All hail stretchy fabrics! This is one of the few dresses I kept in my closet to move up to Anchorage because I knew it'd be able to grow with my growing belly (sidenote: is there any other word besides "belly" and "bump"? Belly makes me think of jelly... jelly bellies? Eh. I guess bump is less visceral at least). This is one of my favorite dresses in my closet but it's just a smidge too fancy for everyday wear, at least for me, so it rarely gets to make an appearance. Solution: I just need more fun events to attend. Now to figure out how to procure invites to events in which this dress would be appropriate garb...
The blogosphere feels so different from even a couple years ago, or perhaps I've just fallen out of the scene. I remember going to so many blogger events and meet ups, does that still happen or am I just one of those people musing on about "the good ol' days?" Perhaps in my sabbatical from blogging I just lost touch with any local bloggers or blogger groups. As an introvert I find it's definitely easy to sink away from events and groups and just live in my own "fishbowl." But I see the ocean out there and I ache to be a part of it. Now I just have to Finding Nemo myself out there...
Dress : c/o Modcloth | Shoes : c/o Moorea Seal | Necklace : c/o Jewelmint
![This print feels even more relevant today. We all joke about the dumpster fire of [insert year here], but the important message of this image to me is that *we persist* through the horrors. We stand, we fight— maybe for ourselves, maybe for oth](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574dddd6d51cd4bc35c1609a/1730935170369-03GPKQ5NF73VAE65RHO6/image-asset.jpeg)
