Really? They make those?

Today was a good day. It began with sleeping in, all the way until 7:30, which is lovely. Then I had a nice conversation with my professor on the phone, where we discovered that I might know a little more about what I'm doing in this class than I originally thought. Always good. And then Lindsey came! I tried to point her past the clutter in my house, as she hasn't seen it since before the wedding and I wanted it to at least not look like a bachelor pad. I'm not sure that I succeeded, but I digress.

So we went to lunch, sat outside, munched on some chips, enjoyed some good convo. And then we went shopping.

I'll preface this by saying that Lindsey is pregnant with her second child, who I'm hoping turns out to be a girl. She's due in September, and I'm also hoping that she picks my birthday for the baby's arrival date, so that she and I will be exactly 30 years apart, but we'll see. Anyway, on to the story. So we go shopping for a bra for Lindsey, because it seems that your boobs get big when you're expecting. I see one of my students there, I'm secretly hoping that she gives me an employee discount like my other student does at Kmart, but no such luck. So we find a bra, or three or four, and that's that.

We're about to leave when Lindsey spots a maternity clothing store, so we decide to pop in. And then I see it. An entire section of tops, from tanks to tees to sports bras, all devoted to nursing mothers. Now maybe this isn't odd to you. Maybe you have kids, or are aware of the whole fact that nursing tops are specially designed. I, however, was not. Probably I just thought that you either wore a v-neck or a button down, and strategically positioned yourself for maximum lunchtime portability.

These things are nuts! There are these little clippy things attached to the strap, and, as Lindsey demonstrated for me, you just pop them off and wham! Easy access. I mean, I get the whole thing about how you don't want to disrobe completely when you're nursing, but I had no idea that there were such things as this. And they don't just come in bras; there were cute little sleeveless tops, tops with sleeves but with built-in easy access areas, dresses, and the list goes on!

But the best part of all is that in maternity stores, there are these strap on bellies in the dressing room. Like if you're two months pregnant but want to buy clothes for when you're 8 months pregnant, you just strap on this cushion thing and try stuff on! I mean, who thinks of this stuff?! I guess it's smart, but not being on the pregnant bandwagon myself, I just didn't know these things existed. But apparently they do, and I guess pregnant people are glad. So...yay. For the pregnant people. My favorite moment was when Lindsey, who isn't really showing, pulled the strap-on baby around her waist and I noticed it was lumpy. (Not her belly, the strap-on one.) Hopefully real baby bellies aren't that lumpy, because it looked like this thing needed to be re-cushioned. Like my chair.

So now I'm in class, still laughing to myself over the drunk kid who had to be carried out of school and put into a cab this afternoon, and lamenting because I missed it all. But then I remember that while I missed that, I did get to see Lindsey wear a fake baby belly, and that makes it alllll good.