Hi friends! Following last week's post which was on five things that I'm struggling with after recovering from covid, I thought I would do the opposite of that this week and write about five things that I'm really grateful for because you know that I love more of a positive vibe over here. In no particular order, here goes.
1. I am so endlessly grateful for my people - this includes my husband, my besties, and all of those who love me and treat me the way that I deserve to be treated. I think I mentioned it in my last post but I'm totally struggling with my body image at the moment, and I spent a few hours of the early morning crying about this to Stephen because I was so anxious that I wouldn't look good at my hen do, and he would not allow me to let my anxiety win. We were up until 2am with me crying and him doing his best to stay awake and calm me down. I could never thank him enough for being the best husband there is. Spoiler alert: I looked absolutely gorgeous at my hen do, as did all of the wonderful humans who came to celebrate me - I'm very thankful to my bridesmaids for giving me the post-wedding hen do of dreams, thank you so much!
2. Going off from that first point about body image and comparison etc, I noticed at my hen do that I'd made some progress that I don't know if I'd patted myself on the back for yet. There were so many other hen parties going on at both of the venues that we went to during mine, and this meant that there were so many other gorgeous brides and hens around, and I found myself thinking how beautiful they looked. A few years ago, I probably would've spiralled and seeing their cute outfits/hair/make up/whatever would make me think I'm ugly, but yesterday, I told one of my bridesmaids that 'their beauty doesn't take away from mine', and I was able to just appreciate their outfits etc without feeling down about mine, and I'm just really proud of myself for that. A small amount of progress is still progress. Give yourself a pat on the back today for how far you've come, too.
3. Also speaking of my hen do, once I had my final guest count on the day before it, I went out to grab my hens their final gifts for their little favour bags to go with their 'team bride' temporary tattoos, love heart sweets and sashes. I decided on getting them some pin badges, and I tried super hard to get badges which matched their personalities. I'm pretty sure they loved them and I'm glad because I had so, so much fun choosing them! Anyway, what I'm getting at with this one is that I went out to get gifts for them, but I ended up getting a gift myself as our local Paperchase was doing an offer where you got a free tote bag if you spent a certain amount. I've been really getting into tote bags lately because they're so cute, and hold so much. I chose one with a massive sun on it which says 'powered by positivity'. I mean. The most me phrase ever, and I love it.
4. I am grateful to my nail salon for offering to take me on as their last appointment on Friday evening so that I could have my hen do nails done, (as my original appointment had to be postponed due to an emergency), even though I'm sure they were nervous that they might not be able to finish my appointment before their closing time - it is so wonderful when people who offer you professional services start to become more like friends. We did manage to finish my appointment about ten minutes before they closed, and I felt totally awful about being the last one there that late, but they were grateful about how accommodating I had been when my appointment needed to be changed, even though I couldn't think of another way to be at all, they didn't have to take me on at all but they did. Anyway, here's what I asked for - totally Taylor Swift 'lover' era vibes, and I am obsessed.
5. Last but not least, I mentioned in my last post that we'd finally recovered from our covid-related brain fog enough to be able to put our wedding photos into our album. That was so much fun, but unfortunately... it turns out that what I'd ordered was a guest book instead of a wedding album, so while it COULD fit 200 photos inside the pages of it, that didn't mean that it would CLOSE once it was filled up. This could only happen to me. Anyway, we started Googling what to do when spiral notebooks/albums don't close due to being over-filled and we discovered that the advice is to take out the wiring, remove all of the pages and place bigger wiring/rings on to them and reattach - because the rings are bigger now, they're able to hold more weight and the album does now just about close, but maybe this is good advice for someone to read - MAKE SURE your wedding photo album isn't actually just a really cute guest book, and if you do make the mistake, it's not the end of the world but you'll have to replace your nice rose gold spiral binding with some silver keyring loops - but you know what. At the end of the day, it's the photos and the memories inside of the book which are the most important, and being able to sit and flick through 200 of our favourite photos is amazing.
What are you grateful for this week? xo
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