11/10/09 – I’m changing this to a list of reasons I am happy just the way I am TODAY(with special thanks to Ivory for the bigger inspiration;) I do believe that I could think of 101 Reasons I Love My Body, but I think that it’s just so much more important to focus on a larger picture of why we love ourselves JUST AS WE ARE – body, mind and spirit. My body is only one piece of the puzzle that makes up “me.”

1. I love my freckles.

2. I love my hair color – no one else has a color quite like it.

3. I love my hands,

4. Especially my strong, nice nails.

5. My breasts are LARGE and have more than provided milk easily for my two beautiful babies.

6. I love that my legs are so strong and sturdy.

7. I love the way my body feels when I stretch.

8. I love that my body nourished, grew and blessed me with two amazing children.

9. My body is a soft, warm place for my kids to snuggle.

10. I have nice feet.

11. I like my pale skin.

12. I love how I look in any shade of pale aqua or blue.

13. I love how I feel about myself in the evening when I’m rocking my kids and inhaling every morsel of their sweet baby scents.

14. I love that I don’t often feel the need to defend the way I feel about things – if I care about, I know that what I truly believe in my heart is what matter, not how someone else perceives it.

15. I care about more than just my weight. At the end of the day when I’m alone with just myself, when I’m with my kids or my husband, I’m proud of the human being that I am.

16. I love that this body has carried me through everything in life so far and I’m still going and so very blessed.

17. I love that this body carried me to Haiti and allowed me to see more of the world than I ever imagined.

18. I love that this body (AND MIND) have allowed me to try to understand on a daily basis how I can be grateful and conscious of how truly blessed I am when I think that things are getting difficult.

19. I’m thankful for hands and fingers that allow me to easily zip and unzip my children’s coats and boots and get on(and off) hats and mitens and scarves to play in the snow.

20. I’m thankful for hands and fingers that allow me to easily help my children get dressed every day without causing me pain.

21. I’m thankful for legs that let me go for a walk with my sister and lungs that make me struggle to breath at a fast pace, reminding me that I can make my body even more alive and healthy.