You girls are all too kind. I think I should post a picture on here once a week, just for my self esteem booster. :) As we all know, these last few weeks just feel huge and annoying. I am trying to enjoy them though, since its almost over.
Gina, the dress I bought just this past weekend at the Motherhood outlet in Gilroy - love it! I use it mainly to go over my suit, but lately I've been wearing it around the house and its SO comfy!
Haha! I loved your comment, Erin. No... it wasn't this big last month. Its sort of morphed into something quite large over the past two weeks. I've dropped too so I'm sad to say, I waddle a bit when I walk. :( My OB said the baby already weighs at least 6 1/2 pounds so its no wonder the belly is growing!
well, I think you all look absolutely beautiful when you're pregnant, so we're even. :) Thank you for all the compliments. You girls are really too kind.
I am seriously flattered by all your compliments. I'm always the one telling pregnant women they look so good, but I don't see it the same way on myself. I need to listen to my husband a little more. ;)
My secret? Chasing two toddlers around and keeping a busy schedule. :) In all honesty, its really that. I don't diet at all when I'm pregnant and we don't own a scale, so weight is quite far from my mind. I'd rather have a healthy baby. One thing that definitely has helped me this time is the Bradley Method class we took. It reminds you to focus on eating when you're hungry and only eating food that gives good nourishment to the baby; lots of protein, fiber, good fats, etc... that has definitely helped me this time.
You really do look great! And I can see what you mean about having moved into the energy phase again, you look like you could keep going like this for a while! :)
I am so excited about this blog giveaway! Some friends of ours in Northern California have started a company called Blackflower & Company and we're doing a blog giveaway with them here! I received my tea a few days ago and it is, hands down, the best peach ginger tea I've ever had. I wanted to help them get word about their business spread and in the meantime, one of you gets to win pretty cool prizes :) The prize is 2 (4 oz.) bags of tea {your choice} and one of their very special teapots! This is an awesome giveaway, valued higher than $30 Here are the rules to follow: enter a comment in this post If you'd like to go to their website 1st, you can look around and let us know what flavor tea you'd chose and which color teapot you'd like if you win. If you have a Facebook account, be sure to 'like' them on FB and then you get to leave a 2nd comment here, letting me know and it will increase your chances of win...
This marks the one thousandth blog post for me ! If you added the blogging over at Jastef.net, I'm sure it would be far more, but I haven't blogged over there since Kara was a baby. For my simple mind, Blogger worked out much better for me. Sorry, husband. I've been at this blogging thing for almost 8 years and I'm still not sick of it! I like to write {never thought I'd say that} and I really enjoy interacting with people; friends and then strangers who become friends. Its great and its been a great way for us to share our day-to-day life with our families, since we moved. Jason and I have been mulling around what I should do for a 1,000 blog post giveaway, just for fun. Not because I think my 1,000 post is as special to all of you as it is to me. We tossed around the idea of a Kindle, since Amazon dropped the price, but it was still... too much for me. We settled on a fun idea. You get to pick the final result, so read on and then be ...
Probably like most of you Moms, I've been sick of being sick throughout the winter. Its such a fun, holiday time of year and totally stinks when you're stuck inside, with illnesses. And, if you're not a fan of getting a vaccine for every little bug that goes around, you end up realizing you have to do your research to learn how to build up the immune systems and keep your brood healthy. I'm also learning that when it comes to sickness {we're talking sickness that won't cause death}, its actually good for our bodies to learn to fight things off naturally and not constantly running to get shots or drugs to cure us from ever getting sick again {which those shots don't do anyway}. I'm no pro and my oldest child isn't even 7 yet, so I'm definitely not posting this to teach you ladies anything. And, for those of you with older kids, feel free to leave tips for how you keep your family healthy or natural ways to fight off colds and viruses. ...
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As we all know, these last few weeks just feel huge and annoying. I am trying to enjoy them though, since its almost over.
Gina, the dress I bought just this past weekend at the Motherhood outlet in Gilroy - love it! I use it mainly to go over my suit, but lately I've been wearing it around the house and its SO comfy!
My OB said the baby already weighs at least 6 1/2 pounds so its no wonder the belly is growing!
See you soon!
My secret? Chasing two toddlers around and keeping a busy schedule. :)
In all honesty, its really that. I don't diet at all when I'm pregnant and we don't own a scale, so weight is quite far from my mind. I'd rather have a healthy baby.
One thing that definitely has helped me this time is the Bradley Method class we took. It reminds you to focus on eating when you're hungry and only eating food that gives good nourishment to the baby; lots of protein, fiber, good fats, etc... that has definitely helped me this time.
Was that a detailed enough answer? :)