>Odds and Ends… and One Great Big Belly
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I can’t believe I’m doing this. It’s one thing to post your belly pic after you’re all nice and slim again- It’s another thing altogether to do it when you weigh more than you’ll ever tell anyone (including your doctor) and are wondering how on earth you’ll ever look like you used to.
However, I couldn’t not reciprocate after so many of you posted pictures of your third trimester selves, just for me. I’m truly touched and feeling the online love. Plus, I just had coffee with Susie Sunshine (and the lovely Nicole from Sitting Still) and she told me my boobs looked great! Now that’s what friends are for!
-I write a weekly post for the Nashville Scene’s blog, Pith in the Wind, and this week’s post on people who use their cell phones in restaurants is worth reading for the comments alone. Unbelievably, one person is trying to justify using a cellphone in a nice restaurant- because he (I’m assuming it’s a he) might need to conduct business, and the rest of us should just deal! Anyway, it’s pretty funny.
–Sarah wrote a post for Strollerderby yesterday that cracked me up. Check out the picture and the comments. Good Lord, what is this world coming to? If I ever hear that you knitted naked body suits for your family, I swear, I’ll try my best to have you committed.
-Oops! I wrote a column for Mamazine a few weeks ago and totally forgot to link to it. It’s about something I won’t do that I think a lot of you will probably disagree with. I’d love to hear your thoughts on it, particularly if you have teens of your own.
-I’m supposed to meet up with the glorious Susie Sunshine (who’s traveling through TN) in a couple of hours and I’m so excited! Details later.
-Reviews! Nasal sanitizer (Bizarre, but funny!), a not-so-good book that’s getting lots of attention, plus the long-awaited Dyson review and the reason (I’m convinced) that I don’t have stretch marks!
This should keep you busy for a while- Enjoy!
>It did, indeed, take awhile to get through all that. Great stuff, Ms. No-Longer-Size-2.
>cell phones in restaurants — argh!!!
>actually, you do look awesome!and just think, how cute is the baby if you look this great now?gah. i need to see the baby!
>You look fabulous!! Wish I looked that good during ANY part of my pregnancies!
>You look great Momma Lindsay!! Is there a lot of kicking going on in there, reacting to all this estrogen?
>Lord. You look FABULOUS. I posted a similar pic way back in October here:http://gingajoy.blogspot.com/2006/10/and-speaking-of-no-shame.htmlyou'll be glad to know that I am now completely thin, toned and tan (SNORT!) (tucks stomach into stretch pants)actually, I kind of miss my massive, majestic self. (see how the hormones kick in? See???)
>you look totally sexy. no really. I am sooo jealous.
>As always, thanks for hosting the Perfect Posts and writing such funny stuff!I posted a 9 month pregnant picture of myself at my place, but I was so camera shy by that point that I was hiding behind furniture. If there’s a next time, maybe I’ll be braver?
>Can I tell you how turned on I am. I better not. Be prepared for plenty of pevy Googlers. There is a fetish for everything.Seriously, you are looking very good.
>you look fabulous!
>You look gorgeous!
>You look stunning!!
>Ooh..Hot Momma! Really, I wish I could have pulled of a look that sexy when I was HUGE (ha! j/k). You saw the acne…I wasn’t going there. I totally agree about cell phones in restaurants. I don’t even like being NEAR someone on their cell – unless I’m the one who needs to take a call, of course.
>Do you know what I said right before Hubs took this picture?”Hold on. I think there’s a way to hide my double chin. Okay. Go.”
>You look ridiculously hot for a preggo.I’m going to go take my picture down.Yours is like Glamour — mine is like Farm Animals Weekly.
>You are so adorable. And you totally put my pregnancy pics to shame. If I looked half as cute as you do, I would have popped out more of the little buggers…And cell phones in restaurants are tacky. I hate it.
>I love your belly. But I won’t touch it. Promise.
>You’re much smaller than I was…I just realized I have TWO really huge belly shots…honestly…if you wanna see ’em I’ll email ’em, but no way they go on my blog!!!
>WHATEVER. OF COURSE. You look like a supermodel. Why is it always the pretty girls that complain they are “huge”?
>LOVE the pose =) You look great Mamma!
>You look mahvelous dahling!Seriously, you look great and when people say stupid things, just tell them “I can’t believe you actually said that?!!” and laugh while you watch them try and get their big, fat feet out of the mouths.
>I have a friend whose belly was so big during her second pregancy that people started saying, “you must be due any day now!” and, “you look about to pop!” when she was FIVE months pregnant. I kid you not. Imagine hearing those comments for FOUR months!
>Thanks for the belly pic! You look great!
>I’m always in awe of women who get so big during their pregnancies. I went from a size 8 to a 10 (uk sizing) when I was pregnant and afterwards nobody would believe my daughter was mine. You look great though.
>Um thanks. I think.
>Omigod! You are totally hot! I’m not that good looking not pregnant. I’m sorry but I have to hate you now!
>hey, you look good, girl!!!!! what color lipstick is that? love it!
>How does your face still look so good? My face was the very first thing to go, followed quickly by my waistline. Acne, oh the acne! And my cheeks, which are normally round, got ridiculously chipmunk like. My nose got even bigger than it is now. A pretty pregnant lady, I was not. So kudos to you, for still looking fine. That cellphone article you wrote and the comments were hilarious. Mobile Talker didn’t seem to realize that it wasn’t only his phone conversation (the tone and volume of which never seem to match the flow of casual dining conversation) but the actual ringing of his phone as well. I hate to sound like Bill O’Reilly (because I hate Bill O’Reilly), but it really seems to fall into the category of the coarsening of our society. A lot of people can’t seem to be bothered with politeness. And that sucks.
>It was a compliment,honestly. I just need to work on saying things better. Blooming and beautiful are two words that spring to mind.