The new spring clothing catalogs have been pouring in since January, and I love paging through them. The prospect of buying cute, new clothes has taken a back seat since last summer — except for cute, new maternity clothes, but I've tried not to go overboard with those. It feels like I've spent the entire winter rotating among half a dozen maternity tops, two or three pairs of jeans (only one of which is big enough to fit me comfortably now) and an uber-large, uber-soft pair of black yoga pants that I found at a Lands' End outlet and wear almost every day now. And the same old pairs of faded underwear and stretchy bras that I wore when I was pregnant with Daniel. Right after he finished breastfeeding, I had splurged on some pretty new bras to celebrate; now they're sitting in the back of the drawer, too small again. So I flip through the catalogs, and I feel the stirrings: These are clothes I might actually be able to wear this spring! Normal clothes are on my horizon again, and I can't wait to go shopping. I know it's going to take some time for my body to settle back into shape — and, true, I'm looking at clothes like tunic tops and loose dresses that will cover my post-partum belly for a while, but oh — to have my body back. I can't wait.
This weekend, I gave my toenails a little touch-up. I last had a pedicure in mid-January, around my birthday, and it had pretty much given way to chippy paint and unshapen nails. So I touched them up with a nice pinkish-nude color and felt so much more pulled-together than I have in a while. Then I had to laugh Sunday night when our doula came over to talk about birthing stuff. I was musing aloud about whether I had the time or inclination to fit in a bikini wax before the Big Day, and she said many women she sees tend to paint their toenails before they go to the hospital. Ha — guess I'm ready, then!
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I totally get you on the pedicure. Even without a pending birth, it's good to have toenails in tip-top shape because you never know when others will see them. Kind of like my new rule about shoes: Don't buy synthetic, because you never know when a shoe coneissueur (or shoe snob, which ever way you look at it) will be in the same space as you and notice. I probably sound totally neurotic.
I had to laugh. I got my toes done the week I had Wyatt - the big mistake was color - I can only call it whore-ish red. He was more than 3 weeks early, so this wasn't expected. I laughed everytime I looked down :) Good luck with the VBAC!
There's something about nice painted toe nails that makes me feel "put together." Funny I don't feel the same way about my fingernails. I'm glad you are painted and ready to go! It's going to be such a beautiful sunny day today!
Ellen & I sometimes talk about how certain clothes become "tired" easily, especially clothes from places like Ross or the Rack. Sounds like you're suffering a similar situation.
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