sunny side up
8 months of belly
xo
Monday, March 24, 2008
happy belated easter
me: "I have cankles"
him: "honestly, you do sort of have cankles today"
me: "WHAT??"
him: "but they are the cutest little cankles I've ever seen"
xo
him: "honestly, you do sort of have cankles today"
me: "WHAT??"
him: "but they are the cutest little cankles I've ever seen"
xo
Friday, March 21, 2008
chop chop
I'm thinking about cutting my hair.
I used to have short "Rosemary's Baby" style hair for years.
Not always the same cut but always a short cropped 'do.
Then I couldn't find a reliable hairdresser so I stopped cutting it and it just kept growing and growing. It had been so long since I had had long hair (like 5th grade). I thought it made me look more womanly and it did make me feel pretty sexy. But now I just have this long tangled mop on top. I semi-recently got bangs, just for a little change and I do like them but I'm really not the blow-dryer type and I think when my hair is long it may need that sort of TLC.
So, I'm thinking about chopping it all off.
It's my husband's fault.
He loves me with short hair (he loves me any way but you know what I mean)
Here are my main concerns:
1. I read, way back in the beginning of this pregnancy, that you shouldn't do anything too drastic to your appearance. That your hormones might be playing a trick on you and you'll wind up regretting it later... Now as I type this I realize that that sounds ridiculous. I probably read it in that crappy "what-your-girlfriends-won't -tell-you guide to pregnancy" book. The one that spent an entire chapter on how ugly and unfair maternity underwear are. But regardless, what if I don't like it? Then I'll feel a little pudgy and ugly.
2. Short hair will make me look chubby.
I've gained 25 pounds so far and even though I know I shouldn't be, I'm a little self conscious about it. It's just not what I'm used to. What if my new hair-do makes me look like a pinhead! Because the weight gain certainly has not been to my head.
3. I will have to get it cut and dyed waaaay more often.
4. I do not currently have a hairdresser that I trust completely. I don't even have a "regular" hairdresser. I seem to have a hard time finding a really good one.
Here's what I really wish:
I wish I could just show up at a magical salon where the stylists are all nice and everyone's hair is beautiful. Then the most super talented hair cutter of them all would ask what I want and I would say: "I feel blah, will you please cut my hair and make me feel absolutely drop-dead stunningly gorgeous?"
snip snip, chop chop a little blonde highlights and voila;
gorgeous.
Here are some really good things about short hair:
1. Sooo easy.
Say I roll out of bed one morning after the baby is born and I actually need to leave the house for something, say, more diapers, I am 99% sure my hair will look fantastic.
2. Short hair does look cute on me. I'm lucky I'm one of those girls who can get away with barely-there hair.
3. Short hair makes me feel more youthful and spunky. I think edgy might be an appropriate word too.
So there you have it. What's a girl to do?
xo
I used to have short "Rosemary's Baby" style hair for years.
Not always the same cut but always a short cropped 'do.
Then I couldn't find a reliable hairdresser so I stopped cutting it and it just kept growing and growing. It had been so long since I had had long hair (like 5th grade). I thought it made me look more womanly and it did make me feel pretty sexy. But now I just have this long tangled mop on top. I semi-recently got bangs, just for a little change and I do like them but I'm really not the blow-dryer type and I think when my hair is long it may need that sort of TLC.
So, I'm thinking about chopping it all off.
It's my husband's fault.
He loves me with short hair (he loves me any way but you know what I mean)
Here are my main concerns:
1. I read, way back in the beginning of this pregnancy, that you shouldn't do anything too drastic to your appearance. That your hormones might be playing a trick on you and you'll wind up regretting it later... Now as I type this I realize that that sounds ridiculous. I probably read it in that crappy "what-your-girlfriends-won't -tell-you guide to pregnancy" book. The one that spent an entire chapter on how ugly and unfair maternity underwear are. But regardless, what if I don't like it? Then I'll feel a little pudgy and ugly.
2. Short hair will make me look chubby.
I've gained 25 pounds so far and even though I know I shouldn't be, I'm a little self conscious about it. It's just not what I'm used to. What if my new hair-do makes me look like a pinhead! Because the weight gain certainly has not been to my head.
3. I will have to get it cut and dyed waaaay more often.
4. I do not currently have a hairdresser that I trust completely. I don't even have a "regular" hairdresser. I seem to have a hard time finding a really good one.
Here's what I really wish:
I wish I could just show up at a magical salon where the stylists are all nice and everyone's hair is beautiful. Then the most super talented hair cutter of them all would ask what I want and I would say: "I feel blah, will you please cut my hair and make me feel absolutely drop-dead stunningly gorgeous?"
snip snip, chop chop a little blonde highlights and voila;
gorgeous.
Here are some really good things about short hair:
1. Sooo easy.
Say I roll out of bed one morning after the baby is born and I actually need to leave the house for something, say, more diapers, I am 99% sure my hair will look fantastic.
2. Short hair does look cute on me. I'm lucky I'm one of those girls who can get away with barely-there hair.
3. Short hair makes me feel more youthful and spunky. I think edgy might be an appropriate word too.
So there you have it. What's a girl to do?
xo
Monday, March 17, 2008
week 31
sleepy, slightly blurry belly.
According to "Your Pregnancy-Week by Week" Little Ray weighs about 3 lbs. by now! I can definitely tell that he is feeling a little cramped. He doesn't so much gently kick and flutter anymore. Now it's more like jab and roll. It's really cool though because I can feel different body parts when he pushes against the outside of my tummy. He has also figured out how to tickle my ribs from the inside. It feels exactly like being tickled on the outside but just inside instead! I think he thinks it's funny when it makes me jump, so he always does it a couple times in a row...
I'm starting to get pretty darn excited. I had the most wonderful dream about little Ray the other night. I was holding him and he was giggling and playing with all my friends. He had the biggest bright blue eyes and long dark lashes just like his daddy.
I s'pose it's time to start looking for some furniture for his room...
Other than that, I started reading about vaccinations (taboo, I know) and I'm looking into alternative ways to deal with pain. I'm hoping to have Ray au naturale, but the only decision I have made so far is that I am not going to make myself feel bad if I can't handle the pain. Deep down though, I think I can handle it...
I think I can.
I think I can.
I think I can...
xo
Friday, March 14, 2008
they said it best
a collection of my favorite quotes...
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"And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to blossom."
~Anais Nin
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"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."
~Galileo
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"The lovely flowers embarrass me,
they make me regret I am not a bee..."
~Emily Dickinson
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"Speak French when you can't think of the english for a thing -
turn your toes out as you walk -
and remember who you are."
~Lewis Carroll
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"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook.
At seven I wanted to be Napoleon.
And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."
~Salvador Dali
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"When you come right down to it all you have is yourself.
The sun is a thousand rays in your belly.
All the rest is nothing."
~Pablo Picasso
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"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
~Lewis Carroll
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"Clouds are so beautiful I could bite my toes."
~Matthew Howe, age 4
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I hope you have a really great day today.
xo
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"And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to blossom."
~Anais Nin
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"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."
~Galileo
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"The lovely flowers embarrass me,
they make me regret I am not a bee..."
~Emily Dickinson
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"Speak French when you can't think of the english for a thing -
turn your toes out as you walk -
and remember who you are."
~Lewis Carroll
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"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook.
At seven I wanted to be Napoleon.
And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."
~Salvador Dali
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"When you come right down to it all you have is yourself.
The sun is a thousand rays in your belly.
All the rest is nothing."
~Pablo Picasso
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"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
~Lewis Carroll
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"Clouds are so beautiful I could bite my toes."
~Matthew Howe, age 4
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I hope you have a really great day today.
xo
and a well rested morning to you too.
I love how moms and dads always know what to say to make you feel better.
"It's not so much a loss of self but a gain of dimension. The trick is the definition. You may not always have a choice in the priority of the day but the YOU that is present is what makes it all happen."
"You" will never disappear; you are reflected and multiplied in all those you love, and who so love you."
xo
p.s. breakfast did help. It was the best eggs benedict in the history of eggs benedicts.
"It's not so much a loss of self but a gain of dimension. The trick is the definition. You may not always have a choice in the priority of the day but the YOU that is present is what makes it all happen."
"You" will never disappear; you are reflected and multiplied in all those you love, and who so love you."
xo
p.s. breakfast did help. It was the best eggs benedict in the history of eggs benedicts.
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