Thank You 31, Hello Confident Age OF 32.

Happy Birthday To ME, Today I turn 32 years old!!!! It feels like it was just yesterday I turned 16 years old celebrating my birthday at BBQs in the city with all of my friends, Time Flies! Before I write about what I wish for being the beautiful age of 32, I have to say THANK YOU to 31. The Journey, this past year has truly been one of the best years of my life. 

Being 31 years old was truly an amazing and remarkable age for me, not only did I become a mother to a beautiful baby boy but this was also the age where I allowed myself to grow, to learn and not be afraid to do so and also did some self improvement. I knew that becoming a mother, I had to change certain things in my life and I had to improve myself as well as those changes so I can be the best mother that I can be for MJ. It wasn’t an easy road but it was absolutely worth it. I wouldn’t change anything because everything that was meant to happen, happened. It was all in God’s plan and Iam thankful for every lesson learned and for things that I used to be blind to allowing me to really see things for what it was. 

I blossomed into a beautiful flower, yes I’ve always blossomed and wore my crown very well but with this age it was just different and it felt better. In life there will be many stages that you go through  but you can’t allow those stages to break you or define who you are. I learned that the most this year and realized that no matter how much I wanted things to change or things to be, GOD WAS IN CONTROL. I learned to let things be and what is meant to be, it will always be. 

For my confident age of 32, I just pray for continued success, happiness, love and wealth. This year is about setting goals and accomplishing them all. This year is about traveling more, experiencing more, saying more YES and Less NO, having more faith, growing more, loving myself more while being truly happy within myself and just being the BEST mother, daughter,wifey,sister and friend that I can be. Iam going to make 32 be better than 31, Iam claiming it. I won't let anything or anyone disturb my growth and glow, I worked to hard as well as pray day and night to be where I am now in life. I just want to keep on getting better and richer( richer with life,family,love and happiness). 

Iam truly blessed and grateful for it all, I just want the best for myself and I know with prayer and hard work, it will happen. 32, let's kick ass and smile through it all. There will be a few bumps that will come but we will overcome everything that comes our way. Let's make this a magical year and have the time of our lives.

                          

                          A Confident Love from me to you.

                                         xoxo Yanika


     ( ALL PICTURES TAKEN BY YESSENIA D. @oooh_yess On IG)

Pay Attention & Listen.

Since Friday something has been telling me to write this blog, I usually look for topics that I can relate to or things I went through in the past to write about. 2 days later on this beautiful Sunday afternoon at 3pm, that something pushed me to get my laptop and start writing. I had NO EXCUSES to not start writing  especially since Messiah was sleeping. That something that was telling me to write this blog was God, Yes GOD! That little voice that you hear inside of your head 9 out of 10 times is God but of course at times we don't listen to HIM.when things got rough, I wanted him to know that Iam grateful for him through the good and the bad. I wanted to dedicate some time during my day where it was only for him. Yes praying can be part of it which is something that I do everyday but I wanted to do something else, something a little bit more.

Heather Lindsey is her name and I've been following her for the past few years on Instagram, she is a preacher, mother,wife and LOVES JESUS. I admire her and she is definitely an inspiration to me to follow my heart, make my dreams come true and be the best mother to Messiah. On December 30,2017, she posted how she was starting her Journal challenge once again, I read it and bingo there was my something else to dedicate more time with God. The purpose of the Journal challenge was to devote sometime each and everyday and write to God while emptying your heart to him. It was perfect, I love to write and to write to God about my troubles, my concerns, my achievement and much more was exactly what I needed to do. I emailed Heather and told her I wanted to join, the next day I was in her challenge.

Picture Taken By @oooh_yess on Instagram 

Since January 1st, I've been writing to God. I devoted 10 mins of my time ( for now) to write him a few sentences on what is in my heart. I must admit it is one of the best things that I devoted my time doing for Myself. It is important that we be grateful for it all, it is also important to Thank God through the good and YES ALSO THE BAD. I know things happen that you question God, WHY? Why am I  going through this? Why Me?. I've been through it but I realized that each and every time I go through something where I feel that my life is over, God picks me up and deliver something much bigger and better. I've also realized that he removed me from certain situations that wasn't benefiting to me and he actually saved me.

The thing is whatever it is that we go through in life we never really know if it will happen and when it does happen, we are asking ourselves a million questions but never take time to see the good in the bad. Iam guilty, something happens, I start crying and  keep those negative thoughts in my head. I learned to listen to the voices of God as Iam going through what Iam though and to just be patient. It's a reason to why this happen, of course we never know the reason to why it happened at that very moment but eventually weeks, months,or even years later the answer to our why is revealed.

This is why you need to just listen to the voices in your head and take a moment to acknowledge God and his presence every chance you get. Don't wait until something tragic happens to pray or acknowledge him. It doesn't have take a journal to dedicate some of your time to him. find what works for YOU. Heather devotes 45 minutes to an hour to God and sometimes she can go up to 2 hours as where I devote 10 mins for now because I plan on devoting more time to God, he deserves it and I  need it for my heart and soul. 

You have to find what works for you but no matter what, PAY ATTENTION and LISTEN!! There is a message in everything that we go though, we just have to once again LISTEN. I plan on listening  and trusting God more. I have faith and I know that everything that I go through good and bad,
I will grow from it and learn a valuable lesson from it as well.


                             

                                           A Confident Love From Me To You
                                                         XoXo,Yanika