Red Leather Pants
I own red leather pants. They are really sexy, and would have been really expensive, as in a-comma-in-the-price-tag-expensive, save that I found them at Filene’s Basement in Boston.It turns out that the body to wear red leather pants and the purse strings to buy them are rarely found together.
They haven’t fit for years. I think I wore them twice.
I’m thinking I should try them on and if they don’t fit now, after nursing twins, just accept that they will NEVER FIT AGAIN and unload them on ebay.
It’s been a rough couple of days. Someone described raising twins as “slamming yourself against the unmeetable demands of each day.” The kids are teething, I’m tired, it’s frigid outside. B. has to fly to Florida for a work thing next week and I find myself jealous of him. It’s sick to be jealous of having to fly to Florida on a business trip, it’s not like it will be fun. And yet. And yet. Housebound and overwhelmed, I’m feeling like I have nothing. There is nothing in my life outside of mothering. And that’s hard. Maybe tomorrow I will feel more chipper about this.
Stumble it!
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January 24th, 2007 10:09
Thanks for the comment!
I found the first 3 months the hardest, the next ‘milestone’ is 6 months, and then 12 months. With teething thrown in there! Have you tried Hylands teething tablets? They are awesome! It seems like they cut teeth, and are happy for a little while and they are back to cutting more…
I remember feeling the way you are..and I still have those kinds of days. They come and go, but you’ll remember the happy times more. Hang in there! Time goes by really quickly…in some ways!
January 24th, 2007 10:34
You should give the pants a try! You may just surprise yourself! Afterall, nothing if more gratifying than fitting into clothes that were too small pre-pregnancy.
Hang in there!! Teething is rough, Infant Tylenol and cold teething rings help.
January 24th, 2007 12:35
“Great,” the husband says. “Now I guess YOU’RE gonna be wanting red leather pants.”
To which I respond, “well, duh!”
January 24th, 2007 20:55
But there IS something in your life outside of mothering!
Red leather pants!
January 24th, 2007 21:13
One time, my husband called me from a business trip to tell me that he was completely exhausted. He had wanted to go back to the hotel and sleep, but everyone else wanted to go out to dessert so he had to go along. This was on a day where I had cleaned up projectile vomit from our twins who had stomach viruses. It’s not an even comparison at all–as much as business travel sucks, being housebound with twins…