Happiness is not…
…starting to show this early on. But seeing as I started to show at 9 weeks with Chickpea, I’m not totally surprised. But, happiness is getting a care package from Mom yesterday! She sent a few items with a friend’s mom who is in town visiting for three weeks (a side application here: it is indeed possible to visit). So that means I now have the bella bands I ordered just before we left the States which didn’t arrive in time for us to take them. I wanted to try them when I was pregnant with Chickpea, but by the time I heard of them, I was already past that stage of dreaming that I could still fit into my normal jeans. Have you tried them? I’m wearing one now, and I think they’re great. My only clothing issue right now is just not being able to button my jeans – I can still zip them up just fine – so wearing the bella band means I can wear the jeans and not worry about my unbuttonedness showing.
So that’s my product endorsement of the day.
In other news, we’re doing well. It has been cool and rainy, which is a first since our arrival. It has been soooo nice enjoying the cool breezes and leaving our windows open while we sleep. We’re delaying the purchase of our air conditioners until early next month, so the breeze is a welcome arrival. It actually thunderstormed and rained really hard in the middle of Saturday night, and the next morning, everything was covered in dried, splattered mud. “Hmm, that’s weird,” I reasoned, but didn’t give it another thought. Later that morning I was chit-chatting with an American woman who’s lived here 20 years, and she asked if we noticed that last night it was raining mud. She said every now and then we’ll get an attack of muddy rain, coming all the way from the Sahara Desert. This does not mean we live super close to the Sahara, mind you. I was completely surprised, and have since enjoyed all the “wash me” memos (in English) hand-painted on car windshields around town. Let’s just say I’m glad it didn’t rain mud at, say, lunchtime, when we would most likely be out and about. Yikes.
(Cool photo from this guy in where else? – Austin.)
posted: 07 May 22
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With my first I was SO excited to show, because I was SO excited to be pregnant. Since then I’ve been equally excited for pregnancies, but more *relieved* to show because it gave an excuse for the leftover pre-existing tummy pooch. Being a short woman and not having lost all the baby weight between babies, I dislike looking pregnant when I’m not, so I love that “filling up the pooch” excuse!
Raining mud? Oh, my boys would like that!!!
i purchased some bella bands for this pregnancy, but alas, by teh time I got them I was already past the point where i could fit into regular jeans. so i haven’t really had a chance to try them out! i hear they’re also great post-partum, when you’re losing weight and getting back into your regular jeans. so i am looking forward to that possibility….. right now it feels like i may never fit into regular jeans again.
(being currently 35 weeks along…)
Bella bands… what a cool idea! I actually checked the link.
Muddy rain? Oh my. You said: “It has been soooo nice enjoying the cool breezes and leaving our windows open while we sleep.” I can only imagine the heat. Wow! (I think I might like it, actually.) Blessings!
I got such a thrill looking at the dirty car art site! He head is still turned sideways as I try and figure out how in the world he pulls that stuff off! People are cool.