{"id":4383,"date":"2013-02-13T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=4383"},"modified":"2013-02-12T19:02:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T01:02:45","slug":"dress-that-mama-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=4383","title":{"rendered":"Dress That Mama: Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC_0003\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8111\/8467153025_f32bcfe99c_b.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a stay-at-home mama, some days all I want to do is stay in my pajamas all day. <em>Especially\u00a0<\/em>in the winter.\u00a0I have done this before, with mediocre results. I was extremely comfortable, yes, but dressing like a slacker made me\u00a0<em>feel\u00a0<\/em>like a slacker, and basically the whole day was a bust. Which is fine, if you are sick or recovering from childbirth or surgery, (or, oh, trapped indoors from 3 feet of snow blocking your exit!), but not fine if it is just another day of the week and you have tons of stuff to do. As\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apartmenttherapy.com\/make-your-bed-it-just-might-make-you-productive-profitable-and-peaceful-173046\" target=\"_blank\">making your bed<\/a> every morning leads to overall better productivity<\/em>, I feel that getting dressed every morning has a similar effect on me (but if you abhor making your bed, you can use <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/4181629.stm\" target=\"_blank\">this excuse!<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Something happens to me quite often around here: other moms who I often bump into while I am out and about approach me and ask, &#8220;What, do you wake up every morning and <em>get dressed<\/em>?&#8221; To which I reply, &#8220;&#8230; Yes?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0????<\/p>\n<p>But today, I feel like I am wearing my pajamas (a good thing) without the mama-couldn&#8217;t-be-bothered-to-put-on-actual-clothing look. It has something to do with this super-soft maxi dress, fleece-lined thigh-highs, a warm sweater, and soft, comfy moccasins. Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day (tomorrow)- I&#8217;ll be frosting 100 cookies!<\/p>\n<p><em>Heart sweater: JCrew (a year ago)- but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jcrew.com\/AST\/Navigation\/Sale\/AllProducts\/PRDOVR~32862\/99102886852\/ENE~1+2+3+22+4294967294+20~~~20+17+4294966948~90~~~~~~~\/32862.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a> is cute, too! Or <a href=\"http:\/\/oldnavy.gap.com\/browse\/product.do?cid=60790&amp;vid=1&amp;pid=385791032\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Black maxi dress: Anthropologie (also from a while back, but find similar one <a href=\"http:\/\/oldnavy.gap.com\/browse\/product.do?cid=91339&amp;vid=1&amp;pid=387558022\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Black thigh-high socks: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopbop.com\/fleece-lined-thigh-highs-plush\/vp\/v=1\/845524441859429.htm?folderID=2534374302072037&amp;fm=other-shopbysize-viewall&amp;colorId=12867\" target=\"_blank\">Plush<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Moccasins: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B008P3KIBA\/ref=asc_df_B008P3KIBA2380812?tag=thefind0195785-20&amp;creative=395261&amp;creativeASIN=B008P3KIBA&amp;linkCode=asn\" target=\"_blank\">Bamboo<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC_0007\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8090\/8468248582_a219e1327a_b.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So tell me, stay-at-home (or work-from-home) mamas, do you (a) actually change out of your pajamas\/workout clothes in the morning and (b) make your bed (I only do this about half the time) every morning? If not, do you feel it affects your overall productivity during the day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a stay-at-home mama, some days all I want to do is stay in my pajamas all day. Especially\u00a0in the winter.\u00a0I have done this before, with mediocre results. I was extremely comfortable, yes, but dressing like a slacker made me\u00a0feel\u00a0like a slacker, and basically the whole day was a bust. Which is fine, if you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=4383\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dress That Mama: Hearts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[76,95,48],"class_list":["post-4383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-style","tag-costuming","tag-lauren","tag-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4395,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions\/4395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}