We finally found me some maternity pants at the thrift store today (I'm really resistant to buying full price maternity pants in order to wear them for another 2 months, but I may buy a pair). Well, really they're capris, I hate capris (on me, at least) but they were the only maternity pants in my size so I'm just greatful we found something since I desperately need maternity pants and they were $5. We've asked Patrick's mom if she can help me turn them into long shorts instead (because she has a sewing machine and does costuming and I grew up hand sewing stuff for fun, but not for it to look good or actually be worn. I honestly have no idea how to hem, hand sewn or otherwise. I know she can hem no problem and that she'll of course be teaching me when I take the pants to her).

I'm hoping I'll end up with something like this.

I'll accept something like this, though.

I totally got those pics from a Google search so I could show my MIL what I'm hoping to make the capris into, by the way. I think they're originally from Overstock.com.

I also think I'm going to try to get some dye and make them darker, I like dark washes and these pants look like a faded-out medium wash. So sometime in the next coming days I might post pics of our DIY fixing these capris into something I don't totally hate.

My doctor made it seem like I'd gained a lot of weight fast (I'd gained none then almost 10lbs when overall she said I sould gain 10-15lbs) , but waist-wise I've only gained about 2 inches and I don't feel like I've gained much other than baby belly. I still fit into the clothes I wore pre-pregnancy and the maternity size I'm supposed to wear from pre-pregnancy fall off of me just a bit (I have such an odd shape, I've always had a bigger waist and smaller (shapely but muscular) legs) and because I've barely gained weight in my waist I almost wonder if I couldn't have gotten away with a size down because I feel like I only look 5-6 months pregnant (at most), not 8, so the elastic is almost loose. But since these were the only plus-size maternity they had at the thrift store it doesn't really matter.