My Celebrity Wow Moment

At close to 2 ½ years since my RNY weight loss surgery, Wow moments are just as wonderful now as when they first began. Wow moments are little “golden nuggets" of encouragement that come so unexpectedly out of nowhere to give us a little nudge to keep going. Sometimes the mountains that we have to climb during our journey can overwhelm us. The mountains often cause us to wonder if there is even hope for what appears to be a hopeless situation.

Yesterday evening after I arrived home from work, Kevin and I were talking about the days events when he interjected into the conversation, “Oh yea, Jacob and I were watching television this evening (Jacob is our college age son home for the summer) and Jacob said “Hey Dad, look at that lady on TV!! She looks just like Mom" …. So Kevin then proceeds to ask me, “Guess who the lady on TV was?"……

Now, I am standing there thinking, and all kinds of images start to flood my mind of different possibilities.. And naturally my brain automatically scans images of middle aged or over the hill aged women that have weight issues.

At that point I decide it is way too dangerous for me to make a guess, so I ask Kevin to go ahead and tell me who it is cause I am way too tired to guess.. He then blurts out the name “Goldie Hawn"!!!!!!!

Of course I had to find my son and kiss him on the cheek cause he just made his mom’s day, week and year and I had to kiss Kevin on the cheek too and thank him for being kind enough to remember what my son had said and thoughtful enough to tell me. You know how it can be when you have a couple of guys sitting on the couch wrestling over the remote control and only surfing channels to find out about the ball game, the fishing show and the food network. That was so sweet that during their man time together that they thought about me.

That little golden nugget WOW moment made that mountain I had struggled with all day to climb look like a small grain of sand.

This is how my son used to see me:


 

This is how my son sees me now: