Growing up, my mom has always been a little chubby. She's adorable and cute and wears dorky faux denim leggings and yeah she's my mom so I love her.
I never had a mom that wanted me to be a barbie doll - she in fact wouldn't let me play with such self esteem distructors.
But last week - something happened that has never happened before. My mom can now fit into my clothes. Don't get me wrong, I'm really happy that she's lost some weight, somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 pounds in the last year. But I'm also then reminded that once upon a time I was smaller and now I've put on a couple pounds.
But in any light she is just so excited that she can now shop in the ladies clothes and not in womens section we devouted a good afternoon to going shopping, buy some new outfits and then she came home and tried on my stuff too. It's like we are teenage sisters. But instead of wearing the latest fashion mistake we both dress in pretty classic standby outfits.
It's just a little weird to ask - Mom do you have my navy pants?
Onward to my sister -- since we have a good 5.5 years between us she thinks all my clothes are old lady clothes -- but just wait - I'm sure when she starts job hunting she'll be stealing my navy pants too. Now sissy and I are about a size difference - but that is always subject to change i.e. similar to that of the polls 1+/1-.
So to head of anyone even thinking about swiping my favorite jeans -- I'm going to go get my mom a pair of real life jeans since it's probably been several decades since she's owned them and they can be her cute butt jeans and she will leave mine alone!
I love this website http://allrecipes.com/. I have been cooking a little more these days, yes, Mom has finally let me use her new pots and pans and has removed the banishment of cooking.
I don't know what has happened but I have the urge to be domestic - I could take this as the first signs of my clock begining to tick - my eggs won't shrivel up and die if I decided to make a roast or chicken florentine but instead I think I just might be bored with the usual - I'm even considering removing my own banishment on seafood and pork -- but I will proceed with baby steps of course.
Anyways -- my loose weight campaign has faltered -- could be the 4 donuts I ate for breakfast -- no 3 did not do the trick ( they were sprinkle free - so that's better, right?) But as I ate my 4th donut for my dessert lunch - I was browsing allrecipes and getting hungry again.
