TOp TeN

One of my best friends is perfect. Can you imagine how irritating that is? She enters a room smelling like the baked goods she has just pulled out of the oven, every hair is in place, she looks like a fashion model. She is talented, smart beautiful successful. She cooks, her house is immaculate, and she even has a vibrant growing relationship with God.
It is so easy to envy the things in others that don’t come as easy to us. The shocking thing to me is that she seems to see enough good in me to be my friend. Who knows what it is but she seems to enjoy me as much as I enjoy her.
If I am being honest as much as I admire her I would not trade my life for hers. I love the way I get to live. The free time I get to spend with Madi each day. The slightly messy times I get to spend with JP(brother 22, currently in basement). I know what I am doing is valuable and even enviable but sometimes during my days of changing diapers and washing dishes I think about a different life. And some Sundays when I show up to church in the last thing I own not covered in puke I look at her pressed dress and perfect hair and think….ahhhhh
Of course if I was being perfectly honest whether I had a baby, Husband, or JP I would not look , act or bake like she does. In fact these feelings have much more to do with how I see myself than how I see her. It is always easier to appreciate good qualities in others than in us.
So my challenge for today is list 10 things you like about yourself. I realize as I write this most of us are much better at listing the ten areas we need improvement but FORCE yourself. I think it will be an interesting exercise.
SO here goes in no particular order.
1. I am funny, whether I am being laughed at or with it is a guaranteed good time.
2. I am low maintenance, all I need to be happy is a diet coke and an episode of “Criminal Minds”
3. I am a great thrift store shopper, I always find great things for 2 bucks.
4. I have great taste in men, Kyle is patient, kind, loving, compassionate, forgiving, patient, patient, patient….and hot. Ha ha ha
5. I have beautiful eyes
6. I am creative, I have great ideas, not all of them are doable but they are great
7. I am a really good nanny, it is a job I enjoy and I think Jazz, 4 and Eli 2 are better for it
8. I think enjoyment of an activity and learning are much more important than the mess those activities create. I LOVE to cook with Jazz and Eli even though it means I will have the mop the floor after.
9. I have the ability to make friends with amazing women, I learn so much from them, even though they are so different from me they seem to like me as well.
10. I love God more each day and I hope I am becoming more and more like Jesus everyday.