Vacation Mode

Not even trying to come back home!!!!! 

So about the gym......

I promise you I would work out everyday with these lol!  

#ChanelC's #CCertified #Regulate 

"Where the magic happens"

My oldest son turned 9 yesterday and I cry (like I do every year). He's so smart, witty, sensitive, emotional, mannerly (very much like me #Seriously). 

I remember giving birth to a baby that weighed 1 pound 15 ounces and watching him fight for his life in the hospital. I can so vividly remember the hands of God healed him, from the crown of his head, to the very soles of his feet. I look at him now and I think, how perfect is he?  

His eyes, his smile, his temperament, his skin, his hands, his fingers, his toes......he's all that I could ask for. 

So this year, he's going back to Disney World and I say back because he's been for his birthday three years ago as well but I think this year he'll understand and appreciate it more.  This made me think of Magic Kingdom and all the things "magical" that it portrays and promises us. It's so beautiful in how it was created and all that it offers and even in my adult years, visiting that place will make anyone feel like a Princess. 👑 

However, I'm in covenant with a God that promises more than magic, who shows more than dreams, who brings more to the table than characters.  This God who I am in relation with He heals, delivers, sets free, brings alive, He seperates you from the rest and calls me THE HEAD AND NOT THE TAIL. He blesses and when I'm broken He fixes me up and make me WHOLE! Everything about Him seems 'magical' but He's more than magic, He's real and as I sit here reminiscing on things that I've done so far, places I've been and my life as a whole I realized that no matter what the world promises me, I now know more than anything, not just a promise, but I know WHAT GOD HAS FOR ME AND WILL MANIFEST IN MY LIFE if I keep my side of the covenant that I have with Him. 

He is more than my Mickey Mouse, He is my EVERYTHING! And in Him, is where "The Reality" happens. 

This is a true story..........

Trophy...

" I just wanna take you out and show you off! 

Girl you already know that you the perfect one. 

I done won me a trophy...."

Your eyes........yo eyes........yo eyes they so beautiful

So my nail salon was booked the other day and I didn't feel like waiting so I decided to go to a different one. About 10 minutes away from where I was but in a quaint little town by The name of Riverdale. My doctor is in the same town so I've been to this salon once or twice but decided to go back. 

I know how it is when you're not a regular....they stare, their quiet and some may ask questions so I had already prepared myself for the awkwardness. While in the pedicure chair the lady said very few words to me and was visibly annoyed when I asked her to try on two polishes before I made my decision. You have to know me to know that's what I always do so i tried not to get annoyed with her. She frowned but I ignored her. We finally get to the manicure chair and she looked at me and asked if I wanted a different color again because on my way to her chair I saw another color (for my nails) that I wanted to try. She looked at me, looked at the polish and said "you gettie the pink. That one. It nice" and then she cracked a smile. I realized they are so what trained to be stoic. It's business as usual and we should never take it personal. When I saw her smile it made me feel warm inside and felt a lot more comfortable. As she started to cut my cuticles, she looked up at me twice and kind of smiled a little. I was going to ask her what was it and then she blurted out "your eyes.........yo eyes.........yo eyes they beautiful". She stared at me in amazement. I couldn't understand where it came from but I thanked her with my whole heart. 

I realized that the whole time she had been doing my pedicure and now manicure she kept randomly glancing at me was because she wanted to compliment me but I guess didn't know how to. She saw something in me that I've never seen in myself. A beauty that leaves you breathless and maybe even speechless. Not bragging beauty.......she saw something deeper than I could see. Deeper than I could fathom and again, I couldn't thank her enough. 

As I sat in her chair, I thought to myself how God sees the same beauty in us. He said that we are "the apple of his eye" and our beauty is incomparable. I always think of the scripture when the angels said to Him: "What is man that tho art mindful of him?"  Even the angels cannot understand why He is so head over heels in love with us.........but I know why..........He has created us in His image and our beauty, our beauty is incomparable, We are His masterpiece, created in His image. 

So today...look in the mirror and look at "your eyes.........your eyes they are so beautiful". 

This is a True Story......