I will just put this out there: I find it completely impossible to be an effective parent while wearing skinny jeans.
I don’t know, it might be just me, but hey, God has blessed me with a curvy figure, so those skinny little leg holes don’t have quite enough room to fit my calves (and let’s not even talk about the lack of support for my hips and leftover baby belly). Sometimes, I get a little brave and throw them on when I’m hanging out with my kids. It always seems to be on a day when I’m going somewhere in public and inevitably, as soon as I’m dressed, Ellie’s hands suddenly seem to be coated with a thin layer of butter and everything she touches falls to the ground.
Is it really possible to bend over and pick anything up gracefully while wearing skinny jeans??
I share this because when I put on the skinny jeans, it’s like kryptonite for my mom-ness (surely not a word, but yeah.) and while sometimes that’s ok, I feel like being a mom is so ingrained in me right now that losing any of the Mom Super Powers gets me totally off-kilter.
Case in point: Last weekend, John and I hit the city with some childless friends of ours. The girls were with my mom and dad over night, we were staying downtown… I decided to rock the skinny jeans. And high heels.
Please understand that, for my entire life, I’ve been an early-to-bed, early-to-rise kind of girl. This extends far beyond the years that I have had babies, but at least before the children, 10 pm didn’t seem like the middle of the night. On this particular evening, we had dinner reservations at 8:00 (gulp.) and then tickets to a comedy show at 10:30 (people actually go out of their homes that late at night??). “Have fun!” they said. “You need to get out and live it up!” they said.
In my fresh, hip, and completely impractical outfit, hot dang, I was invincible. Don’t get me wrong, I had a blast. We had great conversation, I got to drink a glass of wine uninterrupted (but only one because Good Lord, I can buy two bottles at Meijer for that price) and have adult conversations… It was fabulous. So fabulous that we decided to keep the evening going until the wee hours of the morning. Irresponsible, but fabulous.
One week later, I am still tired.
And those jeans? They have been banished to the back of my closet, hidden under a pile of more reasonable boot-cuts, until my next temporary lapse in sanity.
Yo soy La Lay 
Maggie! All I can say is, L.O. L!!!!!!! Thanks for the smile 😊
Did you ever rock those pregnancy skinny jeans with the belly support? I still do and I’m post baby!
Haha, no. I could never find a pair that fit right… my calves…. they just don’t seem to fit in anything. I’ll try again if we end up having more kiddos!
Maggie Lay you didn’t miss a beat of hitting my funny bone! Soooo glad you had such a great time in spite of those curvy calves! Lmbo!
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