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Thursday, March 19, 2009

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I Love my body!

No I'm not Vain. I decided I needed to appreciate it more. I once was in a class where the lady talked about how much she had grown to dislike her body because of how it looked. Then a few weeks after her fifth child was born she was standing in the shower looking at how most of her body was going south when she realized how incredible her body was. It had given her four beautiful boys and had just given her a girl. It had been battered, beaten and abused with work, child birth, nursing, and time and yet here it was still going strong. Lately I've been hating the way I look. I think in a way I probably am a little vain because I sometimes wish I had the figure of a 20 year old instead of what I have...The figure of a very matronly mom. It's not just the weight that has been hard though. I acquired lots of stretch marks that make my skin look loose and flabby. I think that may be the hardest part because stretched out, scared skin can never go back.
Anyway last night when I was praying I was thinking of all the wonderful things in my life. The four that top the charts are the reason I have all these stretch marks and the little extra weight I carry. It hit me that I wouldn't trade my beautiful boys for anything in the world. That's why I love my body. It made it through so many trials of life. So maybe it doesn't look great but I think it looks Real good for having four children in six years. So Thank you my body. In the future I will be much kinder and take better care of you. Thank you Heavenly Father for giving me a body and I'm sorry I haven't appreciated it more.
For all of you who are reading think about what your body has done for you... Not what it hasn't done, or what you want it to do but how much it has got you through. Appreciate that and love what God has so graciously given you. After you think about it a bit leave me a comment about why you appreciate your body.

7 comments:

Annie said...: I appreciate my body because . . .
It enables my to swim,
play tennis,
run around,
swing,
do almost everything! (In the future it will help me have kids, too); March 21, 2009 at 6:18 AM
Savannah said...: I probably don't appreciate my body as much as I should, but I don't have many complaints either. I just wish I didn't have to deal with the affects of PCOS! If you want more details I could email you privately.
But I do love how my husband constantly lets me know that he still likes my body.; March 21, 2009 at 10:59 AM
Lisa said...: I must admit, I don't have stretch marks after 4 kids, but I am getting wrinkles/bags under my eyes, which I am trying hard not to be sad about. One night when I was telling Chris about it, Chris told me that he loves to see the dark circles/bags, ect. because it shows the sacrifices I make for our family (i.e. no sleep!) I need to think of things more in that way. Thank goodness for great husbands who remind us of things like that!; March 21, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Teah said...: How true it is that wrinkles,sags, bags and extra pounds blind us to our true potential. I agree with you both that it's wonderful to have husbands that love us even when we don't really love ourselves. Thank you for commenting.; March 23, 2009 at 7:55 AM
Shelleen said...: I had a friend in my ward just tell me that she made a conscious choice to not say anything negative about her body in front of her kids. She doesn't want to set the wrong example to her kids, (especially her daughter) about how we should feel about our bodies. That really impressed me since I make jokes all the time about my wide caboose at home. So that is something I am working on doing while I do not have a child that understands me yet.
Thank you for helping to remind me how incredible the human body is. I have been working out pretty hard for several weeks and my body is just not responding the way I would like it to, but you are right that, my body is getting older but it still can do amazing things. Thank you for the reminder. Love ya.; March 23, 2009 at 2:56 PM
Sharene said...: That was a great post. Thank you for putting it on there Teah. What a great reminder. I am thankful that I am not in SEVERE pain all of the time like some people are!; March 30, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Anonymous said...: Teah! I wondered if you blogged and then I found you. Glad you are appreciating yourself more I feel the same way. I think you should email me so we can catch up
courtneyschriever@yahoo.com
Chat later roomie!; April 1, 2009 at 4:17 AM

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Treytion Station

5. At dinner a week ago we were talking about playing basketball and Trey asked if Grandpa Weight ever played basketball with Donovan. Donovan said yes but that he couldn't play anymore because he had hip surgery. He then told Trey about the metal hip that was put in. Trey paused for a minute after Donovan got done and then said " Is Grandpa half Robot?"(5/31/09)
4. Treytion and I (Dad)were discussing how smart he is and he told me that Mallory, his friend at school, had asked him how come he was so much smarter than her. I asked him what he told her and he said, "I told her that that was just the way God made me."(approx. 3/09)
3. So a couple of days ago, I (Dad)was talking to Treytion about his imaginary friend Hannum. She is a girl that Trey made up several years ago and I thought that the name was so original that I have kept asking him about Hannum and what she is doing. Anyhow we were talking about age and the following exchange occured. Trey said, "Well in Hannumland (the place that Hannum lives) Hannum is like 19,900 years old." "Wow, she must be really old!" I said. "Naw, in Hannumland the number of your age gets smaller as you get older," Trey responded. I countered, "Then how old would I be in Hannumland?" "Oh," Trey said nonchalantly, "about 10." (2/18/09)
2. Trey knocked on the door to the computer room today and so I knocked back. Then he knocked again so I knocked back. Then he said "stop it Dad." So I opened the door and said "I can't believe you thought I was Dad." and so he said " Oh I thought you were Dad cuz he's the funny one." There you have it I'm not the funny one but I got a good laugh off of his frankness. (10/20/08)
1.Trey "Guess how you make a Turkey?"
Mom " How?"
Trey " Take a Tur and a Key and put them together."
Dad " Whats a tur?"
Trey " A turn without the N."

Tennyson Talk

7. Tennyson came into Daddy carrying a bottle of Italian salad dressing spritz and said, "Daddy, Enoch just spritzed my bed." Daddy grabbed the spritz bottle and went to find Enoch and asked Enoch if he spritzed the bed. Enoch said that he did. Daddy told Enoch that he should not spritz the bed. Tennyson added, "Yea Enoch we don't spritz the bed, because then that makes the bed taste good, and we don't eat beds!! (3/27/2011)

6. Tennyson apparently things "Gas" is pronounced "Grass" which can be quite disturbing when you don't know what he is talking about and he's saying "Grass" while pointing to his bottom.lol(3/5/09)
5. Tennyson called daddy to come in and help him and Daddy said "I'm Busy" after the second time calling him and getting this answer he called "Busy come here!" So Donovan laughed and said "What do you need Tennyson?" and Tennyson said "YOU!" (12/11/08)
4.When putting on Tenny's cloths Donovan and Tenny usually sing "put your right foot in. Put your left foot in. Put your both feet in and do a little spin." but once Tenny said "and do a little sin :) (12/7/08)
3. It's not a ham sandwich its a "Tam sandwich"(11/12/08)
2. When Tennyson says chocolate his says "chalk lick"(10/27/08)
1.The last two nights when Tennyson has said his prayers he starts them "Dear Heavenly Father... Ssh be quiet!" I guess you know what often gets said in our prayers.

Enoch Exclamations

3. reading over the other two entries is funny because Enoch now absolutely loves all bugs and wants us to be kind to them. In fact one day he came in carrying a wasp and said look Mom it's nice. (I had told him not to touch them because they would hurt him) I panicked a little and then told him to go put the wasp outside. I went with him and had him put the wasp in the grass. Then I told him to leave him there. Enoch was so sad about the idea of leaving him that when I turned my back he reached down to pick it up again. This time the wasp was not quite so nice, but Enoch after his initial yelp tried not to show that he was hurt. He's a tough guy like that and doesn't like to it when he's proved wrong

2. Enoch has developed a phobia of bees. However, the funny thing is that anything that flies and is obviously not a bird is a bee. For the past few months we have been dealing with tiny moths in the house. Every time Enoch would see a moth he would scream bee and become hysterical until someone dispatched of he moth. We have spent alot of time telling him that they are moths not bees and that they are nice. We must be making some progress because the other day Enoch saw a moth and said, "MMMMOOOOTTTHHHHH!!! THEY ARE NICE! KILL HIM DAD! (03/11)

1. Enoch now say's mo'm and Da'd. He also is trying to copy his brothers down but only gets da out. He can point to what ever he wants though so that helps. (9/09)
So although Enoch can not talk yet he can express himself. He doesn't cry very much, but he does scream. He screams when he's happy. He screams when he's mad. The only difference is the pitch.

Elijah Explainations

7. During lunch today Elijah pushed away his soup without touching it and said "I don't like soup," Daddy said, "Well then I guess that I will just eat yours all gone," Elijah screamed, "NO!" and pulled to bowl back. Daddy said, "But I love soup." Elijah retorted, "NO IIII love soup!" and proceeded to eat.

6. As Teah finished up making the meal yesterday, Elijah looked at her and said, "You cooked some more, good job Mom!!

5. "I want some alligatored" translation Gatorade. No matter how hard we try to get him to say it right he still insists its alligatored.(2/11)

4. Down "dow". This also means up for him. (8/09)
3. Every parents favorite word has just entered Elijah's vocabulary "NO". He sometimes accompanies this with a head shake or pushing something away.(7/09)
2. Elijah has learned to say Dada and All done but it comes out "ah da"(5/31/09)
1.Elijah loves to talk. He tells us all about everything... in baby language of course. He does so with moving eyebrows, punctuations in speech, and verious other facial expressions to match his meaning. (2/09)

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