So Monday marked the first day when my belly ‘just said no’ to my pants.  Bill was driving me to work and I did not have time to change – I had to wear my winter jacket around all day because I could neither button nor zip up my pants.  The belly bands are great but most certainly do not work with short sweaters!

There are only two stores in Charlottesville that sell maternity clothes.  One is an ultra-trendy, super expensive botique and the other is Target (which has the BEST tank tops but the rest of the stuff is unforgiveable), so I have been ordering the majority of my clothes on-line.  Gap Maternity seems to have decent clothing items at reasonable prices but of course I have to pay for shipping, wait for the clothes to arrive, and in many cases exchange the clothes for different sizes.  Today I received several pairs of much needed pants and sweaters, all of which I will have to exchange!  In the meantime I will have to make due with belly bands and over-sized sweaters.  Let’s hope we don’t get any last-minute invitations for a formal get together this weekend!