As I mentioned the other night, I have been really wishing I could be more trendy as a mom. I’m not mad about it, really, but I am a touch sad that it just doesn’t seem to be in the cards for me, at least so far.
Today, therefore, I made an effort to see if even one of my skirts might fit me for the rodeo today. Of course, when I opened the drawer to look at them all, I immediately recognized that they are all waist skirts, and so none would work for me right now (either because my waist is still too large or because I can’t stand pressure on my waist for long). But I opened the wrong drawer just before this, and discovered a dress I had bought, I believe, shortly before becoming pregnant the first time. It had been wintertime, and so I never really got the chance to wear the dress not-pregnant.
So, I went ahead and tried it on, once I’d seen how the skirts weren’t going to work out, and it actually fit okay.
I still wore tennis shoes, and I had shorts on underneath, so I could lift the dress completely to breastfeed. But it actually ended up being super cute. I put on a watch, and then wore my straw cowboy hat, since it was hot out today, yet again, and my ensemble actually looked quite trendy.
At one point, I was sitting in the tent headquarters of one of our committees, waiting for my mom to run an errand, and I suddenly realized how exactly I had created my own version of that trendy mom from the website. I was my own self-expression if “trendy mom”, sitting there, holding my napping baby. I was both relieved and content.
And so I took a photo to catalog it and to celebrate the look. I even sent the photo to the mom with whom I had had the original discussion. She loved it, too. It didn’t even matter that I had milk puke all over the front of the dress – it blended in! (Gross, I know. Haha)
One more effort tomorrow for the last day of the rodeo. I’m grateful we are going as a family one last time. And I am grateful that I even can go.
Thank you, God, for this progress in my healing. Please, make me and my baby and my husband and my mom well, and keep us safe. May your will be done with my grandma – grant her comfort, love, and ease in whatever ways you see truly fit. Help us to love well always. Thank you for this life and for my family. In your name, I pray. Amen.
Post-a-day 2025
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