Big News

Big news!

HUGE news!

Well, only kinda sorta.

I updated my facebook cover photo today!

I know, I know, you are wondering why this is such a huge deal.

Usually my cover photos are of a pretty view, usually from my travels (which means 95% of the time they are Disney related).

Today's was different.

It's a picture of me, with my husband, standing on the deck on the cruise ship (ok, so still Disney related, but baby steps, right?).

Now I'm sure you are all thinking, again, "Why is this such a huge deal?"

This is why:

1) Neither one of us looks "picture perfect" in this photo. It was windy, my hair is a mess, I'm squinting because I don't have my sunglasses, our clothes are clinging in all the wrong places. NOTHING about this photo is flattering.

2) Both of us are in swimwear. Almost every picture I post of us is from some sort of "event" where we are dressed up and looking our "best". Rarely casual clothes, NEVER something as revealing as what's up there right now (and I am wearing my swim coverup!).

3) My thigh is showing. One of my most reviled body parts.(I'm trying to get over it, really I am).

4) I almost didn't even let this photo get taken because I was all worried about the above. If it weren't for my fabulous new friends insisting, I wouldn't have this record of what was a wonderful moment. 

4) With all those reasons, I posted it anyway. Because we are so damn HAPPY in that photo. We don't just look happy, we ARE happy, and I want to broadcast that to everyone. And remind myself of it when I see it. That happiness makes everything else invalid, and that is of which I need to be reminded regularly. I can choose to be happy, and when I do, the rest of the petty stuff just flies away.