Graciously Tenacious

So I have recently fallin in love with crop tops and though in the past I would have never dared to wear one, I have decided to just wear them with confidence. I never thought I had the body type to wear crop tops but if I wait around to have that "ideal body type" I will end up never wearing the clothing that I want to wear.  Today I decided to wear a crop top.  I have gotten over the body type issue but another issue popped up. As I looked in the mirror I saw them...stretch marks. I have always known that I have stretch marks but they never showed before because I was wearing full lengths shirts.  I looked at my stretch marks on my stomach and smiled.  Yes, I smiled.  I love my body, my body type and my stretch marks. I realized that in that moment I made a decision to love myself instead of criticize. I know that this is a daily battle for everybody but how you feel about your body is in your hands, so today look at yourself in the mirror a...

After a week of celebrating the iconic movie Mean Girls and dressing like the characters of Mean Girls, I started thinking about the rules I live by in my own fashion choices. If you are not familiar with the movie, it is about a new student who gets sucked into the popular clique at school and learns about "girl world" and the rules and drama that are involved. In the world of mean girls, they can only wear jeans on Friday, they can only wear their hair in a ponytail once a week and on Wednesdays they wear pink. And if you break any of these rules than you cannot sit with the clique, you are banished for the day. These rules are silly  and controlling but some friends and I thought it would be interesting to live out the rules for a week. As I was following the Mean Girl's rules, I realized that I have been dressing by a set of rules in my real life that I did not set for myself. It was not until I moved to Los Angeles and going through this week that I realized I was ba...

The other day my mom asked  me if I was going to  give her grandchildren. This wasnt the first time she asked and it probably wont be the last. And the answer that I usually give is no. No kids Sometimes I say "I dont know" and that would be the most accurate answer. I am 22, in college, single, and most of all, I am focused. Focused on God as well as my academic and professional goals. I feel like someone is my position, at this point in history,  can say I don't know, I dont know if I even want kids or when I want them. In an earlier time, during the last century, women married young and wanted kids or at least knew that it was in their future. But they also had less opportunities so creating a family gave them purpose and fulfilled the society expectation of women. Today women have different goals and priorites which is OK and really great that women are in amazing leadership roles, great jobs and are pursuing what makes them happy. Kids might not be...

Everyone walks around this beautiful world with expectations, whether we know it or not. When I go to my grandparents house on any given Sunday, I walk up to the door with the expectation that on the other side are two little munchkins playing with their toys, my grandma will be in the kitchen cooking up something good, and the rest of my family scattered throughout the house. When I go to work I expect to leave covered in glitter and gangnam style stuck in my head. Our expectations can be realistic or not and are usually met or surprisingly changed. They are birthed in our experiences or in the experiences of others. If you are lucky you will learn how to be expectationless( I think I just made up a word...just roll with it.) when going into a new culture. I think that I have learned to be somewhat expectationless when I go into a new culture. When I left for Bangkok I tried to be open-minded and as a product I had many wonderful experiences, created amazing memories and made beautif...

So I changed the name of my blog because I have been back from thailand for awhile and I decided I wanted to write about other things. What am I going to write about you ask!?!?!?! Whatever I want!!!!! It will mostly consist of blogs about life with God...that or food. hopefully I can be consistent with this :) Keep an eye out for a new post in the next day or so.