• Fashion

    Striped maternity dress and a flower in my hair

    Confession: I may never change out of this maternity dress. It is that comfortable. In fact, I never did change out of my maternity jeans between pregnancies; I prefer them to any other pair of jeans I’ve ever had. Mostly because, you know, stretchy belly band means no tight waistband that digs into my belly fat or gappy waistband that shows off my underpants when I sit. Why can’t all clothes be made as comfortable as maternity clothes? My hair is inspired by my friend Sarah’s awesome braid, but my hair isn’t quite cooperative enough to do what hers did. I have short pieces of bangs that like to escape.…

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    Vintage plaid and a flower crown

    I have been wanting to wear this pretty plaid dress from Stranger Bird Vintage ever since I got it (along with this gorgeous bohemian dress), but it needs a little bit of tailoring. Which I knew when I chose it, but uh… girl should have known better. I’m SO bad at fixing the clothing I get right away, and I’ll admit that I’ve had skirts sit in my “hem” pile for six months. Hemming literally takes like ten minutes. So I’m quite glad that being pregnant has helped fill the dress out a little more, along with this belt, because I’m not sure where my sewing machine is any more…

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    Striped maternity dress and red cardigan

      In eight days, we will find out what the gender of this baby is. I am SO excited, and very curious to see if my gut feeling and all of the old midwives tales are true. I already automatically refer to the baby as the gender my gut tells me it is, even though there’s a 50% chance I’m totally wrong, and when I accidentally referred to it as that specific gender, my husband went “Oh, really?” He refuses to guess, because he doesn’t want to get his hopes up either way. My guess is a girl, though. This pregnancy has been so very different from Asa’s that I’m…