I'm in Wildwood Baby!

I’m coming to you live from Wildwood, New Jersey! Not actually live, but you know what I mean. We got to ‘our’ condo yesterday at about 3:00 p.m. and from there we went to the beach, which is about a 1 minute walk from our front porch. It is so beautiful here! I have to admit, I kind-of hate the place we’re staying even though it’s actually really nice. The best way I can describe my sentiment towards this condo is that it makes me feel weird when I’m inside it. My family doesn’t understand either and they keep telling me to suck it up. Oliver is giving me all this psychological stuff from college about exposure therapy and things.

       Anyway, we can see the boardwalk to the beach and the pier from in front of the condo and the pier is my favorite place so far. There are dozens of little beach shops and tourist attractions, including an amusement park, monster truck rides, antique photo booths and fried Oreo stands. I got some cute sunglasses there yesterday! The beach is really big and beautiful, and so far it’s almost empty because most people are still in school or at work.

     We don’t have Wi-Fi at our condo (which is actually our neighbor’s condo that they have offered us a bazillion times. Only now are we taking advantage of their offer.)  So I’m quickly writing this up at ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­McDonalds. I really wanted to post at least once while we are here (which is until Sunday) and hopefully I’ll get a chance to write at least once more before we leave. I think we’re going to Five Guys today and I’m really excited about it because I’ve never been there. It’s not really a nice beach day unfortunately, so I’m not sure what else we’re going to do later! Tomorrow we’re probably going to the beach and grocery shopping, and Thursday we’re (I think) going to see Mom’s Night Out at the theatre!!!!! I am psyched to see it because the previews look hysterical. Have any of you seen it? Is it good?

     OH MY GOODNESS! I HAVE TO TELL YOU ABOUT YESTERDAY! Yesterday was one of the most spectacular days I’ve had in a really long time for two reasons: One, my family went to Carlo’s Bakery yesterday! Most of you reading this probably know that already…but it was insane! Like Buddy from Cake Boss and The Next Great Baker films his shows there! It was so much fun even though we didn’t see anyone from the actual show while we were there. We got cannolis and chocolate mousse cheese cakes and my mom got this fantastic looking gluten-free cake. Carlo’s Bakery is in the middle of Hoboken, New Jersey and that city is really cool! We got to walk around a little bit and it really made me want to live in the city. It was funny because we were *ahem* mocking the people on the show Cake Boss because of their New Jersey accents and they talk with very…distinct voices I guess. And Buddy Valastro has several phrases that he always uses on the show so we had a good time copying those too!

So that’s the 411 on what’s going on here In NJ! If anything else exciting happens I’m crossing my fingers that I’ll be able to get to a place with Wi-Fi to tell you about it J  To quote Buddy the Cake Boss, “That’s how we do it Hoboken style baby!”

XO Charlotte

This is what you asked for. Except you didn't actually ask...

I said I would maybe do something fun so here is an entire post of music that you may or may not love, and videos to make you pee out of laughter. Not saying I did or anything, nope nope nope. *Shaniqua you know I did*

And now for the music portion of our evening

 

 

 

 

 That last one is better than it looks, believe me.

 

That's it so you're welcome ;)

XO again, Charlotte 

All the Single Ladies: DON"T SETTLE

Some of the things I write about aren't really important. Like not nearly as important as finding the perfect cute outfit to wear to a party, or deciding which kind of cake to eat, or whether to go to a movie or save your money to buy high-heeled sneakers. Because those things are really important.

This, however, I believe is very important.Today's post topic? Drum Roll Please...

DON'T SETTLE!

And when I say "don't settle" I am talking about guys. *I just typed fuys by accident. Yes. I am talking about fuys. hahaha* 

This is something that I have given a lot of thought to, and I apologize ahead of time for writing things that I may have touched on in previous posts...but if it's this important it couldn't hurt to read it over again, right? Right. 

1. God has hand-picked your spouse 

God has the exact person He wants you to marry just waiting for you. He (God) is waiting for the exact right time to put that person into your life. Maybe He already has! You never know! Okay, so you don't want to go trying to pick out your own guy. Let's be real...we suck at choosing things and making the right decisions. This shirt is the cutest thing I've ever seen! It is my favorite shirt in the world so i'll buy it for $32. *And then you get home and you have nothing to match it and you really don't like it anymore* 

     Do you really think you have the ability to pick the actual right person without God? Yeah, sure, there are non-Christian people who are married, some even happily married, but because they aren't Christians their marriage really has no point. I'm darn sure that God does a good job matching people together, and what could possibly be better than spending your entire life with someone that you love and who encourages you in your walk with God? Let God choose for you. Don't try to take over His job.

2. Patience Is a virtue

Waiting stinks. I HATE waiting. I do my nails and I can't sit still long enough for them to dry even though it takes like 5 minutes. And even though I know they'll get ruined if I use them before they're dry...I use them before they're dry and I ruin them. Because I hate waiting. This seems like a bad cycle does it not? 

     To go off of what I said in #1, we really have to use self-control and not market ourselves as 'single and ready to mingle' even if we might technically be. So basically don't flirt and don't try your hardest to attract attention to yourself because that is NOT God's idea for a way to find a husband. 

      Don't you love hearing people's stories of how they met? He bumped into me after biology class in college and he helped me pick up all my books and then we went to coffee. OR I met him at a young adult's Bible study and was the nicest guy I'd ever met. It would totally be awkward if someone asked you and your husband how you met and you were like "umm I flirted with him at school every time I saw him and eventually he asked me out". Awkward. Really, if you're patient God will write your perfect love story and believe me, He doesn't need a co-author. Or a backseat driver.

3. Standards are vital

Standards are one of the MOST IMPORTANT THINGS OF ALL!!! Take notes. You think i'm kidding!? Standards are what determines how far you should go with a guy. I'll get into mine later in another post because as I said, I absolutely can not stress it's importance enough. The danger of settling for a guy who likes you but you don't really think God put in your life to marry, is that you will be very tempted to go farther than you would like to go, or do things you really shouldn't do. If you were with the guy with whom God wanted you to spend your entire life, hopefully he will have the same standards for purity as you do and he won't pester you and push you to do things that are inappropriate.

4. Keep God as your number 1

Until you find "the guy" stay super connected to God. He should be your best guy. If you stray away from Him then there's going to be no way you could know who He wants you to spend your life with. It's not like He's going to text you:

Hey! :) Fyi I saw this guy at your youth group...he's super cute and you should marry him. Ttyl Ily, God <3

 So I'm not kidding, you really have to be "on top" of your relationship with God and talk and listen to Him on a regular basis. Like always. Constantly. Then you'll be able to recognize promptings from God.

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Some of that stuff was a little random, but no less important. I have used the word important WAAAY too many times but I can't think of a synonym right now. You can't settle for a guy who isn't the one God chose for you. I don't mean to dis all guys and say they're all terrible or anything, but i'm speaking hypothetically. He might push you to do things that aren't appropriate, he might lead you away from God and he might just not be that cool. God's pick is SO,  better girlfriend. He's your prince charming.

That's all I got for tonight. I apologize for the total seriousness of this post and the gross lack of gifs, pictures and all things interesting. So, because I love you, I may throw something short and fun together in a few minutes to lighten the mood ;) Maybe. Maybe doesn't mean yes.

XO Charlotte

My brain's blog-post- title- supply is empty.

I did name my blog My Prince Charming because I wanted to give my thoughts on guys, future boyfriend qualifications, dating and things of that nature, but I don't have enough of those thoughts to make all of my posts about those things. So bear with me when I ramble on about random things...I do usually try to give some piece of advice or lesson sort of thing with every post though, and I do plan those ahead of time. It isn't completely random. My process is something like this:

1.Think of a piece of advice/topic/lesson

2. Write what I want to get across about the idea

3. Think of stories or random bits of writing to make it more interesting, or if there's something I want to write about that has no real significance

4. Add in various gifs, songs, pictures or what have you to spice things up a bit or to make me happy depending on my mood

 

 

5. Think of a title. This is way harder that I thought it would be because the title is what people read first and it kind-of can't be stupid or they'll have a bad first impression in their mind if they read the rest

6. That's it

I do promise that I will, as often as I can, post about guys, or tips for having a Godly relationship to keep continuity. I love the word continuity but I don't always know how to use it...hopefully it's in the proper context here...

So for today I basically wanted to make absolutely sure you all knew that I hadn't completely abandoned the original idea for my blog. My Prince Charming, to recap from my introduction post:

Basically I’m going to share some of the things I’m looking for in a guy, some secrets for guys and girls, and some overall advice on how to be a “real guy”… a girl’s Prince Charming. Oh and whatever other random junk I think of to share with you beautiful people.

Random Charlotte fact of the day:

 

 So there you have it. XO Charlotte

Mother's Day Secrets

Play this song while you read the post :) It is such a happy beautiful song.

 

I know that in my last post "(Master of Miracles. Can I get an amen?) I said that I was going to be posting about mothers for the rest of the week until Mother's Day...and that kind of didn't work out exactly as I had planned. I had at least two other post ideas on this topic but I didn't have any spare time in which to write them. This post is going to be about gifts you can make or give to your moms for Mother's Day.

I know it's really last minute because Mother's Day is tomorrow...but in case you wait until the night before like me because you forget...here are a few ideas of things to do for your mom!

Breakfast in bed

Book of coupons . I've done this several times and there are so many things you can do with it! 

Take her out for coffee

Make a note jar

Write a bunch of things that you love about your mom and put them in a decorated jar!

Make a scrapbook of memories

How cute is that? Things you could put inside it are: Notes of encouragement, things you love about your mom, pictures you draw, movie tickets, cards, funny poems, bookmarks, gift cards, coupons, things like that!

Notebook filled with notes

Get a notebook, you can even decorate it if you want, and write notes inside it on random pages. You can print out notes or cute pictures to glue inside too. My aunt made me this once for my birthday and I absolutely LOVED it so much! It was useful because I love notebooks but it was also more personal because she took the time to find things I love and put them inside it for me too look through.

Do a show with your siblings
This is self-explanatory really, but i'll give a few ideas too

Do a show of random stuff with your sibs! Like singing, dancing, doing a skit, reading a story or poem...things like that! You don't have to be good at anything really...but if you put a little effort into it it could be really fun for your mom to watch :)

Buy her a watermelon with a bow on it
I just thought this was cute...so yeah!

Flowers
Give her flowers and she'll do one of these!

That's really all the ideas I have so imma say goodnight! Goodnight! And happy mother's day to y'all mothers. XO Charlotte

Master of Miracles. Can I get an amen?

Mother’s Day is coming up so quickly! So from now until Sunday I decided to mainly talk about mothers.

Mothers rock. At least mine does. This video sums it up perfectly…please actually watch it!

Pretty great right? Being a mother I’m sure is the hardest job! Guys have it easy. (Not really easy per say…but easier I guess.) Okay you know guys say “oh we have to work our whole lives and girls don’t. They have it way easier. Those guys don’t know squat about being a girl obviously. We have to have the kids, raise the kids, cook, clean, and most moms nowadays work on top of all that! So whose job is harder???

I’m trying to think of something interesting to say about moms now…okay here’s a list of my favorite things about moms:

• They make us food

• They do our laundry (sometimes…sometimes I have to do my own :p)

• They can help convince our dads to let us do things like go out with friends or buy new clothes or get a pet

• They take us shopping

• They take care of us if we’re sick

• They tell us when they see a cute guy whom they think we should like

• They also tell us not to like cute guys because guys are dumb (not with those exact words)

• They make us more food

• They drive us places because we *ahem* don’t have our licenses…

And this is one of the cutest things:

 I'm kind of rambling for this post because I have a way better post idea for tomorrow or the day after...and therefore I can't think of much to say today. 

My two tips for you: Call your mom mommy. Or mama. Or mother dearest. Or whatever it is that you called her when you were a little kid. She will love it, believe me! I do every once in a while and my mom always tells people "Charlotte still calls me mommy sometimes!" And sit on her lap. (If you aren't going to crush her hahaha! But I obviously don't have that problem...:p)

Another thing you could do for your mom (not necessarily for mothers day but just in general) is learn a song and sing it to her! Like Unconditionally. I love that song. 

Okay that's all for today except for this:

Masters
Of
Miracles

Try calling her that! Oh master of miracles, can you...fill-in-the-blank? Haha that is so random. I am weird. Can I get an Amen?

XO Charlotte

Pinteresting stuff and why you should go to Walmart

I really like funny stuff. I really. Like. Funny. Stuff.  I've been having kind of a hard week with a lot of stuff so I am so ready for a laugh. Would you like the opportunity to see some of the stuff I laugh at? I hope you said yes in your head because you will get to whether you wanted to or not. I may not comment on all the pictures because I'm having a lazy day. (By the way these are all coming from Pinterest because that's all I really do hahaha) 

How ridiculous does this guy look in a nightgown? A nightgown.  I feel like my wonderful and amazing grandma would do this same thing. I'm pretty sure she has this nightgown...

  I'm trying to figure out how they actually got that out. I feel like that person and I would get along well. Anyone agree?

To all my friends who work at restaurants...please do this at least once.

I am laughing so hard.

That  is exactly what happened when I cut my hair a couple years ago...it wasn't that short but it was the worst decision I've ever made. I looked like a chubby nine-year-old. And no, I wasn't a chubby nine-year-old.

Ellen I love you. And I agree wholeheartedly with her statement. No I don't. Don't be silly.

One of my favorite episodes of Psych. If you haven't watched Psych you really should because it happens to be the best show in the entire world. It has humor and suspense and Shawn Spencer. What is better than that? Besides bacon? Not much.

Smarty pants. Now he really deserves a spank.

I was going to do this and then I forgot.

I thought this was funny because i'm Irish. And because my mom doesn't let us say shut up. (sorry mom... love you so much!)

This should be funny to you even if you've never watched Psych! And in case you're getting super tired of this post that shouldn't really be allowed because all it is is pictures...i'm almost done. Calm your little cute pants down. 

The thought of the sentence 'alright get in the basket' just makes me laugh. It just sounds funny!

So true, so true.

Is it possible to physically die laughing? Because at this moment I feel like I might. Hyperventilating, crying, feeling like I am going to pee my pants and all...

Okay that's all the pinteresting stuff I have for you today. Actually just watch this and that will be all. Jimmy Fallon is hysterical. But anyway, laughter is the best medicine according to the Bible so if you're having a bad day just find something funny to laugh at. Go to Walmart. It really does make you feel better! XO Charlotte

Can I get my friends some snacks?

     It’s May! Happy May everybody! I’m in such a good mood right now! Except that my siblings have decided to have a dance party right behind my chair…Okay is it NOT the MOST ANNOYING THING when people break your concentration when you’re on the computer?! My family should know this by now…when Charlotte sits at the computer, don’t bother her.  But, I am not going to allow myself to be pulled out of the beautiful mood that I’m in right now. No. Not happening.

I’ve spent all morning “doing school” outside on a blanket in the front yard, but I think we all know that it’s really, really hard to concentrate on logic when you’re so warm and cozy on a blanket in the sun…I sound like a cat.

     NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! It’s turning gray out! GRRRR. One of the main things that puts me in a bad mood is gray. You know when everything outside is gray? Like the sun goes away and it seems like it’s going to rain any second? I get so depressed when it’s gray outside. The weather thing on my desktop said it WASN’T going to rain today. No. Stop. Not going there I said.

That is the EXACT face I just made. In case you wondered.

     I haven’t done this yet so I’m going to right now: Y’all should read the blogs of my favoritest writing peoples ever. Our Thoughts are Stars and Jaymee's Jabber. I love reading them so much. OTAS is…gosh. Can you say best idea ever? I mean blogging with your best friends? They must have so much fun! Well it’s obvious that they do. I don’t know (the writers) Laura or Rose but Mercy and Gracie Grace are two of my best friends and I love them to the moon and back. Actually I would never even think about going to the Moon because I would be so scared…but figuratively speaking I love them to the moon and back. 

I have to say something about my friends, while I'm talking about two of them already. Not to be proud and selfish, but I really do have the best friends. Ever. My friends put up with my random ideas, weirdness and lame jokes. They tell me i'm pretty, they invite me over, they share some of the same interests as me, and one of my very best friends is my friend because of Chris Hemsworth. Is there anything better to be friends for? Haha but really, I mean i've made so many jokes about the Mustey/Musty/however-you-spell-it boys that some of you (you know who you are) must be SICK of me by now! But...you don't act like it at least so that's good :)

 I love my friends because they keep me grounded in Christ and...Guys, I would appreciate it if you would tell me when i'm making an idiot of myself! ;) But I really do love all of you so much. So freakin much. 

 This song is for you. (I tried to put up the version without one word that I don't like...so hopefully it's all good.)

 Oh and this song is just one of my favorites right now.

And quick shout out to my friendy-friend with whom I'm STILL PLANNING ON HAVING A PSYCH MARATHON!

 That was for real. XO Charlotte