March update!!!

You know what make me happy, LATTE ART!!!

Birthday Month!!!

Once again, celebrating my last days at sweet 35!!! 

The older I get, the better in life I seem to feel!!! Spiritually, emotionally and physically!!! God has been good to me!!!

Living for God is the best life!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Happy Monday!!!

Happy Monday Everyone!!! Strive this week for excellence in all you do!!!“Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.”  (Daniel 6:3) Daniel was chosen because he had an excellent spirit!!! Never settle for GOOD when you can be excellent!!! Push yourself to develop your character; to be more like Christ. 

" This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." (Psalm 118:24)

♥Mary Frances :)

Happy 4th Of July!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

You know your the ghetto WHEN...

You know your in THE GHETTO...

WHEN...

It's the end of JUNE

and the ice cream truck rolls up

blasting the music to...

RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER!!!

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! True story my friends!!! Happened right here in ARIZONA!!! AHAHAHA!!!

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♥Mary Frances :)

P.S. I believe that ONLY IN THE USA is it possible for people from the HOMELESS SHELTER TO BUY STUFF FROM THE ICE CREAM TRUCK!!! I'm like, HEEEEEEEYYY, can you buy me one too???

Birthday month!!!

Enjoying my last days as...

SWEET 35!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Haaaaaaaaaaapppppy MONDAY!!!!

Happy Monday!!!

Happy Monday!!! Happy July!!! Happy BBQ's!!! Happy Wedding Month too Brandon and Hanna!!! Happy Bridesmaid times to me!!!! Happy AAAAAHEM...birthday times to ME, MJ and S'Martin...Heeeeeeeeeeyyyy I'm turning SWEEEEEET 36 guys...JULY 18th...Gifts and birthday greetings are HEARTILY ACCEPTED!!! Maryfranceswriting@gmail.com (Heeeeeeeeyyy did you know that you can send gift cards through email;) Also, Happpppy HERITAGE to all you guys going to the conference, due to an exciting wedding, I will NOT be there...Think about me though and MISS ME!!! Hee, hee...annnnnnnnnnnnd know that you shall see me again at West Coast 2019!!! Ooooooh annnnnnd Happy weight loss to you and all!!! Oooooooh and Happy 11th birthday TODAY to my little man, the king of my heart and my little prayer alarm!!! I LOOOOOVE YOU!!! 

♥Mary Frances :)

Febuary Update!!!

On our way to ONTARIOOOOO!!!!

For Courtney's SURPRISE 30th birthday party!!!

Listening to Anne of Green Gables on the way!!!

Me freaking out cuz there was snow capped mountains!!!

I TRIED PHO!!!

Sooooooooooooooooooo GOOOOOOOD!!!

Soooooooooo I finally got to used one of my beloved Lush bathbombs...our houses bathtub is just old and ghetto feeling...I can't do that!!! LOL Buuuuut it's a good thing we don't have a nice tub cuz if we did, baths would be in competition with the hiking hobby!!!! AHAHAHAHAAHAA!!!

Sooooooo this was my coffee HEART BREAK, because I wanted latte art...I was literally 💔😝😞

Brandon joining us through facetime!!!! LOL

Literally, THE BEST DONUT EVERRRRRR!!!! 

UPLAND DONUTS!!! 

So Hanna found this place on YELP...which I LOOOOOOVE YELP...

It's this little hole-in-the-wall place that looks super ghetto, buuuuuut their donuts are like, WOOOOOW!!!! For anyone in the Southern Cali area or traveling through, I highly recommend this place! The best one is a WARM MAPLE BAR...OMW!!!! It's worth the pound you will gain!!! LOL

With Simon during party prepping!!!

I escaped the decorating for the kitchen...this is wear I belong...I would rather sweat over a hot oven, slave over the sink then DECORATE...ugh!!! LOL

Getting ready to surprise her!!! 

BIRTHDAY GIRL!!!

CHEATERRRRRS!!!

Annnnnnnnnnd we found a CLEAN Italian market in Upland...BOMB sandqhiches too!!!

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnd in O's world...

THIS IS CALIFORNIA!!!!

The trampoline at the mall and the Jacuzzi!!! LOL 

Saying goodbye!!!

Annnnnnnnnnnd NOW I'm HAPPY!!! 

Beautiful latte art!!!

Prayer Alarm!!!

Have you all ever set your alarm early just so you can get up and pray? I'm kind of a morning person, early to bed and early to rise...sooooo by 7 am I've all ready been up for a few hours!!! bUUUUUUT back in the day, before I was an early riser, I would have to set an alarm to get up early for prayer!!!

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Weeeeeeeeelllllll...I would like you all to meet my little prayer alarm!!! 

YES, a little human prayer alarm!!!

One day when he was over I was in the other room doing something and he was playing, when he comes to me, PRAY Mary??? Now, I had already prayed that day so I was thinking I was good for the moment, so I was like, Oh sure Ray, if you wanna pray, go pray! He looks at me, eyebrows raised and the most serious look on his face and says, "MARY PRAY, NOW!!!" I was like, YES SIR!!!! AHAHAHAAHAHAAAA!!! And we went had us a prayer meeting!!! Because, HEY, you can never pray TOO MUCH and WHEN is ever requested on the job to pray??? I mean, seriously, how cool is that???

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Buuuuuut it never fails when he comes over, he ALWAYS gets in a prayer session.  There have been days where I really did FORGET to pray that day, but because of my little prayer alarm, WE GOT IN OUR PRAYER time!!! It's like there's just a little ticker in him that goes off and lets him know, IT'S TIME!!! If we could all strive and pray for God to put that same ticker in us, that a spiritual alarm goes off inside of us everyday, reminding us to pray!!! It's something I ask God to put inside of me!!!

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Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuut...in case your spiritual ticker inside doesn't go off...annnnnnnd you don't have a human prayer alarm...go ahead and set that PHYSICAL ONE...IT'S TIME TO PRAY!!! 

"Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." (Philippians 4:6-7)

♥Mary Frances :)

Pretty Nails!!!

I REMEMBER the first time someone told me I had pretty nails.

It was during a P.E. class at Desert Arroyo Middle School.

I was in 6th grade.

Standing in line to hit the soft ball.

Suddenly, a very popular girl, standing in front of me, turned and spoke,

"Oh MY GOODNESS!" She exclaimed. "Is that a french manicure?!"

I am like "HUH?! A WHAT?!?!"

(I had NO idea what that was AND I was actually quite in shock that her highness has even spoken to me!)

"Did you get a manicure?" she asks again?

"Uh, no," I say.

"So those are your NATURAUL nails?!?!" She asks in awe.

I think about this for a moment, not to sure what to say.

I NEVER cut my nails.

I NEVER file my nails.

I NEVER clean my nails.

I NEVER bite my nails.

I NEVER, EVEN think about my nails.

I wasn't even sure what a manicure was.

ESPECIALLY a French one!!!

"Uh yeah!" I say.

(Cause my nails are about as NATURAL as they get!)

I am totally shocked when she turns to me in total admiration...

"Oh wow!" She says. "I have ALWAYS wanted a French manicure!!!"

This was the beginning of compliments

on something I could care less about!!!

"Wow! you have SUCH pretty nails!"

"They are so elegant!"

"They look so graceful!"

"They look so healthy!"

"Such a perfect pink sheen!"

"Just the right curve!"

Divine!
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And I am thinking...
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AS IF I CARE about my nails!!!

Compliment me on my hair!

Compliment me on my eyes!

My smile!

My laugh!

My WONDERFUL personality!!! ;)

BUT NOT MY NAILS!!!

And of course the questions...

Do you spend a lot of time on them?

How often do you file them?

Is there a special vitamin?

What brand nail clipper?

WHAT do you do to get them like that?!?!?!

AND THE ANSWER WAS SIMPLE!!!

I DO...

NOTHING!!!

NOTHING!!!

NOTHING!!!

My nails grow.

They break perfectly even across.

Then grow back.

Thats it!!!

And I NEVER thought twice about them!

UNTIL ONE DAY

Oh happy day

A very, very, very cute guy came over to me and casually said...

"Hey, pretty nails!"

My heart started beating faster!

My pulse was racing!

I FAINTED a million times, INSIDE!!!

"Oh, thanks," I said CASUALLY!

And that was it!!!

SUDDENLY I CARED!!!

Shopping time!!!

I went with my friends to the mall!!!

They were looking at clothes for a youth conference.

NOT ME!!!

I was shopping for the PERFECT nail buffer.

I mean who cares about new clothes, WHEN you have pretty nails?!?!

"He said I have pretty nails," I said sighing.

"Oh brother!" said one of my friends.

"We've ALL told you that before!"

"Yeah, EVERYONE tells you that!"

"Yes, I said, but YOU ALL are girls!"

"I have had lots of girls say it before...

BUT the guys have ALWAYS been negative about them...

My brothers say they are gross, they call me "Claws"

Say they are daggers- a weapon-

"YOU NEED TO CUT THOSE!" they say...

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BUT HE SAID they are pretty!!! *SIGH!!!

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AND soooooo

I buffed them.

I filed them.

I noticed them.

I liked them.

I became VAIN about them.

OMW!!! I EVEN kIsSeD THEM!!!

*Gasp!!!

And one,

by one,

they began to break.

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As each one broke, I would think...

God is trying to teach me a lesson.

But still...

I filed.

I clipped.

I Buffered.

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Finally there was ONLY one long nail left...

I should probabley just leave it I thought...

"Clip it!" said my brothers!!!"It looks WEIRD!!!"

BUT instead

I pulled out my buffer.

Just one more time...

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SNAP!!!!

And it was over!!!

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Everytime my nails start growing back...

SNAP!

Gone is the beautiful elegance.

Gone are the compliments.

Gone are the looks of admiration.

In their place is short, stubby little nails.

*SIGH!

AND you know what I'm gonna do about that?!?!

NOThING!!!

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I don't cut them.

I don't file them.

I don't buff them.

( I do clean them now...I mean...LOL...)

I DO NOTHING!!!

You know why?!?!

CAUSE...

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I DON'T EVEN CARE!!! =)

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Pride goeth before destruction,

and an haughty spirit before a fall.

(Proverbs 16:18)

P.S. THANK GOD he didn't say I have pretty eyes!!! ;)
P.P.S. And after all these years, they are finally getting pretty again...and I still don't care!!! 

♥Mary Frances :)