Personal blog of christian
writer & fallible mom
Katy McKenna Raymond
in Kansas City, Missouri
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- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
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What Jeans May Come
I’m stuck between a shock and a hard case.
It’s hard when you’re losing weight and you gave away a lot of your smallest clothes from the last time you lost weight before you started regaining and you’re the size in between the pair of jeans you used to wear when you weighed 25 pounds more than you do now and the ones you kept for nostalgia’s sake that are still a tad too small.
The shock comes in when you raise both arms in a public venue, in this case Panera’s, and your jeans very nearly fall to the floor in front of God and everybody.
It reminds me of when my mother-in-law started dropping weight like nobody’s business. She must not have realized how drastically her body had changed shape, because she did not seem to think she needed to buy smaller clothing. The phrase “dropping from a size 20 to a size 10,” though, has the word “dropping” in it for a reason.
One Sunday, she exuberantly raised her hands during the singing at her church and her pants slid all the way to the floor.
“What did you DO?” I asked, thinking that at her advanced age, she must have been SO embarassed.
“I just pulled them up and praised the Lord!”
Go therefore and do likewise.
I can relate…my jeans were doing the same thing, Katy! I just bought two pairs yesterday. Buck it up, my dear sis, and spend some bucks on yourself to get some new ones! :)
Posted by Bridget on 10/16/06 at 11:24 AM
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