First of all… Happy Mother’s Day to all those wonderful moms’ out there, starting by my own❤️ You’re the best, and soooo thankful for everything you do and your beautiful example and love for Jesus 🤍🤍!!!
Now…. Wow I have not written here in a looooong time! Whoops! It’s been a BUSY CRAZY past few months, and I’d considered just letting this blog go altogether… I have continued writing, a lot actually, but had gotten lazy on actually editing it and typing it on here… but…. welllll I Am Back :)))
I am really going to try to be much more consistent on writing, and I also want to add some photography bits and other ideas 😋 so stay tuned!!!
I am still not sure which days I’ll be posting, it might end up being on random days… nevertheless….
#1. Thank the blogger who nominated you and link back to their post.
#2. Answer the fourteen questions listed in this post.
#3. For any questions where you choose to share YouTube videos, try to stick to one (1) embedded video to avoid overwhelming readers. Feel free to add links to additional videos directly in the text.
#4. Nominate at least three (3) bloggers for this tag.
Let’s get started!
#1. Do you like listening to music?
Yesss, and I could spend the whole day listening to it if I could 😅
#2. What song’s have you been listening to lately?
Lots of Upperroom (Give Me Jesus, Move Your Heart, Pure, Eyes Locked on the King). Also Indie, like John Mark Pantana and Lizzy McAlpine. And Jess Ray songs.
#3 What is your favorite genre of music?
Indie, Folk, Pop
#4 What is your favorite song?
This is such a hard question! But…
Give Me Jesus by Abbie Gamboa/Upperroom.
Dad Song by Abbie Gamboa.
In the Same Boat by Lizzy McAlpine.
Cry of David by Kendrian and Lauren Dueck.
Everything About You by JoHanna Romero
I Want To Burn by Mya Russell
I don’t write enough songs by Jeremy James Whitaker
See You Later (10 years) by Jenna Raine
#5 What is your favorite instrument?
Piano and guitar!
#6 Do you play an instrument? If not, what instrument would you play if you could?
I play piano, and i’m trying to learn guitar loll
#7 What kind of radio do you prefer to listen to?
I don’t really listen to the radio
#8 What kinds of apps or PC programs do you use to listen to music?
Spotify and YouTube
#9 Do you like making music? What software do you use for composing/creating music?
Yes I love writing songs!!! I use my piano and voice and use the Voice Memos app on my phone lol
#10 Are there songs that remind you of people you know?
Carried Away by Shawn Mendes reminds me to a friend of mine because he used to sing it a lot. And Rewrite the Starts reminds me of another friend. And whenever i listen to instrumental music I think about my sister because she loves instrumental ☺️
#11 Are there songs that make you think of a color?
Something in the Orange, (self explanatory haha) and just whenever I listen to instrumental it just makes me think of like the color of the sky lol
#12 Are there songs that evoke a particular emotion in you?
Yesss when I listen to christian songs, I’m just overwhelmed with awe and love for Jesus. And when I listen to hype songs, i get super happy and crazy lol… and sad songs make me sad :))
#13 What two genres of music are your least favorites?
Rock, and most Country loll
#14 What song (s) would make up the OST (original soundtrack) of your life?
It Is what It is by Jenna Raine and I want You Most by Olivia Buckles
This summer was amazing! So many incredible memories with incredible people 💕
I really saw the Lord move in a new way and felt His love like never before. I made a lot of new friendships I know will continue to grow as time passes. I had a lot of sweet conversations and so many fun times.
This summer will be unforgettable and I can’t wait to see what the Lord has in store for this next season. 💛
Now without further ado: my 2023 Summer Dump!
Cool watermelon on a hot day 😋
We love sunsets 💛
Trees and fresh air 🌳
Reading Outside ❤
🌳☀️
Fourth of July 🎆
Volunteer work at a kids summer camp 💕❤️
Summer Camps!!!
More Summer Camp Fun!!! #awakeningteencamp
Zoo Fun!!!
More Zoo Fun!!!
Reading Outside ❤
Yummy Coffee Drink 😋😋
Found a “Lucky” Clover(at least I think it’s a clover loll)Flower Fun with Family ❤️🌸Beautiful Sunflower 🌻Coffee and Friends <333Lake Day Fun with Youth Group 💛At the Pool ☀️💛💙
Then, add a question of your own! (After it gets to about 10-12 questions, start with the first original three and then start from the beginning for the adding your own question.) Use a W to start out your question.
Tag at least three people.
~What is the thing you look for most after summer ends?
Fall weather, chai latte, pumpkin decorating, Fall Retreat (with my youth group). Rainy days while reading inside. Soft music, candles, coffee and hot chocolate.
~What is an activity from the summer (that you can’t do in winter) that you will miss most?
Going to the pool, camp
~What is an activity in the winter (that you can’t do in summer) that you love to do most?
Snowmen, and snowball fights
~Which one do you do: listen to Christmas music after or before Thanksgiving, or do you even start in July (or some summer month)?!
After Thanksgiving
~Bree’s added question: Would you prefer the short sleeves of summer or a nice cozy sweater, and do you mish-mash each season’s clothes, such as wearing a t-shirt in winter?
hmmm it depends, I really love sweaters though,
and yes I do mix and match 🙂
~Tori’s added question: Which one do you like better – Winter or Summer?
summer for sure!!!
~Anaiah’s added question: What’s your favorite summer drink, and what’s your favorite fall drink?
Weelll again super hard, but right now in summer I’ve really just been loving a nice, full of ice, fruit smoothie. (not trying to purposefully rhyme here haha) I had a really good strawberry one at Dutch Bros the other day so that’s probably my top 😋
hmmm, probably early in the morning (6-7 am, I find it hard to wake up that early though 🙃 I’m really trying though) and also 9 pm, because it’s like my “quiet time”where I spend time with Jesus 🤍
“One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.”
So this is my first time doing a book tag, but it looked fun so I decided to do it 🙂
I don’t know who the original maker of the tag was. but I found this on the A Bit of Everything Blog .
So let’s get going 😁
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5 Books You Love
Chasing the Shadows by Lynn Austin
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Anne of Green Gables (the whole series :)) ) by L.M. Montgomery
The Penderwicks series by Jeanne Birdsall
Its was hard to choose just five… I could go on and on lol
4 Autobuy Authors
Jane Austen
Jeanne Birdstall
Janette Oke
Lois Lowry
3 Favorite Genres
Historical Fiction
Biography
Fiction
2 Places You Like to Read In/At
My bed at night with rain sounds or soft classical music
2. Outside on a warm/ breezy day on the grass with a tree over head
I love imagining stuff while I read so having music or the breeze in my face really helps lol (iykyk 😉 )
1 Book You Promise to Read
A Chance to Die by Elisabeth Elliot. It’s a biography based on Amy Carmichael’s life. I’ve had the book on my “to read” shelf and I keep postponing reading it…. But I really want to read it!!!!
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This tag is open to anyone who wants to do it! If you decide to do it tag me on your post so I can see when you do it!! 😁
Hello everyone! Can you all believe that Christmas is less than a week away??? So so exciting! December has gone by so quickly. Anyways I thought that today I’d talk a bit of some Christmas traditions my family and I have.
One of our traditions is to read a Bible passage about Jesus’ birth on Christmas Eve night. And then another one on Christmas day.
The second one (probably my favorite) is doing Parrandas… so what is a Parranda? In short, it is the Puerto Rican (where I am from), version of Christmas caroling. We sing traditional Puerto Rican Christmas songs and people play guitars, tambourines, maracas, guiros, and cuatros, (the cuatro and guiro are two traditional Puerto Rican instruments).
Guiro
Cuatro
Again much like caroling the people go door to door, singing and also dancing.
Anyways another tradition we have is making Puerto Rican desserts. Tomorrow I’ll be posting recipes of some of them.
Our other tradition is Kings Day on January 6th. Kings Days (Or “Dia de Reyes” as its officially called) is a Latin American Holiday. Kids are told to put grass in boxes (or shoes), and put it outside, because that night the three Kings and their camels are coming to leave presents, (similar to the Santa Claus idea). Our family has never done Santa or the three kings, but we still think it’s a fun tradition, although we all know its our parents giving the gifts, lol.
The Ramblings of a Jesus Crazy Girl 