So hey!
We're back from our vacation and I wish I was still there, only in better shape!
We have access to a house that is at a resort, of sorts. There are mansions that people call "cabins". And the owners drive to their "cabins" in what they probably refer to as "jalopies" or, what I know them as, Hummers.
Our family has had the joy of visiting Black Butte Ranch for the past 3 years. It really is a dream.
I have been preparing for a summer trip by doing the usual; exercising, using self-tanning lotion, and making sure the family was stocked up on bathing suits (me especially!) and flip-flops.
So we get to the pool on our first day and I am struck by how the women look. I know that they are mother's because I see young children running to them pool side and calling them "mom". However, they don't look like they actually gave birth to any of these little children! I mean, where's the tummy ladies? Where's the child bearing hips and thighs?!
I was feeling so out of place. I really have been so diligent with my exercises, just trying my best, but there was no way I looked quite like them.
Then I see her. We are in the pool together. She is playing with one of her children, as am I. She and I almost have the same bathing suit on. Her back is to me and I notice that her body shape is the same as mine. Yeah!
I feel relived that I'm not the only mom with a mom-shaped-body!
Then she turns around...
She's 6 months pregnant.
O.K.
Well, somebody has to look like me! Maybe I'm a role model for a mom that is still too shy and is hiding under her bath towel. I hope.
We're back from our vacation and I wish I was still there, only in better shape!
We have access to a house that is at a resort, of sorts. There are mansions that people call "cabins". And the owners drive to their "cabins" in what they probably refer to as "jalopies" or, what I know them as, Hummers.
Our family has had the joy of visiting Black Butte Ranch for the past 3 years. It really is a dream.
I have been preparing for a summer trip by doing the usual; exercising, using self-tanning lotion, and making sure the family was stocked up on bathing suits (me especially!) and flip-flops.
So we get to the pool on our first day and I am struck by how the women look. I know that they are mother's because I see young children running to them pool side and calling them "mom". However, they don't look like they actually gave birth to any of these little children! I mean, where's the tummy ladies? Where's the child bearing hips and thighs?!
I was feeling so out of place. I really have been so diligent with my exercises, just trying my best, but there was no way I looked quite like them.
Then I see her. We are in the pool together. She is playing with one of her children, as am I. She and I almost have the same bathing suit on. Her back is to me and I notice that her body shape is the same as mine. Yeah!
I feel relived that I'm not the only mom with a mom-shaped-body!
Then she turns around...
She's 6 months pregnant.
O.K.
Well, somebody has to look like me! Maybe I'm a role model for a mom that is still too shy and is hiding under her bath towel. I hope.