Plus-Size Mommy

My Not-So-Skinny Lifestyle 

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31 weeks pregnant & counting with our 2nd daughter!! In the meantime, I'm frantically trying to finish the nursery and continue entertaining my 2 1/2 year old! Time is flying by!!! Anyone else feeling a glass or few of wine come late October with me? 💁🏼

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Confidence From Our Kids

Ever notice how your kids don't care who you are and what you do in life, as long as you love them- they love you? I just danced around the house with only a towel on my head and it hit me. My daughter doesn't care about my shape or size. My daughter just loves the memories with her momma. Talk about a much-needed confidence booster and great reminder of how thankful I am to have her in my life!

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I'm not 21.

Although my mom kept our kids for the first time since our honeymoon last night, and I challenged myself to 5 Smirnoff screwdrivers AND 6 glasses of wine... Waking up to the church bells directly across the road from our home at 9am was a "rude awakening"... Each "dong" represented a harsh reality that I am no longer 21. I am 24, I have 2 kids, and 1 dog ready to be tended to for a beginning of our Sunday shenanigans. I am continuously getting negative results on home pregnancy tests still, so of course I just am feeling hopeless and ready to "stop trying" and go with the flow- if we conceive, great! If not, okay. I am through with stressing myself out over it all. Last night, I finally got a date night with my husband and a couple friends. It was so much fun! We played card games and had a few drinks. Luckily, my husband never has liked alcohol, at all... So he's always our driver to get the kids & head home. As we were heading to get the kids, it was so nice laughing and joking with each other. It has been over 3 years together and only over 3 months having been married to one another. It really hit both of us that we've "still got it!"... We're each other's best friend... We have a great life to be thankful for; we've got a home, 2 beautiful and healthy kids, and we always have each other. Amongst all the positive energy flowing, I can't help but still remember, and actually be very grateful, that I am no longer 21. 21 was representing freedom for me and dating the guy who made me miserable & did not appreciate nor love me. We were together 4.5 years until we finally split, and then my husband came along. 21 was a no-kid lifestyle. Then came my husband, and his son. :) So these days, I am surely a little chunkier, but it's just all trying to keep up with the big heart I've got. ❤️ I am proud to no longer be "21". 😊

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A Little About Me...

Currently I am 24, married to my 27 year-old husband, we have 2 kids... Hoping to create a third! Our daughter is 2 and my step-son is 5... I'm a stay-at-home mom 85% of my week, then 2 nights a week, I bartend at a local "club" (no, not a "night club" for younger people's- I'm working at an adult-only environment with responsible and respectful people [mostly of older age]), and I love it for the sanity of myself and the "extra" small income is always nice since my husband paying "XXX" amount in child support out of each paycheck never helps. We have shared parenting with his son, so it helps making sure he is always included in as much as our daughter in nearly every aspect. We've got a dog, who drives me bonkers, but at the end of the day the kids love her and she loves them. Luckily, because her "puppy days" surely are not coming to an end anytime soon. We live in Ohio and the most excitement in our area is the county fair every fall, though t-ball season is pretty important to us too. We're a family-oriented family that honestly doesn't party or go out, unless it's to eat a meal (No pun intended). Our life was structurally built "backwards". We got together, conceived our daughter a MONTH into dating (yes, terrifying!!!) got a puppy a year and a half later. Now, after renting two different places (slowly climbing the ladder of life), we're finally in a big rental property we will reside in for a longer term 5-10 years, but not going to buy as our "forever home"... With the odds completely against us, we managed to learn to face all struggles as a husband and wife team and have made it this 3.5 years together and have been married since October 3, 2015. :) I look forward to many more years of happiness with my hubby as well! :) Feel free to like or share as we continue this journey as plus-sized Mommas!!

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Plus-Size Pregnancy and Confidence

So I'm 100% new to the "blogging world" but I'm the kind of person, what you see is what you get. I'm not the size 2, 5'1", blonde acting dumb for a man's attention. I'm the 5'11" plus-sized, 24 years old, married to my best friend, fun-loving mom of 2; (One of which is actually my 5 year old step-child but nonetheless, he is mine as much as my 2 year old daughter is). Being plus-sized always comes with difficulty. Difficulty in finding clothes to fit properly. Difficulty in how all of us have issues with the shapes of our own bodies & in return, we have an ever-fluctuating feeling of whether or not we even love our bodies. And with that comes another true fact- how we look when we are pregnant. My husband and I decided to start TTC (trying to conceive) as of a week ago. Of course I'm anxious and excited as this is our first PLANNED pregnancy! My patience is very little trying to wait and wait and wait.... Just to take that pregnancy test in hopes of a BFP (big fat positive) to pop up! With my daughter, I didn't show any sign of a belly bearing a child until nearly halfway through my pregnancy, and mind you, I've got one heck of a lower gut on top of my curvaceous body. So I constantly looked like the letter "B" from a side view... Which turned into the number 3 at one time with the breast area. I know. Disappointing right? But though I wouldn't appreciate how I looked, I realized, there was so much more than my physical appearance going on inside of me! I was fortunate enough to conceive and grow a baby inside of me. With the hormones flowing, I remember breaking down, bawling hysterically that there are SO MANY women out there who CANNOT conceive, and would give anything to feel what my tubby belly felt inside of it! So THAT is when I began to accept my body and when people looked at me in public, confused as to "is she pregnant or just fat!?", I would simply smile and rub my hands over my roundness and no longer CARE. I didn't care if I looked "fat" rather than "pregnant". I didn't care if I was not exactly a "banging 10", but instead, a content and HAPPY 7.5 (give or take)! I didn't care how others felt about ME. I wasn't rampaging to try and be rude, I just found an inner happiness for myself and my little one inside of me. So for any other ladies, young, middle-aged, or "older", you owe it to yourself to RESPECT yourself and your happiness. Pregnancy, no matter the size of the body (or the belly!), is all the SAME MIRACLE in each and every woman! I plan to try and keep updating as much as possible, in hopes to inspire other women all around me as my husband and I try our best to create another little one inside of this chubby belly, dealing with a "difficult to get along with" bio mom of my son's, raising our two kids, and yet also preparing our daughter to being an older sister one day.