Letters from Mom

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The Monday after PDM... need I say more?

I gotta admit, on Sunday I experienced most of the physical pain, but the day after it all, my brain was the one suffering and acting all weird.

I could barely fixate my eyes on the words in my class powerpoints, let alone answer questions with actual words. 

I didn't realize such an event took so much out of you. And I'm used to pushing my body to do things on little to no sleep. But, this was a whole new level for me. My roommate even informed us that our 24 hours of dancing counted for a total of over 7,000 calories burned. Good thing we literally kept eating the entire way through!

This was totally us by the end, not even gunna lie. Dance moves on point.

I'm starting to feel like I'm possibly, maybe losing weight, especially in my midsection. Although I didn't visit the gym Monday (I would have been absolutely crazy to), I was feeling stronger, and not as much like my body hated me for pushing it physically to the max. I just want to feel confident this upcoming spring break (in like 10 days!) and be happy with where I'm at.

When I got home from my morning class and working in the computer lab on my reading assignments, I opened up a letter addressed to me, from my mom. I found this little gem in there:

She knows me too well. Cookies are my biggest weakness - it was even my first word as a baby.

Every week, without fail, my lovely mom sends me a letter. Sometimes with quirky newspaper clippings in them like this one, sometimes an article about a topic she knows I'd be interested in, and even the occasional gift card to food places (god bless). But each and every one contains a handwritten note from her catching me up about her week, or encouraging me that what I'm doing is somewhat right, you know all that mom stuff. But I love every bit of her little notes. Love you mom.

My Monday ended with a sorority meeting where I got to sit next to my adorable GL, and then just doing work for classes at home. So, not too exciting, but I was glad I could get through the day without falling asleep in class, and getting to talk to family during the day too.

Call your mom, or grandma, or aunt, dad, brother, sister, friend... whoever makes you smile. It'll put even the slightest bit of positivity into your day that you didn't even know you needed =)

Ta ta for now babes,

XO

Amanda