My New Look

Okay - I'll be honest here - with all three of my pregnancies i ballooned to a whopping size. After each of their births i went through post partum style regression, baggy sweats, greasy hair, unkempt eyebrows, hair in a perpetual bun. I'm being very vulnerable here but you mama's (hopefully) know what i mean, right? Well, i didn't give birth physically to my twins, but i went through nine months of pregnancy, a long labor (wait, wait wait) and an intense delivery (ie - ethiopia itself).

And so i have let myself kinda go. I mean, why not? What's so different about having these babies except for the fact that this time I HAVE TWO. Gone is the make-up, jewelry, stylish clothes, fixed hair and eyebrows. Now my hair is always needing a wash, and my clothes (sweats and T's since that's ALL i can fit into - more later) never fail to have some kind of spit-up stain on them.

And i also have about 20 extra pounds. the truth is, i have to work very hard every day of my life to stay my size 6 when i am at the weight i feel comfortable with. It's not something that comes easily to me and although I always balloon out with babies, i work myself down after a comfortable, food-enriched year or so. I decided i deserved that pleasure again with these babies and ate my way to this size the whole time their birth mama was pregnant with them. I have no clothes to wear; it's quite sad. i really couldn't deny the privilege of this "post partum style regression" to the girls now could i?

So here is a picture of my look right now. Find the spit-up, the bags under my eyes, my hairstyle. I know this is really only vanity but i needed an outlet to share after seeing this picture Isaac took!

ACTUALLY - notice how beautiful and peaceful my precious, sleepy girls are and how handsome my oldest son is.