In A Snap

Have you guys seen this adorable little razor?

I was seriously so excited when I got this in the mail for Influenster.

See I travel quite a bit and the question "which razor should I bring?"

crosses my mind quite a bit!

This razor is perfect for traveling with the case to store it in and how small it is!!

If your going on vacation this summer or just taking a weekend trip I would highly recommend

taking the Venus Snap along with you! 

A Little Trip That Wasn't

Right now as we speak I am sitting in LaGuardia in New York City waiting to board a plane back to charleston.
You see I had this great idea about lunch time yesterday that I would go to NYC for the day and once I found out that there was a direct flight from Charleston my mind was made. I listed myself on the flight. Called my friend and we figured out where we would meet up. This morning everything was going smoothly besides the 25 minute delay in charleston. But when we were about 30 minutes away pilot came on the intercom and announced that we were being grounded in DC due to storms and would be there anywhere from one to two hours. My first reaction was panic and get upset because I only had about 4 and a half hours total in the city before I had to head back home. But after we landed I decided I wasn't going to let this detour make me angry. There is nothing anyone could do about it. Weather is weather it's uncontrollable and unpredictable. So for and hour and forty five minutes we sat in the plane. Now you would expect outrage from other passengers but much to my surprise everyone was so calm and no one ever got upset. All the little babies ran up and down the isles, the flight attendants were amazing and gave us endless amounts of peanuts and pretzels, and all us passengers just mingled about this and that. when the pilots came back on and started the engines there was a round of applause from everyone. By the time we landed in NYC it was 1:30. I wasn't able to go into the city because there just wasn't enough time I would have had about 30 or 40 minutes before I would have had to get back on the bus to leave. So now I wait for another delayed flight to take off fighting back the tears of disappointment.
But I am going to choose joy because that's the only thing I can do and on the bright side I was able to mark off "take a spontaneous unplanned trip" from my bucket list!!

Ephesians 3:20

"Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think,

according to the power at work within us"

Ephesians 3:20

it has been a crazy few weeks over here.

I've finished summer school, parents came to visit, 

started training for the Guardian ad Litem program,

and its the first week of school for me.

So needless to say I've been go go go

But its also been such an amazing and encouraging few weeks!

Most of you know that I am going to school to become a social worker.

Well the Lord has really been confirming this for me.

He has opened doors that only He could have opened 

He has continually given me opportunities to grow and learn in this field.

I've always struggled with wondering if this was the plan the Lord had for me

So these opportunities have really encouraged me that I'm in the right place.

I've also begun to see that Charleston is where the Lord wants me to be.

If you had told me that I would be living here and wanting to stay here after college

a few years ago or even 6 months ago I probably would have laughed.

I've always thought I would graduate and serve abroad.

well its funny how the Lord works in your life and completely reroutes your plans

I've developed a love for the kids of Charleston 

I want nothing more than to see them come to know the love of the Lord

and to know what its like to be in a family that loves and cares for them.

The thing is I've only seen their precious faces in pictures and heard their stories,

but they have already become a part of me.

 Its only through God that this love I have for them could have been written in my heart.

Ephesians 3:20 had been a verse that I've repeated to myself over and over again.

The Lord has been faithful to encourage and provide for me 

in way that I never thought possible and in way I would have never imagined.

So I just want to encourage you to ask God to guide you in all you do.

If you already know where He wants you to serve pray that he will give you 

opportunities to grow and wisdom to carry out the task.

  If you don't know ask Him to reveal his mission for you life and
I promise that he will show you His way!!

I hope everyone has a wonderful rest of the week

Where Has the Time Gone?

this time last year I was just settling into a whole new world.

I was starting an adventure that changed my life.

looking back it all seems like a beautiful dream

I remember sitting in the library at my school and crying 

because I was so frustrated with anatomy.

It was in that moment that I knew I needed a break from school.

It had always been a dream of mine to study abroad. 

so the next day I went to our study abroad coordinator and found out the details

and by the end of the week I had a destination picked out and an application in!


from the moment that I arrived in Chile I knew that it was going to 
be an experience unlike anything I had ever experienced.

I've traveled all over through out my life but never for this long and never alone.
I was extremely nervous and scared.
I didn't know what to expect from my host family or the culture.
But my nerves were quickly settled as began to meet other students and settle into my new home.
I was given opportunities to travel all over South America
I saw places I never dreamed I would see like
Machu Picchu and the Patagonia.
I am so grateful that God allowed me these opportunities.
My time in Chile changed me.
I made many memories that I will cherish for the rest of my life.
I made friends who will always hold a special place in my heart
and I meet a group of little ones that impacted my life so much.
It was those weeks of loving on little ones who don't know the love of a family 
that gave me the passion to spend the rest of my life serving 
children who need to be reminded that their loved, cared about and wanted!