30 Things I Learned Before I Turned 10 [Top 30 list #3]

30 things I learned before I turned 10:

1. That I was loved
2. How to walk
3. How to tie my shoes
4. How to be a sister
5. What it feels like to live with Chronic pain
6. To love stories
7. How magical it is to watch a baby be born
8. How to play the piano
9. How to memorize things quickly and well
10. That I loved reading
11. What it feels like to get stitches 
12. How to ride a bike
13. How to pump on a swing without anyone pushing me
14. That Psalms was my favorite book in the Bible
15. How to skip count
16. That my favorite food is pasta
17. Every single lyric to every single Veggie Tales song for the first 10-ish years
18. What it feels like to take a bus without ac from Minnesota to Mexico
19. Also, what it feels like to travel to another country
20. The words and melodies to copious amounts of hymns 
21. That being healthy and doing what is best for your body is more important than eating what you want because it tastes good
22. That my mother will literally do whatever it takes to make sure her family is taken care of
23. The very first baby steps of journaling
24. How to catch fireflies
25. That my favorite flowers are lilacs
26. The smell of roses remind me of funerals and therefore dead people
27. What it feels like to lose your grandparents
28. How to keep myself amused for hours at a time
29. That my imagination is my best friend
30. That Minnesota is literally the most beautiful state

30 Things I Love About Myself [Top 30 list #2]

I'm reviving my top 30 list! Here's a quick list I made the other day that I hope inspires all of you to find 30 things about yourself that you love. 

30 things I love about myself:

1. My freckles
2. My love of stories
3. My sense of humor
4. The fact that even though I’m 5’ 2” and 100 lb, I have out-eaten my brothers’ giant teenage man-boy friends
5. My (sort of) dimples that appeared when I was 15 after I practiced smiling just right so that you could see them
6. The laughter lines by my eyes
7. My 2-pack
8. That I am the perfect size for hugging/cuddling
9. I can put babies to sleep when I hold them
10. My stubbornness, because you have to be stubborn to not give up and quit when things get hard
11. The color of my eyes
12. My tongue can make the shape of a burrito 
13. That I can usually see a situation from all sides and understand where people are coming from
14. My hair when it’s really long 
15. My love of dancing
16. That I can sing
17. My love of children
18. That I love to listen/observe
19. That I can tell stories that make people laugh
20. That I can tell stories that make people cry
21. My close relationship with all my siblings, regardless of age
22. My ability to be easily amused
23. That I can play the piano
24. That I journal (a lot)
25. My British accent
26. My love for honesty and righteousness
27. My work ethic
28. That I can fit my entire hand into my best friend’s mouth
29. My youthful features that allow me to hang out with people more than a decade younger than me without getting funny looks
30. My emotions and that I express them