The Planning Stage

Geez! I haven't spent time with you since Jan 17th! I had a lot of New Year's resolutions and one of them was to spend more time documenting the changes in our house. Well, I haven't done that much have I?

I have been very tired and very un-virgo like- not worrying about the day to day schedule of life and making it perfect. What is causing these unusual behavior? Pregnancy! YIPPIE! The baby is due to arrive September 13th- so yes, another Virgo in the house. Please, pray for my husband.

So, I am finally feeling more like myself nowadays-not so sick and nauseous with a little boost of energy. Like my doctor says, I am slowly starting to enjoy the pregnancy. I certainly enjoy the eating and resting part of it. I also am enjoying thinking about what kind of parents my husband and I are going to be. We have wanted a child for so long and finally, it is here! I must admit, I am scared out of my wits and at the beginning, I admit that I thought, "Oh God, what have we done?"

Well, that feeling has subsided and I am starting to plan, plan, plan!

For starters, I was worried that I was going to be out of my clothes rather quickly. I stressed about this and talked about clothes non-stop with my husband. I figured one day I would wake up and not have a thing to put on to go to work except sweats.... I know I drove him crazy. Luckily, with my mother's help (and her huge material closet), she boosted my wardrobe by making maternity tops for me. This has taken a huge load off my shoulders.

I have also been working on some sewing projects. I first raided my "give to goodwill" bag and found plenty of dress pants, jeans, capris, and shorts that I could work with. I then turned them into maternity pants.

Here are some good tutorials:

Maternity Pants 1


Maternity Pants 2

These are so simple and well, it didn't cost much. I purchased 10 yards of 2 inch elastic from ebay for $4. I used pants I was going to give away so that didn't cost anything. For the top band I used old tshirts that were going to be shop towels or goodwill and so, that didn't cost anything either. So, total cost $4 and time spent was about 30 minutes-1 hour for each pair.