Maxi for a day..

 

Remember when I said I needed a tripod?  Well I still do.  J graciously took pictures for me tonight but I'm the first to admit that they need serious work.  Regardless, I promised my friend Caitlin, who has a fabulous blog that I am forever impressed with, that I would wear my maxi skirt today and post pictures as proof.   So, however less than excellent these pictures are, I give you my Fisherman's maxi.  Most comfortable outfit ever. 

B couldn't help but jump in as much as possible, in fact, he attacked me at one point!

 

Skirt: Zara,  Sweater: Goodwill,  Boots: Steve Madden,  Bracelet:  Jewelmint

Do you ever look at new fads and swear that they arn't for you?  That's how I used to feel about maxis.  And then bam, this year I LOVE them. Even though most of the time they're the wrong shape, length, fabric, everything than what actually works with my body type.  I just stopped caring. Much like I've grown to love the mess that my hair is after showering at night and sleeping with a puppy on my head to dry it.   Sometimes that bohemian, carefree whatever is just as glorious as it sounds.  Coincidentally, leggings have rapidly followed suit.  I do not have model legs, in fact, they more resemble elephant trunks, if muscular ones.  But leggings are my new favorite work outfit, weekend outfit, sleeping outfit.  I blame my friend Hanna from Ireland.  She started it all years before anyone else did.  Long story short, this is my year of accepting my body and pushing past what I think I "should or should not wear" and learning to just go with it.  I haven't yet figured out how that works into my husband's idea of proper "lawyerly wife-ware" but I'm working on it.  And damn if I'll not be comfortable while I do so.  

I'd like to end with a shoutout to Brutus, my friend's plant that's survived since sophomore year of college and almost a full year in my care - Thank you for not dying on me!