Quantity over Quality

Our world has turned into a place where if you can make the product cheaper with plastic c, then you will ditch plastic a. Through all of the changes of making more product for less money we have lost a great deal of quality. Don't assume me to be slamming all companies and businesses because some I really appreciate for sticking to quality.

When I was younger, my parents were not the rolling around in money (and still aren't) but they are happy. I saw they were happy and realized a few things about how my dad did things on the farm as I grew up.

Pins with the Pigs

"I can't find anything on my Pinterest account." Welcome to my life, sweetheart.
Organizing, I'm the organizing goddess. (Not in reality but wishfully thinking.) Friends comment about my Pinterest like "200+ boards, how do you find anything?", "She [Wenya] has the most Pinterest boards",  "I hate going to your pinterest". Well, I love the way I have my Pinterest, I can find everything when I need it. I have no regrets for having 200+ boards.

I Don't Want to be "Skinny"

First, I'd like to apologize for not posting for a month. It's not because I don't love y'all or that we are canning the blog. I have been at musical practice 3-5 times a week since the beginning of February up until this Monday. After that we have four performances, and then we are finished. I'll have an empty void in my week where musical related events were, but life moves on with memories in my heart.

Secondly,

Write

I have what I would call writer's disease. Unlike most diseases, it's beautiful. It's as beautiful as a newborn baby in a mother's arms, the first time you ride your own horse, the cry between two friends when achievement is reached, and the most beautiful view on plant earth. The symptoms of this beautiful disease: writer's block, three million ideas swimming in your head all at the same time, not being able to do anything but write at a moment, and having someone describe it again so you can use it in your next story.

Writer's have a special gift of capturing emotion in their own unique way. I've never met a writer who writes the same as another, similar but never the same. Sometimes we like to tear apart a piece of

A Strong Desire

On this class block morning I'm working on everything I shouldn't be, mostly because I don't feel like working on more pressing things. Like I should be working on studying for my college statistics test today, the final draft of my composition paper due tomorrow, or writing my theology paper. But it's quite obvious to all of you reading this that I'm not working on any of those things.

The last three months of my life I've been questioning every decision I've made about my future. If you don't know me well enough from this blog - I'm the girl with a million flairs. Flairs are a special or instinctive ability for doing something well. If you're questioning my proof, my mom on her Winter Blahs card (she sends our Christmas Card in January) wrote that it would be interesting to see where the Lord leads her. Stating that I don't know what to do with my life because I can't decide what I'll

Bill Nye and Ken Ham Debate

I spent my evening watching Bill Nye and Ken Ham debate creation and evolution. It's incredible what we have at our fingertips on the internet. If you're like myself, an input person (someone who collects various things of interest and stores them away for later reference), you may enjoy the debate. It makes you think some also, but thinking is what keeps our minds active. The first two hours were good, after that I started to force myself to watch. I finished strong so it's all good y'all.

So God Made a Farmer

Dodge Ram's commercial is my favorite Super Bowl commercial of all Super Bowl history. Nothing will ever top Paul Harvey's voice in the midst of that game of football (which most of it I don't see). I don't doubt that most farmer and ranchers feel the same way, and nothing could change our minds.

Dodge Ram's "So God Made a Farmer"

Paul Harvey's Full Farmer Speech

(this isn't the one that played during the

Super Bowl, this is the full length speech)

Change of Heart and Attitude

I've recently come to the conclusion that there's some things about myself that are absolutely down right awful. You might consider it as being too hard on myself, but I'm trying my very best to be a woman of God. I don't just want to just be a classy good hearted cowgirl, I want to use all the potential God put in me to be the best version of myself I possible can before I have twenty years on my bad habits. (Don't worry those bad habits aren't alcohol, smoking, and drugs.)

• Mental use of profanity and vulgar words. Everybody uses them it seems these days, but is that okay? Is it okay to just throw around vulgar words that describe something beautiful between a man and a woman? Every person on this earth came from that beautiful thing called sex, if you

Builds Who You Are

I'm going to tell you something deep down in Yoeli and I's heart. We don't like talking about it because we think about crying every time someone mentions her or we think about her.

Told by Wenya

It was my sophomore year of high school and Yoeli 8th grade year that my grandma died. I can remember every detail from that day like it was yesterday and today is the second year she's been gone. My grandma had by diagnosed with Leuwy Body Dementia when I was in middle school. Luewy Body Dementia is the closest I ever want to be to a living hell again. It puts alzheimers to shame. I don't know if you've ever seen anyone with Alzheimer but they can't remember anyone or anything. Luewy

Why I Wear a Ring

Great title, huh? That's probably why all y'all wanna read it? Well I hoped you wanted to read it because I wrote interesting, fascinating, and fun posts. I'm just teasin' y'all! Anyway, back to topic.

When I first started wearing it, lots of people gave me some awfully funny looks because I was way too young for a ring, a ring on the ring finder that is. But I liked it, I wanted it, I had to have it, and so I wore it right on my ring finger. (Not to mention I was only in eighth grade at this time.) And now y'all are looking at me awfully funny, if you could look at me, but you're looking at a screen with words. I'm done scaring y'all now. So it wasn't an engagement, wedding band, or anything like such. But I did wear a ring on my ring finger. Eighth graders aren't suppose to wear rings on that finger you may say but I will argue against that.

This is Why We Pray

I haven't cried yet, but I might think about it after reading about this whole situation. In Seoul, South Korea, Pastor Lee and his church are doing an amazing thing. They are saving the lives of abandoned babies. How can you save the lives of abandoned babies besides through orphanages whom hardly take children anymore because of overcrowd?

A Baby Box that's how you save babies.
(Image Source)

Be Inspired, "We're the West"

I don't know if we're the West, as the title of the post says, but we're a reflection of what the West was. Many men and women are reflections of it's former glory. I thought I might share with you three of my favorite women who are reflections of the West.

Elizabeth Brannan - She is the most inspiring woman I've ever met. Well I haven't met her, but it sure seems like I have through her blog. The best part about her in my opinion is that she never gives up.
Best beauty: her obsession with red lipstick and her very long blond hair.
Find her on Blog | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter | Youtube

What Happened When I Let it Go

I can't tell you the exact date that it happened, or week for a matter of fact. But, I call tell you the season it happened. Sometime in the summer of 2013 I decided I didn't care anymore. I'm not sure if it happened when I was in Austin, Texas or some other time. The prior school year I had cared so much if I had hurt someone's feelings from my opinions. I cared that I wasn't that hot girl every guy wished they were dating. I had wished I wasn't just in the 2nd quarter of the class, wanting so bad to be in the 1st quarter of the class intelligence. I was sick of my scores in classes that I tried so hard in, and still didn't get the grades I wanted. Needless to say I wanted something that wasn't me. I wanted to be a people pleaser, a Victoria Secret model, and a 4.0 student.

You can't be everything, and eventually I soon decided that I'm not everything. I have my talents, my

I Care, You (May) Care, We Should Care

One of the best I've read:

Sincerely, One of Many Girls Who Care
Written by Anna Koistinen
Found on Anna Koistinen - In the Hands of the Potter

Are you a boy?

I’m sorry.

Not sorry that you’re a boy… That’s awesome.

I’m sorry that you see hundreds of advertisements every week showing half-dressed women.

I’m sorry every time you go to the beach or your neighborhood pool you can’t look in any direction without seeing a girl basically in her underwear.

So Can You

So you think you're not good enough.
You think you're not strong enough.
You think you don't have it in you.

Think again.

Oh Come, Emmanuel

Lindsey Stirling and Kuha'o Case

If he can, so can you.

Forget Resolutions, There's a New Queen in Town

In exactly five days the year 2014 starts. What are your plans? Do you have a new year resolution? If you do have plans and some new year resolutions, I have news for you. You need to throw away the word new year resolution and put the world "plans" in a new place. Take that word "plans" and put it as the first number point under the title Goals of 2014. Now you have the proper set up.

P.S. WRITE ALL OF THIS DOWN. WRITTEN WORD IS WORTH MORE THAN WHAT IS THOUGHT IN YOUR MIND!

On Our Knees

I had planned to blog about Lane Frost and more on Social Grace (see the last Social Grace post), but a new more pressing post idea came to mind when my sister asked me about the "City on Our Knees" song. My sister is the Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood girl, so pretty much like me, all country music. She asked my mom, "Do you know that "City on Our Knees" song?" My mom, being the non-contemporary Christian music momma, told her to ask her sister [Wenya]. I told her, "Oh, yeah I know that song. It's been out for awhile [since 2010]". So I pulled it up for her on youtube, and we listened to Billy Graham do some talking in the interludes. In the beginning while Graham was talking, she asked me if it started with "If you gotta start somewhere". I knew the answer was yes, but for some reason I told her I don't remember.

Anyway, this is for everyone who is ambitious, driven, and feeling lost about their faith.

City on Our Knees

by TobyMac

Music Monday?

Shall I call it music monday? Naow. (I say no odd sometimes.)

Alright, I quit. I'll just share the song and study like a good gal.

I'll study after one side note. Tell me if y'all like 'em. First time I heard them was with Lindsey Stirling (violinist) on a cover of Radioactive. I play violin, so Lindsey is like perfection.

Robertsons, I AM SECOND

If you can't watch all 30 minutes at least watch the first bit with Phil. If you can watch Phil, Miss Kay, Jep, and Reed's good for you. As a young person Reed's was one of the most powerful for me. The story behind the faith of the Robertsons.

"LORD, you know the hopes of the helpless. Surely you will hear their cries and comfort them."                                                                                                 - Psalm 10:17 (NLT)

Social Grace

social grace

noun

the ability to fit into polite society and behave properly and with etiquette

According to glosbe (the only definition I could find), social grace has everything to do with your behavior, etiquette, and fit into polite society. Polite society meaning, I'd say, pretty much everything  the United States and many other places aren't anymore. How come we have taken this turn for the worse? How should I know? I was born at the end of the 20th century. Curiosity killed the cat, you know, it will probably kill me too, eventually. Until then, I'm going to keep on doing the things that