Skinny on backorder

I have this plan that if I start to exercise *now*, I'll be that much more ahead (and that much smaller) when we do get pregnant. I mean, once that bump starts forming there's no going back, you know? It's the expansion of all that I hold dear...and if I can fortify the walls I'll feel better going into it.

Last night over dinner, after a quick trip to the restroom told me that we are definitely not pregnant just yet, my dad was explaining with great animation just how 'destroyed' a woman's body becomes after childbirth and all I could do was smirk and say 'Thanks Dad!'

Men.
Really...
Thank goodness my husband has inifinite amounts of sensitivity.
But I understand where my dad is coming from; as a man he's naturally predisposed to notice a handful of things about any woman at first glance and *all* of these are, of course, physical attributes that nature has designed by law to sag, bulge, quiver, and roll once a child has been birthed.

It's a process of natural selection, or de-selection in this case. Once a woman has conceived and given birth she is no longer meant to be physically attractive to the general male population as the assumption would now be that she 'belongs' to one male in particular already. I realize this is sounding very caveman, and that's intentional. When you look at the things that happen to a woman's body during pregnancy and after giving birth it's unavoidably obvious; we're being taken out of circulation by Mother Nature herself.

This is fine with me from one angle: I don't really want to be 'in circulation' in the first place. I've got the caveman of my choosing and can't imagine any other possible future. *But* one thing I'm so not cool with is the idea that just because I'm out of circulation I've got to look the part.

So, aside from the Haro mountain bikes - which are actually not available until December it turns out - I've ordered two prenatal yoga DVDs, a Swiss exercise ball, and an extra thick yoga mat.