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Throwback Thursday: Strawberry Shortcake Girls

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This is Emily and me around Christmas 1980 when I was three and she was about a year-and-a-half. This picture is infamous in our family because it’s the only formal one Em and I ever had taken together. In February 1981, her sister Anna came along and ruined it all for me. I didn’t have any sisters so that was the end of me getting my pic taken in matching outfits! THANKS ANNA, GEEZ!! Actually when we were little, Emily and I used to tease Anna for not being in it. Then a few years ago, when Strawberry Shortcake came back into fashion, I bought the three of us Strawberry Shortcake shirts for Christmas and we took a snapshot so we could finally all be in a picture together with matching outfits. Somehow, it wasn’t as cute as I imagined it would be, which is why I’m not posting it here!

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WFMW: BellaBand

Now that I’ve hit week 13, my pants are getting a bit tight.

Ok, that’s such a lie – my pants were “a bit” tight at negative-three weeks pregnant, so now it’s past the point of no return.

Thank goodness for the BellaBand!

The BellaBand is a fun little contraption that fits around your mid-section. It’s fitted and elasticky (is that a word?) and it’s great for when your pants just won’t button any more. Slide on the BellaBand and you can wear your pants unbuttoned!

The best part is that the BellaBand is helpful at every stage of pregnancy – helping out with the too-tight regular pants, holding up the too-loose maternity pants, making sure your gianormous belly doesn’t peek out under your shirt, and, in the post-partum days, once again helping out with your too-tight regular pants!

The BellaBand comes in lots of different colors. I have the black one with lace trim, and I wear it just about every day. They are for sale in many stores and tons of websites. I bought mine at Mom4Life – free shipping on all US orders – need I say more?

I’m sure this comes as no surprise, but the BellaBand was created by a mom who couldn’t button her pants either… and we all love to support the businesses of other moms, right?

I love my BellaBand – it works for me!

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This is your brain on Pregnancy. Any questions?

It’s official – I am a victim of pregnancy brain.

I don’t know if all my blood is flowing to my uterus and not my head or what, but I am seriously dumb these days.

I just can’t think.

I can’t remember words – I’ve been dangerously close to having a smaller vocabulary than Kate for about a year now, but in the last 13 weeks she has definitely pulled ahead. I find myself stopping mid-sentence because I have no idea what comes next.

This “word problem” makes it rather difficult to hold conversations, too. Combine that with the fact that I just can’t think of anything to say, and it adds up to me having the personality of a telephone pole.

This absent-mindedness (to say the least) is starting to become dangerous… this weekend I cruised straight through a stop sign – didn’t even see it until it was in the rear-view mirror – and then the next day I turned right on red without so much as a pause.

Let’s all hope that I can get through the rest of this pregnancy without losing my job, alienating my friends and wrecking my car!!

Oh, and please tell me it gets better… Jenny just laughed at my affliction and told me that “I-have-two-kids brain” makes pregnancy brain look minor!

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