Letter to My Body

**I'm guest posting over at Kelly's blog today: 
be sure to check out what I have to say about healthy eating.**

Disclaimer: I saw Carly's letter to her body and decided I owed it to myself to do the same.

Dear Body,

For some time now I've been trying to contort you to be what I imagine you should be.  I am trying to take you back ten years to what I was when I graduated high school.  I look at you in the mirror and I'm not always nice about what I see.

I'm so sorry that it's taken me this long to realize just how fabulous you really are.   

Thank you.  Thank you for sacrificing yourself by sliding through grass and turf all through high school and college to keep a soccer ball from leaving the field.  Thank you for leaping higher and shuffling faster to get back on D on the basketball court.  Thank you for literally putting your limbs in harm's way to stop a softball from going past the pitching mound.  

Thank you for carrying me faster and further each time I go for a run.  Thank you for the 13.1 miles you've taken me not once, but twice.  Thank you for being willing to go again.

Thank you for helping me to maintain my posture and allowing me to walk down the aisle in heels to the man of my dreams.

Thank you for some day giving me a sweet babe I can call my own.

Thank you for telling me when I needed to slow down, pushing me when I needed to speed up, and cooperating when I was too stubborn to listen.

Thank you for being the temple I need to serve my purpose on this Earth.  I am so privileged to have you to work within.

Thank you for putting up with my green smoothies, Whole 30 challenge, glasses of wine, and gallons of water.  Thank you for allowing me to enjoy seafood, nuts, dairy, and gluten.  I am so lucky that you are not picky.

Thank you for the ability to hug my loved ones, hold hands with my husband, and cuddle with my pups.

I can't really thank you enough for all the things you provide me.  Protection, stamina, strength to name a few.  I am really so blessed to have you and although I don't always treat you as such, I love you and I will do whatever it takes to care for you and appreciate you from here on out.

No longer will I stand at the mirror and critique you.  I will celebrate all the beauty that you are and all the wonderful things you are capable of.

Love, 

Me

Have you thanked your body today?

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Wedged.

wedges by coachgaines featuring mid heel shoes

I'm in need of some comfortable, stylish shoes to wear to work.  I'm on my feet the majority of the day and constantly moving from student to student, table to table, or classroom to classroom.  

I tend to gravitate toward wedges because they are easier on my feet with all the walking around and standing I do.  

Any suggestions for comfortable, work appropriate (but still fun) footwear?

Love for Prints

Tee: GAP, Skirt: Me (following this tutorial), Sandals: Belk (old, love these), Jewelry: Stella&Dot and Silpada

I have an obsession with printed bottoms.  So when I saw this material at Hobby Lobby, I just knew I had to make a skirt out of it.  Navy and white is one of my favorite color combos and the geographic print just rocked my little fashionista world.

Where did this sudden obsession with prints come from and who am I?!

This coming from someone whose friends teased her about having too much black in her closet.  Seriously, I look back on pictures of me a few years ago and it was a standard uniform: black top and jeans, black dress, black shoes...  Now, looking through my posts, I'm like I love color!!!

P.S. I noticed after editing these pics 1) excuse our grass - it looks terrible and 2) this necklace doesn't work.  I'm thinking I need another pop of color.  Ya think?

Here are a few other printed bottoms I've got my eyes on.  Which ones are your favorites?

Printed bottoms by coachgaines featuring slim pants