Some more camp wows!
As I sit here and decide to put these into words, part of me thinks, wow - Stef - REALLY?!?! MORE WOWS? *****ally wants to hear it - and then my second thought is - you know what? I WANT TO HEAR IT. And I am using this as my journal. So - I apologize if I am STILL feeding my own ego - I just know that it will not always be easy, and I have already have had some major struggles, and rereading what you all have to say to me puts me back into my happy place. So here goes.
On Friday afternoon, when Larry got to camp, he came out of the bathroom and looked at me the way I have been waiting for him to look at me - with that little smirk of knowing.....it made me feel so good. I, of course, asked him what the smirk was for - his response, "you look so terrific - even better than before!" warmed my heart! Then getting dressed in my shabbat whites, I was actually wearing a white shirt AND white pants - I felt pretty good about what I was wearing and turned to Larry jokingly and said, "Hey - who knew that fat girls could wear white?" He looked at me and said, "Sweetie - you are NOT fat and I LOVE you in white!"
Saturday morning, I was walking aroud services taking pictures of my synagogue kids here at camp and I walked by a counselor that I hadn't yet said hi to this summer, (there are about 200 or so staff up here.) I was talking with a camper of hers, and she said to me - "I haven't told you this yet, but you look great!" She said this a little sheepishly - made me feel as though she was trying to get up the courage or something to say something to me. Very sweet!
Yesterday was the camp July 4th carnival - there was this amazingly huge waterslide - one of those BLOW up ones - and although I LOVE all kids of water games and rides, I would NEVER have considered going on it in the past becuase I thought I would deflate the entire thing - didn't even think about that - I climbed on up - jumped up and down - it was a bouncy thing after all - and slid down without any issues! I will be posting the one picture on facebook at some point. sooooo fun! :)
Today, two big things happened - I was doing the hokey pokey with the little people and we were outside, before it got too hot, and when I was "turning myself about" I caught a glimpse of myself in the window and had a moment of - who is that? Needless to say - everytime I then, "turned myself about" I checked out my reflection! :) I then come back to my room to find a folded peice of paper on my floor, open it to find the menu for the next week. The office manager here at the health center made sure I had a copy so I knew how to plan for the meals. I went to her and thanked her for respoecting me so much that I didn't even have to ask for it! Her response was, "I am just so proud of you." I told her how much it meant to be surrounded by people *****spect what I did and understand the challenges that come along with this life altering surgery and new lifestyle.
I am so moved and can't beleive how lucky I have been. Turning 40 the month after my surgery and the next 15 months, I had no idea how happy I could have been. I have learned so many new things about myself - and you know me - I thought I knew EVERYTHING! :) HA HA!
Thanks for reading! :)
On Friday afternoon, when Larry got to camp, he came out of the bathroom and looked at me the way I have been waiting for him to look at me - with that little smirk of knowing.....it made me feel so good. I, of course, asked him what the smirk was for - his response, "you look so terrific - even better than before!" warmed my heart! Then getting dressed in my shabbat whites, I was actually wearing a white shirt AND white pants - I felt pretty good about what I was wearing and turned to Larry jokingly and said, "Hey - who knew that fat girls could wear white?" He looked at me and said, "Sweetie - you are NOT fat and I LOVE you in white!"
Saturday morning, I was walking aroud services taking pictures of my synagogue kids here at camp and I walked by a counselor that I hadn't yet said hi to this summer, (there are about 200 or so staff up here.) I was talking with a camper of hers, and she said to me - "I haven't told you this yet, but you look great!" She said this a little sheepishly - made me feel as though she was trying to get up the courage or something to say something to me. Very sweet!
Yesterday was the camp July 4th carnival - there was this amazingly huge waterslide - one of those BLOW up ones - and although I LOVE all kids of water games and rides, I would NEVER have considered going on it in the past becuase I thought I would deflate the entire thing - didn't even think about that - I climbed on up - jumped up and down - it was a bouncy thing after all - and slid down without any issues! I will be posting the one picture on facebook at some point. sooooo fun! :)
Today, two big things happened - I was doing the hokey pokey with the little people and we were outside, before it got too hot, and when I was "turning myself about" I caught a glimpse of myself in the window and had a moment of - who is that? Needless to say - everytime I then, "turned myself about" I checked out my reflection! :) I then come back to my room to find a folded peice of paper on my floor, open it to find the menu for the next week. The office manager here at the health center made sure I had a copy so I knew how to plan for the meals. I went to her and thanked her for respoecting me so much that I didn't even have to ask for it! Her response was, "I am just so proud of you." I told her how much it meant to be surrounded by people *****spect what I did and understand the challenges that come along with this life altering surgery and new lifestyle.
I am so moved and can't beleive how lucky I have been. Turning 40 the month after my surgery and the next 15 months, I had no idea how happy I could have been. I have learned so many new things about myself - and you know me - I thought I knew EVERYTHING! :) HA HA!
Thanks for reading! :)
Who wants to know about your wows?! REALLY steff? REALLY and SERIOUSLY?! We freaking do!! Big ones, little ones, weird ones, WHATEVER....we LOVE revelling in the succesing of others, because we know we can do it here, too.
FANTASTIC woman! Your summer is just sooooooo amazing thus far, and I have no doubt will CONTINUE to be amazing!
Congrats, woman, you deserve it!
FANTASTIC woman! Your summer is just sooooooo amazing thus far, and I have no doubt will CONTINUE to be amazing!
Congrats, woman, you deserve it!
Instead of complaining that the rosebush has thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. 
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