I like your smile. Let it stay for a while. =)

 

Did you know that God has a sense of humor? He made you didn’t He!? Haha!

 

This is just a fun blog to hopefully help take your mind of the stressors of life.  I know that many times I get caught up in worry! Often it is that I catch myself worrying about money, grades, relationships, the way I look, what people think about me, not having time to get things done, family, friends, people I don’t even know….. You name it and I’ve probably worried about it before. It’s so, so, so easy to focus on the negative, worry-some aspects of our lives. Let’s face it, we all have issues to worry about. But hey, look at the rich people in Hollywood. If you haven’t noticed it- they have plenty of money, but it doesn’t solve their problems! God help em’!  So what is there to do about “your stuff” that dangles before you, causing you to be filled with anxiety and stress?

 

1)Nine times out of ten we can’t fix the stuff that’s worrying us. ( Yes, I did just make that statistic up.) So what can we do?

I’m only twenty-two years old, so by no means am I an expert on life, but usually when I step back and give my issues to God, it all works out. Now grant it, it sometimes doesn’t work out how I expect it to or want it to, but He gives me an unexplainable peace that can come from no where else. Side note: sometimes I even find myself thanking God for not answering that prayer I prayed! Aren’t  you thankful that God knows best and that He knows what He is doing!? I know that I am!

 

 

2) Learn to laugh…a lot! Smile. Smile. Smile. And when it rains and you fall in a puddle and get mud all over your favorite outfit and get to class late and everyone stares and laughs at you…... Don’t let the little things get you down. Learn to laugh at yourself. Learn that it is okay if you mess up. Learn to not focus so much on what other people think of you. It’s good to be different! And remember that God made you and loves you just as you are! So, if something or someone has pushed you down…..

Take a deep breath. Think about the many blessings that you do have. Say a little prayer. Then, look up and see God starring down at you with His arms outstretched, giving you a hand to lift you back to your feet. Walk through the storm with God.

P.S. Laugh at yourself before you walk in the classroom late. That way, when others laugh at you, it won’t be anything new to you!

 

Enjoy the quotes, some of my embarrassing moments, and some fun pics of my family and friends! 

 

 Everyone smiles in the same language. — Author Unknown

 

Happy man in Kenya, whom I met in 2009.

 

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

— Mother Teresa

 

 

A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive
without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the
memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he
cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made
rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen,
for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given
away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of
yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.- Author Unknown

 

 

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. — Shirley MacLaine

 

 

 

 

Should I claim myself? Haha! 

 

 

Cute guy: hello

Lauren: (insert awkward moment)

 

 Pshhh. No, I did not spend my Friday night  drawing smiley faces on my stomach and attempting to belly dance to Shakira in front of the mirror, all by myself……

 

You might be blond if you get a brain freeze in 75 degree weather while not drinking a cold drink. It will eventually start working again….hopefully.

 

If I had a penny for every time I ran my car into a ditch, the curbs at drive thru’s and banks, inanimate or animant objects, I could buy myself a pony!

 

 Class starts at five after, right? 

 

Getting lost in Rabun or Royston is only acceptable the first seventeen times.

 

 

My little cone-headed sister-cousins, Hannah and Molly.

We still love em’.

 

 

Lauren’s Top 3 Embarrassing Moments of 2010-2011

1) Lauren was in the school cafeteria for  breakfast. The floor was freshly mopped. Naturally, she slips and lands on the floor. But, the bowl full of strawberry yogurt did not…nope, it landed on top of her head. You heard it right, on top of her head! It was plastered into eyes, hair, up her skirt! She smelled like strawberries that whole day and it was very fun watching her walk out in front of everyone covered in yogurt. The cafeteria ladies still call her “yogurt girl.”

 

2) 6 Pm- Lauren looks in mirror, only to realize that she went the entire day with an enormous hole in the back of her jeans, which was very visible and in the perfect place to just look wrong! Later that day, people admit to seeing it but not telling her. That is just cruel! Haha! 

 

3) Bolivia, summer of 2010: Lauren decides to chase pigeons in hope of catching one. She does this in a public place where all the Bolivians look at her and probably think “stupid American.” Pigeons don’t hesitate to poop on Lauren’s head. She laughs as she washes her hair and shirt in the sink of a nearby restaurant.

 

 

 

 Relieving stress in the dorm with my best-friend, Anne.

 

 

 

Okay maybe don’t smile that big. You’ll scare the children.