Heartache :(

So, I've had a bit of a heartache today.  With only three days till I am "over-due"  and a possible two weeks of pregnancy remaining, my poor, well-loved maternity pants have become threadbare.  In the bare-bottom-ish area.  A rather important part of a pair of pants, if you ask me. I'm quite sad about the whole affair. These pants saw me through my last pregnancy, and almost to the end of this one :(    They have a few war wounds already.  Like an ink stain on the back pocket.  Put there five weeks ago while I was moving....

I'm sure the bare spot is due to frequent washing.  It must be.  They are my only pair of out-of-the-house pants.  I have a pair of black stretch pants that I wear around the house.  I will not be seen in public in them.  They are only good for lounging, and wearing on the desperate laundry day.  Most days, my beloved pants are thrown into the wash at bed time and dried in the morning, to be worn by the time I have to drive to school.  It's a great system.  Yes, the bare-ness was definitely the result of frequent WASHINGS!  Not WEARINGS!  Definitely not caused by the rubbing of my thighs as I walk.  My thighs don't do that!

So I am left with a few options.  I have a lovely pair of orange striped pj's that I bought for our trip to Florida.  They match a lovely orange T-shirt with flip-flops on the chest.  Yes, I could wear those in public....If my house burnt down!  I also have a pair of plaid green pj's that I have been "over-washing" for the last three years.  They are a little worse for wear, but could pass at school in the morning.  My other options....Patch the bare-bottom-ish pants and hope that no-one notices, and that no one I see has read this blog and is now checking to see if they are the bare-bottom-ish pants (how embarrassing!) 

I really don't want to invest in a new pair of pants at this late stage!  I mean, who's to say I will ever even need a pair of maternity pants again! (No we haven't decided yet!)  What if I go into labor tonight ( it COULD happen!  Don't laugh!), and don't need the new pair that I plan to buy?   Can I get away with hiding out at home for the next two weeks?  No, I don't thinks so.  I could start wearing skirts everywhere I go.  This is a viable option.  I do have a few skirts.  My dear sister Lacey has been wearing a "house dress" around home lately ( her husband oh so lovingly has renamed it a "castle dress".  We are both at the end of our pregnancies, btw).  I could resort to a "house dress", as well.  Hmmm.

Anyway, if you do happen to read this blog, and you do run into me before this babe arrives, please be polite and comment on my radiance and glow, and not whatever I happen to be wearing on my bottom-ish area!  We may still want to be friends at the end of this week, and my hormones are not very friendly these days!  Sooooo, if I am still wearing my bare-bottom-ish pants, don't go looking to see how well I mended them!  :D