- (Re)Take my NBPTS reading comprehension test today
- Get to a grocery store to buy fruit and milk (I have been eating a lot of cereal and fruit lately. I cannot get enough fruit)
- Home to do some dishes and/or nap
- Out to work friend's mom's house for bachelorette pre-party
- Out to dinner with bachelorette and her group of friends
- Skipping the bar and heading home to be with my wonderful wife
Edited later
- Finding out nothing fits anymore. Ugh. My size 16 capris cant even come close to buttoning. 16's were the big ones. Forget about the 12's or 14's I had lying around.
- I am grateful for this pregnancy. Do not get me wrong. I just wish I could stretch out my already limited wardrobe a little longer.
- Maybe when all the laundry gets done there will be more options.
3 comments:
I crave fruit, fruit , fruit too!
I haven't been able to get enough fruit either, and I'm so excited for summer fruit season! So far, cherries and strawberries are my very best friends.
As for stretching your wardrobe, there are a couple of solutions. First are bella bands/b-bands. T.arget sells the b-band (a less expensive version of the bella band) in their maternity section, and it's wonderful! You can wear it over your wasteband with your pants unbuttoned, and it holds them up. You can also wear them to make too-large maternity pants fit. They were a lifesaver during my first few months. Get a black one and a white one, and you'll be able to stretch your wardrobe for a bit longer. The other thing I did was look for pants/skirts that were meant for the whole pregnancy. Old.Navy has some things like this, and they have this fold-over band that you then fold up as your belly grows. They're super comfy and definitely worth getting now.
I hope this helps!
You can extend your pants a little bit by using an elastic (like a hairband) to wrap through the button hole, loop through itself, and then catch the button. You do need to be careful to wear with a longer shirt, though, and I think you might be reaching the stage where that no longer works. Stephanie needed bigger pants really early on!
You ultimately need a totally new wardrobe which is annoying, because it's such a short span of time that you need it for. However, when you start getting to the stage where you tell everyone you know, you will likely have a lot of loans of maternity clothing from friends or coworkers! Because it's such a temporary use item, almost everything ends up being in pristine shape afterwards.
If borrowing doesn't work because sizes just don't work out (do try on anyway, sizing for maternity wear can be hideously off), see if you can find a lot of maternity clothing in your size on craigslist or ebay.
If you need to get a few staple items, we had good luck finding the things needed to flesh out the borrowed clothing inventory on sale online at the gap and old navy.
And don't discount non-maternity wear that's a size bigger than usual. Maternity clothing is outrageously marked up sometimes. For a lot of things, like pyjamas and underwear and bras and jackets and skirts that go under the belly, Stephanie's just been wearing my stuff because it's all one size bigger than her prepregnancy size and now fits well.
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