August 14, 2010

• {my bandaided-belly-button story}

  I was supposed to meet my mom for lunch this afternoon and running late {surprise!}, so I quickly just reached in my closet and grabbed one of my sundresses that didn’t need ironing.. or atleast too obviously. Before heading out the door I walked past the full length mirror in our room and stopped. Something grabbed my attention I hadn’t noticed before – actually, it’s never happened to me in any of my other pregnancies….

  My belly button was sticking out!

  Which I can’t even say “belly button” any more without thinking of this song~
  I can hear Emma’s little voice in my head singing, “belwee buddon, ooo-ooo.”
  I thought I’d stick it on for fun to watch with your kids

  {you’ll for sure have to turn the playlist off for this one.. the two don’t mix well}

  I stopped and cocked my head to one side thinking of how funny and just.. odd it looked.
  Then, took my index finger and pushed it down.
  As if thinking I could poke it back in or something?
  duh.

  Since my shoes were already on – the ones my husband has to buckle for me I didn’t really feel like changing, or have time. And since I didn’t think it would look noRmaL to walk around with my finger on my belly button all afternoon I suddenly got a genius thought…

  “I’ll bandaid it.”

  I went down the hall to the bathroom and was happy to discover we actually did have some left in the house…
  Usually when I buy them the casualties seem to instantly double round here.

  One didn’t seem thick enough.. so I put on a few {like 3or4or6??} more.
  And was quite pleased with my little square invention that DID work to hold the bulge in…

  However.. like most of my impulsive ideas I didn’t necessarily think it through to the end.  :/

  Let’s just saw I now know that all these years that I’ve told my kids ripping their bandaids off quickly will be less painful than pulling it off slowly is A Lie~!!! It’s a wonder I didn’t rip my whole belly button out in the process. I now have this nice square patch of bare skin in the middle of my stomach that kinda sorta in a cool way resembles the state of Montana! Actually I’m not sure what that state looks like – I just randomly picked one. But it does look like the shape of a state. I think. Though I guess you can’t really take my word for it since I’m not sure what they all even look like, right? and yes, I’m a homeschool mom – but that has nothing to do with it!
  
  I had all these spiritual analogies come to mind about wanting to stick a “bandaid” over the things in our lives we don’t want others to see~ which is why I began this post to start with. But.. as I watched the belly button video above they all seemed to have left me! Think I’ll go find a ice pack and head to bed instead.

  a few notes to self on the subject as i close though::
  1. embrace the changes in your body
  2. but avoid sundresses that reveal them so obviously
  3. and remember, pregnant women in their last trimester seldom have genius thoughts!

   

  happy weekend~!

  
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  (¸.·´ (¸.·´ (¸.·¨¯`♥ amber 

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