Good Advice, Good Deals, and Saturday Morning Yoga

I didn't expect such a response from yesterday's post!! I'm so thankful for people who love us and read this blog and for such great friends who responded with good advice. I know that the best advice that I've gotten is that I will be the mommy and whatever I feel is best for our family IS best but I still love getting advice from moms who have been there.  Good news is: all of the mommies that I listen to and love and trust will give me advice knowing that I may or may not make decisions differently than they did... and that's ok :)  So thanks to all the moms who care enough to share their experiences and advice!

After some disappointing online shopping yesterday I decided to go to Goodwill.  But first I met my handsome husband for lunch at Golden Corral. Yes, I did say Golden Corral. I've been forcing my asian cravings on him for multiple meals so I decided he deserved to pick where we went for lunch and it wasn't too bad. I basically just had a big veggie plate and a couple of their delicious yeast rolls. It's hard not to overdo it in there!

Anyways - on to Goodwill. I probably tried on close to 40 different things in there. I just kept going back and digging some more. I didn't have anything else to do on my snow day and if you know me - I love a good dig for a good deal. And it paid off!! I found some things that will work as maternity clothes! Sadly - their maternity section was pretty lame and I didn't find anything there but I looked through some of their medium and large clothes and found some cute shirts that will give some tummy room this spring/summer. It is really helpful that the current styles include baggy and flowy stuff.  8 shirts for $30 is a good deal!!!  I also borrowed a few things from my friend Joy that will definitely come in handy :)

Here's a pic of my new "maternity shirts" (ignore the wrinkles)

So, in the middle of posting this I decided that I didn't really want to put on my whole workout outfit and go to mom's to get on the elliptical and instead I decided to look up some youtube prenatal yoga videos!! Much to my surprise - I ended up doing 2 of them for a total of an hour and it was awesome!! I loved how they explained exactly how they were benefiting me and the baby and it really felt good to stretch and challenge myself.  I think they are really good to prepare for birth and I might as well get started now!
The two I watched are here and here. I liked the second one better because you could actually watch her move through the poses rather than just seeing pictures of the poses but I watched the first one first since it had so many views and it was still pretty great. :)
I'm hoping I will continue to do these a couple times a week. It's so nice to have our wii hooked up to our tv so I could just move the coffee table and get started :)