I just bought jeans an hour ago. Super cheap ones from Target. I have some nice jeans and I can wear them but only with a serious muffin-top situation. I needed dark wash jeans I could wear on my business trip in a week, but that I would not need after I lose about 10 more lbs.

The three same cut jeans I have now (in two sizes, just in case) are all Lucky Brand. And they were pretty much revelatory--up until then I'd mostly been wearing boy shaped jeans, and...yeah. I still have a pair of those that I keep around as a cautionary tale in case I start to get sloppy again. I do actually curve in places, and it's best when jeans reflect that.

The style # on the label seems defunct, though. So it's best possible alternative, and I'm mostly going by the things that went wrong with the last pair of jeans I bought. Without consideration.

Other people can wear low rise jeans, so I'm thinking it's the fit on the thighs vs. waist that make the difference in what happens the minute I start to move. Too close in the thighs, not close at all in the waist, and it's remarkably tacky looking.

Somehow there is a Jenny McCarthy movie on my screen. I remember liking the idea of her for five minutes, but good lord did she ruin the party with her actual self.

Maybe she has dyscalculia, like me, JZ. I mean, not to worry, or anything, but if you keep noticing that, um, don't make her wait until she's twenty-two to figure it out. But she could just get it, too. But many highly creative people can haz it.

ita, can you try a lucky store?

Hey Kat, Franny just did another closet culling and we have another bag of lovely dresses. Mostly size 6, but there are some 4s and 5s in there as well. And I have some bags of cute trousers, boy sweaters, and I'm sure some cute dresses in 4-5 from an earlier culling. Are you interested?

My boy now outweighs his sister by almost 10 pounds, and they look the same height, but she's somehow longer than he is, so she's wearing size 8 & 10 while he's still in boys' 6s and 7s. Also when do boys' sizes start going up by 2s?

Boys goes 6, 6x, 7, 8, 10, just like girls. I just bought Casper 12 slim jeans, which are still too big in the waist, but she needs the length. She is the queen of high waters, just like I was. Sigh. (She doesn't care - yet.)

In the last few months Emmett's morphed so that his pants are longer than his waist size. He's gotten so much leaner than he ever was before as he got into shape, that his 32W x 34L jeans are sagging off his ass. He really needs 30W X 34L right now.

And I think he's heading into another growth spurt because (a) his acne is acting up; (2) he's teenboy stinky; and (3) he's eating ALL THE FOOD.

Things I fed Emmett between 8:30 and Noon today: three scrambled eggs and two pieces of buttered toast; thick slice of cherry chocolate bread with butter; hot chocolate with a dollop of ice cream in it; a large smoothie; a quesadilla. Then he got himself a strawberry milkshake when we went out.

I figured Casper must be in 12s by now since Franny is in 10s. Crazy. And yeah, skinny kids seems happy to wear high waters. I think they are happy that the waist finally fits.

Be careful, David. Pretty soon, Emmett isn't going to fit in your apartment any more.

Ellie totally skipped size 6/6X. I suppose she went through it over the summer but she's now a 7 whose pants always have to be checked to make sure they don't fall off.

I will happily reimburse anyone who wants to do a TJs run for me!