to be a woman

(found this picture via google and I really loved it)

Now before I dive into this one, I just wanted to preface it by saying, I'm not in any way a feminist by any means and this is not a post against men, because there are some really great men (which I happened to be married to) but I just think it is such an amazing honor to be a woman!

And that brings me to my day #3 of gratitude, I am thankful to be a woman.

I feel so blessed to be a woman because of the fact that we are born nurtures. We love to take care of others. We love being there for others and we just love to LOVE! It's in our D.N.A.

One day I was talking to a friend of mine and she explained something to me that I had never really thought about before. She talked about how Heavenly Father through Jesus Christ created the light from dark, then the waters and earth, then the trees and bushes, you know, so on and so forth. Well then it came time to create man. Man was created and then God saved the best for last, Woman. He saved his most precious gift for last. Wow, that's pretty awesome. Talking about that just made me realize how special I really was. So for that reason alone, I feel blessed to be a woman.

I think the number one reason I am so grateful to be a woman is I get to be a Mother! I love being a Mom more than anything else in the world. It was a little difficult for us to get pregnant and I had grown up wondering if I was going to be able to bare children at all and luckily I was blessed to do so but even still, I had it made up in my mind, even when I was just a teenager that I would have kids one way or another. (Actually after I lived in Guatemala, I always thought it would be awesome to adopt a baby from there.) It all goes back to being born nurturers. I love to love. I love to care for those two little boys I was given more than anything else in this world. Some days are good and some days, (like yesterday) are not so good. But I think that's just life in general. We have to take the up's with the downs.

Okay, I think I'm done with my rant. I just hope we (and I keep saying "we" because I really think only 3 or 4 ladies read my blog.) can remember that we are beautiful spirits that God has blessed and instead of getting down about not fitting into our skinny jeans, remember what beauty we really do offer to our families and this world.

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