Put a cow in a bathing suit...
Here I am at 25 weeks - the gorgeous body curtesy
of Suzie and her equally gorgeous appetite :)
The cute jacket is a gift from my mom. :)
Yesterday I went to my first "prenatal water exercise"- class. It was fun - and funny. You know how movements in the water always seem kind of clumsy and uncoordinated? Well imagine that, only with about 6-7 women with big bellies. It's fun to do but I sure felt like a balloon. I had a harder time trying to prevent myself from floating than doing some of the exercises. Plus my maternity tankini top decided to slide all the way up (I guess my belly STILL isn't big enough) and so between trying to stay decent and keeping my feet on the ground there was no need for additional physical effort. :)
It was fun to be around other pregnant women though. We exchanged the usual questions... do you know what you're having?... when are you due?
But actually... I was more interested in comparing bellies and behinds. I assume they did the same, but we all stayed terribly polite, of course. I soon realized that comparing was futile. I didn't know what these girls looked like before they were pregnant, if they had been sick or not etc. Plus it helped that I liked my bathing suit the best. I walked away quite satisfied. I also realized that just because someone's pregnant like me, doesn't mean we have anything in common. Pretty smart, huh? It might sound silly to you but given my worries about how motherhood will change me, I'm prone to look for some sort of example of what things will be like. So I look at these girls and realize, that pregnancy does not make people similar, so motherhood won't turn me into some bad example of a mother I've seen either.
Yeah, yeah I know, this is very simply logic, anybody could've told me that, but hey, you are supposed to admire me for my honesty at this point and not laugh at how dumb I'm getting!
You look beautiful!
Also, that bathing suit is adorable and you look like your Mom from the pictures. :)
Your picture, your mom, and your bathing suit are all extremely cute.
Isn't it funny when you think you'll have things in common with people just because you have one thing in common with them? I recently went to a Catholic Young Adult event and was so excited. Catholic (which I am) and young (which I also am)! Perfect fit, right? Anyway, I had nothing in common with these people. Sure we were all Catholic and young-ish, but that was really it. Ah, well. I don't really need to leave the house any more than I do, anyway. :-)
thanks for the compliments girls!
maryanne, i think i felt out of place at almost every young catholic group i ever tried to join! sadly "catholic" can mean so many different things to different people...
oh yes, how right you are, you wise young catholic people ;-) - still I have an advantage: I am catholic, but I really don't have to consider myself young any more, so I don't have to go to any "catholic young adult events", I just leave out young and adult and then what is left is just "catholic event" and the only one I can think of is mass, so that's where I go :-))) - well, don't take this too literally, there are many very nice young catholic adults, or just catholic, but perhaps paradoxically enough catholic events are not the places where you meet them: how about the internet??? :-))))))))
dinka, sorry I am using you webpage as a message board or a chatroom, I hope you don't mind ... i just feel the need to comment on everything I read here .... is that ok?
Tessa,
You're quite right. And I did meet my wonderful, Catholic boyfriend on the internet! Where else can you just order up a nice Catholic boy just like you're ordering coffee? :-)
Even the word "young" seems unclear. Some of the kids at the event looked barely 17 (no offense, Daniel!) and some people looked well over 40.
Oh, well. I've met a lot of nice young Catholics on the internet (like our own Dinka) which is nice.
This is turning into a chatroom and it's fun!
Dinka,
Of course you felt out of place with young Catholics. Haven't we established that you feel out of place everywhere? You have the foreign gene! Accept it! :-)))
i wish people were disciplined like me and kept things in order! chats in a chatroom, comments on a comment section... obviously i'm in big distress over this mess and misuse. ;)
ds
Hi there, you look gorgeous as usual.
About other Catholics, well I guess I must have the "foreign gene" also, I don't fit in with anyone. It is hard not being able to fit in, but I think it is not always a bad thing. People are like sheap after all, they all just do what everyone else does. So if you think you feel different it gives you the courage to think different.
I think I am posting this in the wrong section.......oh well.
Happy easter BTW.
Hi Dinka!
You really look good!
Can`t you come over far a coffee?
Hi Dinka (& all of you in this chatroom)!
When read this, Dinka, I thought I have to place a comment. And all what I wanted to say was already said by Maryanne and Tessa! Strange? No - Because this experience will always accompany us. With children you'll probably have contact to many other people, but this experience will remain...