Maternity Sale at Old Navy - Get 25 % your purchase off!

Hello to all the mama's and mamas-to-be out there! Just a quick post letting everyone know that Old Navy is having a big summer sale going on right NOW! You can get 25% off your entire purchase choosing coupon code: THANKYOU25 at the checkout!

Now i love shopping as much as the next gal, and shopping for maternity clothes is no exception! But, since we're only pregnant for a reality short period of time ( even though it can feel like an ice age ) most of us dont have the dinero to drop a grand on a whole new wardrobe that we'll only be sporting for a few months!

Prenatal Yoga - a great way to stay in shape, or get in shape gently when pregnant!

Im a HUGE fan of yoga, pilates, elliptical trainers and belly dancing :) But when pregnant i take my exercise down a notch, just to be on the safe side.

So i love to keep up my shape with some gentle prenatal yoga. I LOVE this GAIAM prenatal flow. If you've never tried one of their DVD's here's a quick peak. Its very easy, and i really like that they show augmentation for all three trimesters! :)



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Pregnant and Slightly Delusional

I love being pregnant. Please don't get me wrong. Its a miracle every time and i am thankful for the blessing...it just that when i am...and sort of in shock about it....i have the WEIRDEST dreams!

They keep me up at night, and it easily takes smy 10 minuets to realize that im awake and that everything that i was "experiencing" - like dancing in Time Square to the Beatles, wasnt really happening!

Im already noticig my cravings starting to appear. Random overwhelming urges to eat McDonald's Fish-o-fillet sandwhich's - (a "food" - if you can call it that) which i would never want ordinarily.

My husband was sitting on the couch last night, explaining a chapter in his disertation to me and asking my oppinion on phrasing. I looked completely involved in every word that was coming out of his mouth...but all i could think of was that at that moment his head looked like a very tastey roast turkey - with a side of mashed potatoes and gravy of course! :0

Usually once i phychologically accept that im pregnant, this weirdness goes away. But it usually takes until the end of the first trimester...as i dont "relax" into the pregnancy until then. Ive miscarried in the past, and i just don't like to get my hopes up too high since the likelyhood of pontaneous miscarriage is the MOST prevalent in the 1st trimester.

So i guess my nuerosis will continue until then. Arn't you glad you read my column today?! ;)

To all the ladies out there who have been pregnant or are now: does this kind of stuff happen to you as well? please tell me im not the only one out there that gets a little wierd during pregnancy!

Confessions of a Modest Mama - " I'm pregnant?!?"

Today was a regular day for me. Im a stay at home mom ( im about to pick up a part-time office manager position working with a friend to bring in some extra dough- more about that later.) I know that typical suburban soccer mom picture probebly just flashed threw your mind. To a certain extent, i do embody this very traditional role. I never really classified myself only as a mom though. Im a mother, wife, daughter, sister, and friend. :) I have many roles besides the steryotyped ideals. It took me years to realize that i didnt need to associate my identity with a career! They should really teach this stuff in school. It would have saved me alot of trouble and heartache in my teens and early 20's while in college trying to be perfect at everything, having it all, and somehow still managing to get married, be a wife and mother before i turned 30!

Anyhow, I woke up early and pushed the "start" button on the coffee maker. I always fill the water and the coffee filter the night before...thats how groggy I am in the morning...water and coffee grounds would be everywhere but in their little compartments if i tried to attempt this at 6 am! I know its lazy, but after having two kids back to back, having surgery and needing to help get a dazed husband out the door...the less i have to think of the better!

The morning started off the same. i run a little online accessory shop, so after my 1 and 2 year old boys had finished their breakfast, i set to work printing and filling orders. By the kids nap time i was ready for coffee number 3, and a quick moment alone on the couch flipping thru our mail. I wasnt concentrating much because my mind had been wondering. Id been feeling really weird lately: hungry, moody, bloated, a little bit of a backache...and very emotional. i wrote it off as "my cycle must be starting soon". But then i realized that i'd been writing off my cycle for a couple of weeks now.

I went to the bathroom and decided to clear up any rediculous suspicions that i had. Ive been known to be quite wrong about these things in the past - even seeing "phantom" lines on negative pregnancy tests! You see, I just recently had my gall bladder removed, and the idea that i could get pregnant was light years away from my mind. I only recntly finished healing and was finally able to pick up the kids again without worry of busting my stitches. :)

I did the little pee-on-the-stick test, set it on the sink, washed up and proceeded to collect up all the laundry around the house. I would have forgotten entirley about the test, accept that we keep the detergant in the bathroom - and there was my little test strip still happily resting there waiting for me. I picked it up and barely glanced at it, assuming i already knew the result. I bent over to toss it into the trash when my eye caught site of a 2nd pink line! It was a little weak...but a very clearly marked line and not one of those shadow marks that happens when you let it sit out all day. I did a double take, ran out of the bathroom into the living room and put the test directly in the sun...as though the extra light would change the result or something! >:o

TWO lines! "Im pregnant? What? WAIT? HHHOOOWWW???"

Good news always seems to come when you least expect it.