Do you ever notice how when you were a kid one comment can stick with you for a lifetime? I was probably 8 when this happened to me. I remember clapping and singing to some music all happy and free like kids do, and my older sister laughed and pointed at me and said, "You have man hands!" I, of course, did not like that she said that about me. I examined my hands to see if she was right; they were big hands. I started to compare them to my friends' hands. I was pretty embarrassed over how my hands weren't skinny and pretty.
Skip forward to when we were ring shopping for our upcoming wedding. I did not enjoy this experience, because I felt like my hands required a big size. To make it worse, Paul's mom and sister have the tiniest hands and feet. Literally his mom wears children's size shoes. So then I felt like I had monster feet in my size 8's. Every time I took my shoes off and put them down it looked like cute fairy princess shoes next to Willie the Giant's clod hoppers. I also worried that Paul thought I had fat hands.
I have adjusted my thinking somewhat to realize that my hands aren't abnormal. We were shopping for rings a couple years ago. Actually we were just trying rings on. We love to window shop jewelry stores, buying is another story. The sales lady tried telling us that I have such small hands. I almost laughed in her face. Unfortunately for her, that sale wasn't happening. There is no way she can convince me that I have tiny hands. I realized she was just trying to make a sale, but that was such a ridiculous white lie.
Sometimes I look at my hands and try to figure out if they have thinned out at all. Nope. Same hands I've always had. (Can you work out your hands to make them smaller?) Even though she's just a baby I would never say Isabel has little thunder thighs or fat chubby hands. She's so stinking adorable, and when she smiles I fall in love all over again with her. I want her to be comfortable in her body and have a healthy self-image. The words we put out there linger, they can heal or they can hurt. It's important to be careful what we say.
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