th oughts. Or to be open to the possibilities He could write for me. Being open to jumping off some high cliffs. *gasp* I know we all talk about how we are "open to what God has for us"....but honestly, are you? I'm not. But I'm closer to complete surre...