With this unbelievably harsh cold snap, I’ve found myself more ready than even for warmer weather! I’ve also been back at the task of saving blog posts, and coming across all of our trips to the lake last spring and summer likely hasn’t helped either. I am so ready for spring to come. I will not miss the ice, or the jackets, or the boots, or the mitts on tiny none-mitt-friendly hands, or the crazy static, or the dry lips, or the lack of lines on the roads and parking lots. Spring is welcome any time!
But SUMMER! Mmmmm! Summer is my jam. Especially this summer. ☀️ I have these moments of fear, and not wanting to “jinx” anything, but YIKES, I’m so excited for July! If all goes as I’m hoping it will, we will have our baby in the very beginning of July, and just a few weeks later, we’ll all go to the lake for a week vacation. All seven of us! I cannot WAIT!! Except, I can, because I do NOT want the baby to come yet! Please Lord, let Bambino stay safe on the inside until July, or the end of June is also acceptable, haha!
As I was day dreaming about going to the lake, I realized that I will be pretty freshly postpartum at that point, and I will have nothing to wear on the beach! Let’s have some real talk here, ladies. I’m not going to be actually going into the water, because three weeks postpartum, I will not be done recovering. *cough* bleeding *cough* So I’ll wear actual shorts or leggings on the bottom, but I’d like to have a swim top for the sake of tanning, splashing, sand, etc. When I’m pregnant, I wear a bikini, because why not? When I’m not pregnant, I usually still wear a bikini. I’ve had kids, sure, my stomach isn’t tight anymore. I’m not too ashamed of that. BUT, three weeks postpartum is a different story, and I’m not sure I’m brave enough to hit the beach in a bikini top, with the fresh jelly belly out for the world to see.
So while it felt ballsy, yesterday, I went shopping for bathing suits online. And today, I ordered a couple.
Deep breaths. I know jinxes aren’t real, but it freaks me out. Twice last year, I bought a couple of things for being pregnant in the next season, and have sorrowfully packed them up with all the other baby stuff I’ve hidden from myself. But I figure that if a bathing suit fits me now, as I’m getting progressively “thicker,” it should be able to contain some jelly belly after, correct? Tell me this makes sense. Whether it does or doesn’t, thats what I did, and I’m hoping with ALL hope that I get my chance to wear these on the beach this summer, with my new little baby sleeping the day away under the umbrella. Assuming our baby is another one that sleeps… 🤞
Doing just that alone has me pining away for warmer months, and itching to make more lake plans. However, I’m aware of where I live, and that minus temperatures are here to stay for quite some time still. But mark my words, when the snow is gone and the kids can run around outside in t-shirts and shorts again, no one will be more grateful than me!!