I don’t really mind that I gained a cool 50 pounds during pregnancy. Calvin and I are both healthy, and I’m again able to walk around Santa Cruz at a normal pace (compared to the half hour it took me to cruise around the block in my 39th week of pregnancy).
However, I am rather bummed about my clothing situation. I don’t want to spend money on new, larger clothing that I won’t wear for very long, but this means I don’t have very many fabulous outfits. Boo hoo, I know; but I can assure you that maternity jeans don’t look as cute when you’re no longer maternity-ing, and maternity jeans are the cutest ones I currently own and fit.
When I was about four months pregnant, I followed the advice of my (pregnant) midwife, and removed from my closet all of my non-maternity clothes. Many of these ended up in our upper closet, a chaotic wasteland of free tote bags, clothes used for painting and gardening, and approximately 83 t-shirts belonging to Larson (who works for a company that gives him clothing, and who hasn’t thrown out any clothing since high school). Sometimes, I like to drag a chair over to that closet, climb up, and gaze at my size two cigarette pants that I will never, ever wear again.
Struck by the urge to poke around in the upper closet today, I clambered up and, after digging through the aforementioned tiny pants, bathrobes (plural), and various Larson gear (I found your Fleetwood Mac shirt, by the way), I stumbled on an old pair of jeans from my larger days. When I consigned these jeans to the upper closet, I didn’t think I’d ever wear them again, but they were rather expensive, so I hoarded them.
I tried them on, and lo and behold, they fit! “Could life get any better?” I wondered. And folks, a moment later it did. You might not know that in addition to hoarding clothes, I also never empty my pockets. And right then and there I found 13 dollars in the pocket of these glorious jeans. Basically, we’re having Christmas in February here at my house.
I leave you with a picture, wherein Calvin and I do not express the joy I felt at my discovery today.
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Remember that half of the $13 is mine!
— larson · Feb 11, 03:30 PM · #
Wow! I haven’t seen you in a while. Love the hair!
— Brasilliant · Feb 11, 03:37 PM · #
Brasilliant- I know, it’s heck (yeah, I said it) of long! It’s funny looking through pregnancy pictures, because in each one I get a little bigger and my hair gets a little longer.
Larson- Hoard your own money! Isn’t it enough that I found your Mac shirt?!
— Serena · Feb 11, 04:56 PM · #