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<\/p>\nYesterday hubby and I took the day of.\u00a0 We left the girls with my Aunt and Uncle and my cousin went with us to the Kiss Country Chili Cookoff.\u00a0 The cookoff is really a country music concert, with surprisingly little chili, and is a pretty big deal in the area (at least for country music lovers).\u00a0 The concert featured 5 acts and lasted over 7 hours.\u00a0 This was our first time and the sun was blazing hot and there was little cloud cover (which resulted in an aching sunburn, even with sunscreen) but we had a really great time.\u00a0 The changeovers between acts were ridiculously long and the porta-pottys: not my favorite thing (usually I avoid them at all costs and just hold it but a baby rockin out on your bladder makes this a hard task!).<\/p>\n
The parking gates opened at 1am and the concert venue at 8:30. \u00a0By the time we got there at 9, people had been tailgating all morning (and probably been at the bars before that).\u00a0 Walking through the crowd of mostly college students, it struck me:\u00a0 I\u2019m totally a mom!\u00a0 It\u00a0 wasn\u2019t just the behaviors that were so drastically different, I looked different.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t even the little baby bump I\u2019m sporting these days that made me stand out (some of those girls had beer bellies that rivaled my baby belly), but amongst the sea of short shorts and barely covered booties, I realized I was wearing \u201cmom\u201d shorts!<\/p>\n
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And I don\u2019t mean maternity shorts, I haven\u2019t subjected myself to that torture yet.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never been a fan of maternity bottoms.\u00a0 The pants I bought (a pair of jeans and a pair of cords) when I pregnant with Honeybun\u00a0didn\u2019t fit until the last few weeks when it was June in Florida and they were basically unwearable.\u00a0 The same pants never fit with Sugarplum and I ended up splurging on a pair of jeans at 34 weeks just to survive the last little bit in Dublin.\u00a0 Most of my \u201cmaternity\u201d bottoms are really just skirts and shorts that I bought a few sizes too big.<\/p>\n
I also have a few pieces that I wore back in the day when I was heavier (before I stopped dancing and lost all my muscle and before my two girls literally sucked the life out of me\u2014by breastfeeding that is).\u00a0 So that\u2019s where my wardrobe currently sits, my old \u201cfat\u201d pants that are a few sizes bigger than I generally wear between babies.\u00a0 But the shorts I wear fully cove my booty, and more.\u00a0 I go for the \u201cBermuda\u201d styles that reach around the knee and this is where my \u201cmommyness\u201d showed amongst the youngins.\u00a0 Once in the park where the concert was held, I saw a lot more women dressed like me, and they were also all moms, and much much older than me (I think).<\/p>\n
Sometimes I forget how old I really am now. Sometimes hubby and I will tune into The Real World<\/i> still, just for laughs.\u00a0 When I started watching it everyone was much older than me and now I have to consciously remind myself that they are all much younger than me.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing wrong with getting older, it\u2019s just sometimes hard to remember that I am.\u00a0 I\u2019m no longer a spritely, just out of college adult (which is how I usually think of myself) so instead of focusing on my aging (and subsequent aching body), I\u2019m taking joy in watching my children grow and mature and I can\u2019t even begin to imagine what it will feel like when they are wearing \u201cmom\u201d shorts too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday hubby and I took the day of.\u00a0 We left the girls with my Aunt and Uncle and my cousin went with us to the Kiss Country Chili Cookoff.\u00a0 The cookoff is really a country music concert, with surprisingly little chili, and is a pretty big deal in the area (at least for country music […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-mommy-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4546,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/4546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}