Me - looking pregnant still...

What do you think my reaction should be when people ask me if I'm pregnant?

You know that awkward moment when someone opens their mouth and inserts their foot?

This happens to me a few times every week.

I know that I look big in the tummy. I know that I can't wear clothes that bind under the breasts - it makes me look 6 months pregnant. I know that my tummy doesnt' match the rest of me.

However...

I know that I'm 20 pounds heavier than I was 10 years ago. Hello, I've had 4 kids in 8 years and all were delivered by c-section!!!
When I do a sit up, my stomach cones upward in the middle. That is a sign that the muscles are so stretched out, they are beyond repair with sit ups. If I want to look thin in the middle - I'll need a tummy tuck... just isn't happening anytime soon, right?

So, I must forge through the next few years with my head high and not react with anger when someone asks me how far along I am.

Last week, at work, I was assisting a patient moving from the stretcher to a bed. I was on the side that pulls the patient over. So another nurse, who doesn't know me, tells me to move out of the way, because I didn't need to be pulling patients when I'm about to pop one out!!!!!

OMG!!! I was like, 'that is not a new baby bump. That is an old baby bump.'

I think I can only use the 'I just had one' for another month or so, then I'll have to come up with something else. People don't react the same when you tell them that you just had a baby, so your tummy is still large and then tell them that the baby is 18 months!!

Yesterday, Bryan and I went to go have our taxes done. The same lady does them every year and last year we were about 7 months pregnant with Paige when we went in.

So, we show up and this lady gives me a hug and bends down and places her hands on my tummy and actually starts to talk to it!!!! I was like - what are you doing?

She was mortified, to say the least. I just didn't know what the most appropriate reaction should be.

I give up though, I have too much on my plate, for the next 3 years, to start a new work out routine, in the hopes that my stomach will shrink, when I've been told by several plastic surgeons at work that it won't without surgical intervention.

I guess I'm just sensitive, today.