My facial expression tells what\’s going through my mind a lot of times. Sometimes I sit back and think about people and why they act the way they do. Im so far gone with it, that I can actually sit up and pick up argument with myself, on something that is just a thought. I have to catch myself and laugh.

My bestfriend is having a BD party to celebrate her 39th, and she is having the party at a place that is a hole in the wall. I told her that she is classy and has friends that dont like the neighborhood, but she insists on having it there, because she can get it for free, and that she can go all out on her food. Well, when I reminded her who got their cars broken into, she paused for a long time on the phone as if I was \”spitting\’ on her party. She got quiet. I had to start the converstaion back up. I really don\’t want to go. I don\’t want my car broken into, or stolen. It has happened too many times, too many years in a row. But if I dont go………………………………..well thats another story.

I found out that the closer you are to a friend, sometimes the less truth they want to hear from YOU. I found that when Im less close to someone they will listen to everything you say to them without getting offended, but let their bestfriend come along and tell them that very same thing I told them, they would take it ANOTHER WAY. I study people a lot and I pay close attention to how they think. Thats deep.

In the next few weeks Im going to be pushing Tyler Perry\’s Daddy\’s Little Girls. It hits the theaters Febuary 14, 2007 and its going to be good! Yall know I am a Tyler Perry fan to the end. He is a dear friend and I love him . ( Smile GHH)

If I died to day, my only prayer would be to please build a relationship with God. He loves us, and he wants to have a relationship with him. He will tell you things, that no one could. He will be there for you at all times. He will direct your path. Im asking you to trust him today. All you have to do is speak into the mike he is ALWAYS listening.

Take care God bless you all

Cree

CREE

Today this lady and her grand daughter ( white gurl) came through my line, and when I saw the grand daughter who looked about 10, I noticed that something was deeply on her mind. My whole attitude changes when I see kids. I love them so much.

So, I said to the young gurl, heyyyyyyyy boo how are you? She looked up at me and said HI. I said boo whats wrong, I can tell something is on your mind. She said how can you tell, my own mom don\’t know. I was shocked that she said that in front of the lady, and she was too. So I said whats wrong are you okay? You can tell that she wanted to tell me, but her grandma was there. Then her grandma said, when she gets home and play her games, she\’ll be alright. The gurl looked at me again and said how do you know something is on my mind…….my own mom don\’t know.

Kids don\’t come with instructions Part 1

When Neisha was growing up, I promised myself that I was going to try to be in tune with everything that she does. I studied her moods, her ups and her downs. I tried my best to know when she\’s going through something. Everyday when she came home from school. I watched her every stop. To the kitchen, to the bedroom to drop her books, to the phone to call her friends, bathroom, rather or not she went in her room to stay. I watched and noticed everything about her.

That was my way to keep communication open . When kids go through something and the parent don\’t notice…………THAT\’S LIKE A BLOW TO THE HEAD TO THEM. They expect for you to know when they are acting different. Sometimes kids just wont/can\’t go to their parents and tell them what is bothering them. And there is nothing wrong with that, Because as parents, we have situations where we don\’t always go to our best friends, brothers, mother, father or sisters either.

• pay attention to your child\’s body language. When they come home from school pay attention to their facial expressions, and their ROUTINE.
• try to have the same routine in your home daily, so that you will be able to tell \”whats different\” in them.
• listen to your child, even if you don\’t agree with what they are saying. Let them get it out……………………..THEN……………………comment. That is a way of showing them that you ARE LISTENING to them. Sometimes kids just want to be heard.
• Make sure that your child see /hear you say to others \”gurl let me call you back, I gotta talk to my \”baby\” right quick. That is showing them that you are putting all things aside and focusing on them.

The one mistake I made many times raising Neisha, is when I forget that I was a child too. I would listen to my daughter tell her story, and then go off on her! Then I had to humble myself, and listen to her story as if I was that same child telling my story to my mother. In doing that I can go back and think of how I felt, and then come to an ADULT conclusion on how to handle the situation. Listen to your child with your eyes, \”okay\” \”yes\” I understand\” are words that I often use to show that I am listening, and concerned. After wards a hug, and a kiss is a sign that peace and understanding has been established in the communication process. Make sure you always end that way. No matter how old they are! It works.

Further Instructions

6Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

Colossians 4 (New International Version)

God bless!

Cree

Whats up 360 Family? Well as for me I\’m doing good!

It\’s a new year and I\’m so looking forward to bigger and better things. I\’m looking forward to God blessing me, till I\’m on my knees saying Lord, take some of mines and let me share it with someone else. That\’s what I\’m talking about. Cup running over blessings! I\’m claiming that right now in Jesus name.

For many years now I have been saying, Oh I\’m going to lose weight, and I\’m going to start doing this. Well, I\’m not claiming any of that this year. I\’m just going to have to do the dogone thang. No need to write it, just do it. Same with my tithing. I\’m just going to have to get use to it, cause I have got to regroup in my finance area. God has really blessed me in that area for the past 4 months, and I need to start doing more with it. I\’m too ashamed to even mention how much I have gotten, because I\’ve been spending, and spending like crazy. I need a dinette set, and a living room set. I\’m going to put the one I have now in the basement to make room for something new. So that\’s in the works for me. So watch me yall, Imma have on my \”take care of business shoes\”, and things are going to be happening right in front of yall face. Lets all get it together ……….together.

God has really blessed me in the area of communicating with teens and kids. I don\’t know what it is about me, but I have a way of communicating with them, in a language they understand. When kids come through my line with their parents, they stare at me. I\’m telling yall, they do. And sometimes when I\’m working and I\’m in the zone, my facial expressions tell a different story about me, than whats really going on. In always in a good mood, so when I notice that kids are looking at me, I straighten up and say \”heyyyyyy boo how are you\”. And smiles go across their face, as if to say \”she noticed me\”. And I love it. I give them direct eye contact and I speak their language. I don\’t baby talk, I talk to them as if they are more than children, as if they are people too. So anyway……..with that said. I\’m going to chose a day where I write about parenting skills. If you have children and especially teens, maybe you can learn or ask me questions about them and some of the problems they have.

Destiny~ My teens group. We have much planned this year…if the Lord say the same! We have movie dates coming up, fund raisers in the mix, another hotel party March 24, , and a trip to Cedarpointe in Ohio the ROLLER COASTER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD! We have a lot of work ahead of us, and I will keep you all updated on that.

Well, I got some work to do right quick, but I\’ll be talking to you all. God Bless my Yahoo family. God knows I love yall!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Cree

Merry Christmas Everybody!

God is good aint he? Today is the day that the Lord has made! Thank you Jesus for letting me see another day!

How is everyone out there today? Things are good with me. Yall know I work for Walmart so yall can imagine how crowded and off the chain it was right? I made it through this Christmas Season. People were nicer this year than last year. I dunno if folks spend a lot of money or not, but it was busy.

Today is Christmas Eve and I didnt have to work. I am home today cleaning up my home office, man I am so junky at times. I keep things so long it dont make sense. I was debating with myself whether to keep a old receipt I had when I put some furniture in the layaway early this year. Its all faded and everything, so after going back and forth with myself, I decided to keep it???????? What is the bond I have with receipts? I have the next 4 days off including today and I am going to make use this time wisely. If I write a note on all the things I need to do, I can do them with no problem. But if they are not written down………………I wont do nothing! LOL

My family is coming over tonight so that we can open gifts. And we are celebrating my sisters boyfriends BD. Darren turned 36 yesterday and he said that when he was young, by Chirstmas being so close to his BD, he can only remember having cake and icecream once in his life. So, we are giving him a family get together tonight, dinner and opening gifts. He loves Turnip greens, so we are having those, collard greens too ( my favorite), mac and cheese, cake, ponderosa wings, chicken and dressing, and a Turkey. Then tomorrow we are all going to see Dream Girls! Then were taking a dish over to my sisters house for Christmas Dinner, movies and lots of games! I dont have to work the day after Christmas either, OH IM PLAYING SOME SPADES, Uno, Phase 10, Clue, and trouble tomorrow night! I can show ya, better than I can tell ya! LOL Its on and poppin!

Wednesday I was working the 12 items or less lane, and guess who walks up in my line? Delicious from Flava of Love 2. She is soooooo sweet. When I saw her, the first thing out of my mouth was Heyyyyyyyyy Ms. London. Thats her first name. She walked up to my register and gave me a big hug as if she had been knowing me forever. That warmed my heart. We just started chit chatting , talking and cracking up. She has lot some weight, she was looking pretty as she is, and she has a beautiful spirit. You can see it on her face, and in her conversation and the way she talks to you. She said that Walmart is her spot! lol Yeah cause thats the 3 time she has been spotted. Then the very next day she was in there again! She spotted me and gave me a hug, and we talked again. People was asking me how was she acting. She was so cool! I just wonder how people suppose to act? She is just a normal person. She shops at Walmart who dont…….or havent? lol She says that her and flav are still together, and that she flys a lot so, they see each other pretty much often. Im happy for her.

Well, Im about to go put some cranberry sauce in a platter. Its about to go down in a few hours! So everyone, yall have a MERRY CHRISTMAS, and remeber to Say Happy Birthday to Our Lord and Saviour Jesus!.

God Bless you all

Lacrease

I use to do these whycomes when I first joined 360, so I think that Im going to do a few right quick.

Whycome people have attitudes at Christmas time because they have to stand in long lines? Didnt they do this last year?

Whycome when people leave a bag of their groceries, they come back in the store and say \” Maam you forgot to give me my other bags\”. And whycome I say……. \’NO…….. your hands forgot to pick them up\”! ( in such a nice way?)

Whycome I wish that I had this button I could push, so that when drivers who drive fast and reckless on the rode ack up. I could push it and make them start over from home? ( hehe)

Whycome when your phone get cut off now adays, it says this line is being check for trouble? But when we were in school, it said…. this number has been disconnected!

Whycome when we go out to eat, our food look good, but why we just gotta taste others food too? \”All I want is a little piece\”

God Bless

Cree

Here is my one and only ( child) daughter……Mar\’Neishia!

This gurl here is my Ace of Spade. And born on my Birthday Sep 3! She will be getting everything on her Christmas list and more!!! Yep more! Let me tell you why!

She is in her sophomore year of college. She has a 3.77 grade point average, and from the rate she is going she will be graduating Summa Cum laude in the spring. I am sooooooo proud of my baby. She wants to be a Lawyer~Prosecutor. She is doing the dogone thang!!!

So for this Christmas her list is done! I got her another TV for her room, with DVD and a CD player, she got a 4G IPOD, plus the IPOD/iWake AM/FM clock radio dock for her Ipod. She got a pair of engraved (MJW)Timberland Boots ( on line). She got a birthstone ring, a portable DVD player, ( and something else that she doesn\’t know about).

She soooooooo deserve it. This is a year that God has really blessed me financially, I can\’t stress enough, bless others and watch yourself become blessed.

So my question. Who on your list is so deserving of all the gifts that you will give them this year?

 I want to ask you all a serious question. This is not a reply question. I only want you to comment on the poll. No names or replies please.

 

Ready? 

 

Hey,

Ok, I have a serious question that I need to ask you all. I really need your opinion on this okay? When everyone has commented, Im going to print it out and take it to my friend, who is waiting to hear your replies.

Ok, here it is. My friend has a 10 year old son, and a 4 year old daughter. Now when she uses the bathroom , she sometimes leave the bathroom door open. She talks to her son with him in the bathroom and with the door open. If she is doing number 2 she still will talk to him with the door open.

Recently her boyfriend moved in. They go to Church together, he loves the Lord and is a Christian just like her. Well, he feels that its disrespectful to her son, as well as him to have the bathroom door open when she is using it. She tells her boyfriend, that she was doing it before he got there and she see\’s nothing wrong with it. And therefore she will continue to do it.

They called me this morning, arguing about it asking my opinion. I told her how I felt about it ( will share later after you all response) she still felt that in the end, its his opinion and thats all it is.

So I told her that when we go to work in the morning, pull 10 people to the side and tell them the story without using names, and see how they feel about it.

But tonight Im asking you all. What do you think?

Whats going on family? I really miss you guys when I dont post. I know I need to work on this, and as soon as I do get out 2 or 3 entry’s. I disappear again. I have got to get back on track. And stay there! LOL

These last few weeks I have really learned a lot about people and the way that they think. Im learning everyday, you can’t make people be a certain way, and sho not act a certain way either. People doing and being who they are. And you know what? I aint even mad……….. no more. Yep, I use to get mad at people when they dont see things my way. I would diss dey a** in a heartbeat. But you know what? People are going to be themselves, its just about time, Lacrease realize that God didnt make 2 of her. lol

I’m a person who dont like gossip or drama. I cant stand it. I cant stand drama Kings nor Queens. I have no tollerance for them at ALL. I can see them coming a mile away, and I will zip my lips in a heart beat. Others dont see it. Sometimes I feel as if Im the only one who can see some bull jumping off. And here I have to wait on God to show them what he showed me 10 weeks ago, AND THE WAIT KILLS ME!!!!!!!!

Then when I dont have no comment or nothing to say, its like dang Lacrease why you aint saying nothing?

Its about to be a new year, and all VIRUSES will be removed! Today I purchased my anti-virus soft ware, and Im cleaning house on ALL  people who are invected! I have teens to minister too, and there is no way I can deal with others and their drama, when I have work to do from God. That mess intercepts my blessings.  AND YOU’S A LIE!

So with all of this said: Here is a video to prove the seriousness of this entry! Please watch it to the end!

 

 

Lacrease

 

 

 

Tyler was on Oprah this past Wednesday. He gave 1 million dollars to the Katrina Survivors.  I am so proud of my friend! Go head Tyler! God Bless You!

 

Your gurl

LaCrease