Fashion Twilight Zone

Just one question, ladies. Why do the designers of maternity wear think that because you are carrying life, that all of your pants MUST be crops or capris? Who decided that mommy = floods?  I am tempted to go the skirt route to avoid this particular indignity. Another side note, Why did I have to wait to become preggo after the eighties came back in style. GROSS!

So with my twelfth week almost over my belly is starting to pooch out. I find myself rubbing it like it is a Buddha for good luck. The crappy part is that it is just pooching out, no distinct OMG she's pregnant look yet. Just a little fatter. Unless of course I smooth my shirt over my uterus and then you might say that you can see the roundness starting there, but I would just think that you were being nice. My grandmother seems to think that by telling me that my belly is just too big not to be due to the kid will make me feel better about it. But then again her mom used to tell me what a big girl I was. So maybe there is some genetic component there that lacks tact as well as the common courtesy to lie when your granddaughter is obviously distraught over looking fatter but not pregnant. The really weird thing is that I have lost two more pounds, despite what I see in the mirror. I guess that layer of blubber might just be melting away after all.

I did my first prenatal yoga tape! Loved it! But realized that my old yoga clothes look more than a little ridiculous (I ended up taking the shirt off, as it kept sliding up over my stomach). But my wonderful husband immediately told me to go get some maternity yoga gear when I called him to complain. Yeah! Shopping!

My size 10 pants that I was so stoked to buy just a few short weeks ago (actually the day before I found out I was pregnant) are torture devices now. Luckily I have some fat pants in my closet and will be able to use those for another month or so.

One last note, Mother's Day cards. When did they become so poignant?