How I wore it: housekeeping

Oh, hai.

I really didn't mean to disappear for nine days. I even had a food post planned, remember? I still have those pictures! I want you all to feel sorry for me with respect to the enormous quantities of food I consumed in just one day!

But instead, I'm gonna tell you what I've been up to. In the six days that my husband and I have been back in the States, we have: gone grocery shopping, gone grocery shopping again, snuggled our cat to oblivion, played with our cat, gone to the doctor's office, gone to an ultrasound, gotten a haircut (me), chosen and bought a car (what?!), and gone to a second ultrasound. And that's not even everything. The sad thing is that many of these events involved cute outfits. The even sadder thing is that I was so jet-lagged once 10 o'clock hit that I just changed into PJs and fell into bed.

Anyway, today I got a second ultrasound of my baby because when we went for the official "whoh-oah, you're [almost] halfway there" ultrasound, instead of finding out our baby's sex, we found out that (s)he is a lazy bum because it didn't want to move out of a corner of my uterus where it was tightly curled up, making it impossible to see if it had a spine, let alone anything else. Today, though, she (the technician was "pretty positive") was agreeably stretched out and we're relieved to know that everything is all right with the world.

Anyway. For that appointment, I decided to dress somewhat fancy. Because I was hoping this skirt would still fit and it did:

Of course, I forgot until after I took the picture that I'd unzipped the skirt upon arriving home...

As you can tell, when I went to get my hair cut yesterday, I decided to opt for keeping it short and manageable rather than start the arduous process of growing it out again. On the one hand, it doesn't seem feasible, both practically and financially, to go get my hair trimmed every month or so, especially as I get less mobile and especially once the baby comes. On the other hand, I like it short. And little hands can't grab at it too easily...

For lounging around at home, I decided to get comfy. While in Greece, the one thing I wanted to buy were brightly patterned, so-called 'harem pants' that I saw some tourists/natives wearing in Athens. My husband was vehemently against it, but on our last full day in Athens, I played the tourist and ducked into a shop in the flea market of Monastiraki. I liked that the patterns I saw on those particular pants were bright and colorful - perfect for a day at home, I thought. However, my husband was so impatient that I got rattled and left (DAMMIT). And then realized that I had the perfect solution at home. Which I had actually bought in India.

Meet my new favorite combination:

SOMEONE needs to get used to posing for the camera again!

... It's a maternity tank with salwar trousers! The beautiful thing about the salwar is that you can pretty much fit three people in there. The waistband goes on for days. So I just cinched it up beneath my belly, added a long tank, and lounged around on the couch and in bed (and in front of the TV, waiting for HURRICANEIRENEPOCALYPSE) for the rest of the day. Practical for the workday or outside errands? No. Comfy as hell and perfect for lying around at home? YES. 

Day outfit:

Black tank: Old Navy maternity

Skirt: Gap, remixed

Turquoise sandals: Nine West Athens, remixed

Home outfit:

Black tank: same

Olive salwar: Fab India, remixed

Flip-flops: Urban Outfitters, remixed