update and a rant
Update: David’s gone this weekend to look at houses. Me and the kids miss him, it makes for a very long day with no Daddy-time-breaks! Yesterday was also quite stressful, since Erin had a seizure. So I was trying to take care of her and both kids by myself most of the day. (After a seizure she’s disoriented and has to be given specific medication and be observed for the next few hours to make sure she doesn’t have any more seizures and therefore need a trip to the hospital.) But, today has been better and I talked to David awhile ago and it seems that the choice of what house to buy is VERY simple, so everyone wish David luck tomorrow with putting an offer on the house, hopefully we’ll have it under contract within a day or two!
Rant: So, Erin and I were watching tv the other night, and there was some commerical for a weight loss program, and I swear that 75% of the testamonials were from women who were holding babies in their “before” pictures and not holding babies in their “after” pictures. Now, like most women, my heaviest weight was when I was pregnant and the first few weeks postpartum – but for goodness sake, that’s natural! A healthy weight gain during pregnancy is to be expected, and while I’ll admit those first few days after delivery are really scary as far as looking down at your body and thinking “Oh, my gosh… what a train wreck!” the body bounces back fairly quickly. With both kids, I gained around 35 lbs while pregnant, and had lost it all by 4 months postpartum. (and I’m now in the best shape I’ve been in for years, maybe ever!) Anyway, I just feel like those commercials feed into society’s perception that attractiveness and sexiness end once a woman becomes a mother. All these women are holding babies in their before pictures, and they’re all happily empty-armed in their after pictures. It bugs me that its presented as mother=overweight and dumpy, woman without kids=sexy and slim. UGH!