Lavish Empire

I am looking forward to the New Year with new designs to come out with and create. I want to keep up with the newness.

My name is Carson!!!

 It's amazing how fast babies grow in a blink of an eye. Many have seen me post pictures and post things on my facebook status about my baby cousin Carson James Krebs aka C.J. I am not afraid to say, I AM  A SUCKER FOR BABIES. I've always have and always will be. I have to say this young fella is a blessing from God. He is so smart to the point he picks up on everything and follows your every move with his gazing eyes. I can't wait to see what he will become in the future.Like the old saying, "It takes a village to raise a child". I know our village will keep him on the right track with all the love we shower him with. I love him so much because he is one of the coolest babies ever. He only cries when he's hungry or wet. He is just an all around chill baby, who likes to watch investigation and court shows. He might be a lawyer, doctor, artist, scientist. Whatever it may be it will have to do with something that has to do with detail. I'm sure people are like how do you know this? Carson, whisper and tells me as he drools...LOL

Children

 

     

     I want to start off by saying, MY ABS HURT. Thanks to my sister "Killa Kat Brown". I know this topic that I am about to type about has nothing to do with what I am about to spill my soul on. I just want to give you something to laugh at before I dig deep on how I am feeling.

      These children above are my beautiful, smart, intelligent, and outgoing cousin's. At the time I took this picture they were 5 and 6 years-old but now that three years has passed they are now 8 and 9 years-old.  It's amazing how children grow in a blank of an eye. It was like yesterday, they were wrapped in a blanket, spitting bubbles, learning how to crawl, sit-up, walk, run, talk, and becoming picky eaters. Well the being picky part, has not changed a bit, it just has expanded to a variety of other things which shows growth in them becoming into their own.
      I  feel that children are great teachers. They are very observant and knows when an individual is genuine or when a person is not being themselves because of one's body language and approach. From my experience with working with children for numerous of years, I have learned so much from them on how to be patient and how to show compassion in my approach because you never know what a child may be going through or what their home lives are like.
      The best thing a person can do for a child is show interest and listen to them. All children want is for someone to love them and give them positive re-enforcement. This type of positive feedback can better help build a child's self confidence as well as their self esteem. Motivation is key because you have to keep on building them up to the point that they believe they can do anything. My wish one day is that parents, teachers, and volunteers who work with children stop going by what the books says and start being creative by learning how to play around with different strategies to spark a child's interest when it comes to learning, because everyone learns differently. THE CHILDREN ARE THE FUTURE and the future are the children. Continue to show love, compassion, and share your wisdom because if you are able to leave an impact on one child's life, YOU DID GOOD.

                One day my dream will become my reality. I was always told you have to keep working at what ever goals you have set for yourself no matter how hard the struggle may be. Just because one door closes don't mean that your life and dreams are over. We have to continue to move forward and find other avenues to try to meet those goals. There will always be people that will rain on your parade and think that your dream is just foolishness and that you are wasting your time.If it was a waste of time it wouldn't be a dream that will be fulfilled. People need to learn to respect the fact that what a person desire to do makes them happy so why not support them.

Make Me Think!!!

I have to write about this because if I don't the feeling is going to eat me whole.I can honestly say I am still stunned and has many mixed emotions about seeing a classmate of mine at Safeway on Fruitvale Avenue today to whom I was once close to strung out on the street selling her body. I think she was ashamed that I approached and hugged her because I am sure many have criticized her on why she is out on the street but if she would know in my mind I didn't care what she looked or smelled like because in my mind she is still a human being so who am I to judge her or her circumstances. She couldn't look me in the eyes when I was talking to her.  I told her to take care of herself and she walked away in seconds.

. This was a girl I semi-envied because she had two hardworking parents and traveled to many places in her young life. From the looks from an outsider looking in she had what I thought was a great upbringing and very church oriented. Today to see her life in a shamble like this just makes you wonder, how could this happen? But in reality, these things do happen because sometimes when families give their children too much and  they don't perform or

meet their parents

expectations these things happens. In order to prove to others that they can fit in they seem to be more attracted to the crowd that it totally different from their upbringing which consist of morals and values that were set by their parents. I'm not mentioning her name but I could tell you one thing she was able to get whatever she desired and I never heard her parents ever tell her "NO" even when she did something bad or even acted up in school she could play her parents like a fiddle. She was  the youngest out of her siblings like myself. She always had the latest shoes and wore her hair long with china bangs which was becoming to the shape of her face.

I remember I met her in 5th grade she was sort of an extrovert, but sort of a brat too sometimes when she couldn't get her way. She and I became friends instantly, because we liked to play all kinds of sports from kickball, basketball, and running just for fun even though she would always beat me just by an inch.  There were many instances where she and I bumped heads and had arguments over silly things but there was one incident where she spit in my lunch because I wouldn't give her a piece of my sandwich and I damn near beat the hell out of her by pounding on the top of her head and didn't not know she had a heart condition because at that time I didn't care because she did one the most disgusting thing you could ever do to a person especially, when it comes to their food. I eventually, apologized for my actions because my intentions wasn't to go all crazy like that but to let her know I'm not the one to mess with.

It is true, when you whoop somebody's ass they won't forget you because when we reunited at Skyline that's what she talked about was our fight we had in elementary school.

But to see her today, it made me forget all the negative things she had ever said or done to me in the past because I was always taught we should forgive and not hold on to the past but, have compassion because we are all one foot away from being in her situation of being out on the street. If you see someone you know or don't really know, reach out and give them some "HOPE" by saying a kind word to them because we are living in a society where we don't take the time to absorb everything that is in our surroundings because we are constantly, being selfish without knowing it. We are put on  Earth to serve a purpose in some kind of way even when we don't know what it is. We are each others tool. We are no better than each other, so we sometimes have to put our egos aside and become a true human being that has love, understanding, and compassion,. I made my peace by reaching out and not acting like I didn't know her because any other day I would had done that, but I am glad that I didn't. I feel better now.