Harlem Shake Craze

I usually don't know what's trending on YouTube but I somehow stumbled across the silly Harlem Shake video craze {not to be confused w/the authentic Harlem Shake} and have been cracking up! I don't quite understand the videos where people take their shirts and pants off-I skip over those, but I love the ones that make me smile and laugh. Here are some of my favorites so far:

From one of my absolute favorite married couples:

Funny news anchor one:

Dr. Oz:

Adorable father and son:

I just love this college crowd flash mob/Harlem shake in Maryland:

And my absolute favorite one, the puppy Harlem shake version. Love, love, LOVE it:

Reading

I have had an on and off relationship with reading over my lifetime. I remember I loved reading the Babysitter's Club and Babysitter's Club little sister books when I was younger. Then high school hit and I dreaded reading. I only read when I absolutely had to. Like for a class project. Then somewhere in my early twenties I started to like "the idea" of reading that I started purchasing books frequently. But I really didn't enjoy reading as much as I enjoyed "the idea" of reading. I started so many books and never finished them. Books sat unfinished in my room for years. It wasn't until three years ago, when my relationship with God grew stronger, that I fell in love with reading because of all the wisdom I got from it. It began after reading When God Writes Your Love Story. It was the first book I finished reading since high school. It gave me so much hope for my future husband and trust in God to bring him to me at the right time. Hope and trust I never knew about until I read that book. After that book, I wanted to read more and more and gain more and more wisdom. That I started to read the Bible more too. Now I absolutely adore reading. Mainly books that I can learn something from, such as non-fiction books. They are my favorite. I am going to start sharing my current reads, especially the good ones! Here is what I've read recently and reading now:

Rocking the Roles

{picture found via Amazon, read more about it here}

My co-worker read this for a class she took while attending Liberty University and really liked it. So much so that she randomnly brought it in for me to borrow. I had never heard of it before and had no idea what to expect and wow, did I like it! It's very insightful. It really broke down the wife and husband roles. It also made me look at being a stay-at-home mom in a whole new light. Before I read the book, I was okay with being a working mom but after I read the book I really desired to be a stay-at-home mom one day, if and when that time comes. The author doesn't look down on working moms at all, he just makes you think twice about what is best for children.

Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married by Gary Chapman

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I love and live by Gary Chapman's book the Five Love Languages, that any book he writes I'm super eager to read. An old co-worker {not the same one from above} gave me this book over a year ago and I never picked it up until a couple months ago. I really enjoyed it! It was a super easy read and it really confirmed that some of the stuff I want to make sure is right before I marry someone is good. It also taught me a lot about what forgiveness means and that everyone has a different language for apologies. I learned that he wrote a book about it, called the Five Languages of Apology. I quickly added that to my mental list of books to read. I tell ya this man is a genius with his theories. The Five Love Languages is so right on. I have never felt more understood with what makes me feel more loved than when I learned my love language was words of affirmation.

What I am currently reading:

After reading those two books, I wanted to read something fun and light and not so serious, so I started to read my first fiction book as an adult,

Redeeming Love

{picture found via Amazon, read more about it here}

I had heard many women mention how great this book was because it reminds you of how powerful God's perfect never-ending unconditional love is for us but I stayed away from buying it for awhile because I also heard it was a fiction book. But when I learned that it was inspired by a true story in the Bible, I thought perfect, this is the best fiction book out there for me {a truly devoted non-fiction book reader} to read. So far, it has me drawn in and has me wanting to keep reading to find out how it ends. Does Angel finally have a happy life with Michael or not?? Can't wait to get there.

Okay, well it's time to go read some more so I can get closer to finding out what happens between Angel and Michael.

Thinking Twice Before I Post

I am up late.

I should be sleeping because this girl has to work in the AM.

But I started surfing the internet.

If there's one thing that steals more hours from my life than anything else, it's surfing the internet.

I go online with the intention of only checking my email but two hours later I find myself wondering why I am still online.

Tonight was one of those nights.

I randomnly ran across an aritcle about a blogger who has gotten some positive and negative publicty for his blog.

So much so that the Huffington Post is linked to one of his most popular posts.

He recently deleted that post, because of promises he made to his family about what he would share and not share.

His story really got me thinking...

That sometimes the blogging world gives one a false sense of security.

Security to pour your heart out.

I believe there are some things that are meant to be shared only with close friends and family and no one else.

It's not that I want to make my life out to look like it is perfect, because it's not. I'm the first one to admit that. I just want to be careful of what I share especially if it involves other people I truly care about.

I want to share the good work God is doing in my life, so it can be difficult to decipher what needs to be shared to glorify Him and what is best kept between my closest friends and family and I .

So before I post I am going to the extreme of asking myself:

"Is this something I would want the media to publicize for the whole world to read or not?"

I have no intentions of becoming the next famous blogger, I just want to do my best to guard my heart and the hearts of the amazing people in my life.

Because famous blogger or not, you just never know who will stumble across your blog.

Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. -Proverbs 4:23 {NLT}