Adoption helps you keep your figure...REALLY???

If one more person says this to me:

"Well, AT LEAST you won't have

 to worry about losing your figure since you're adopting..."

GOOD.  LAWD.  PEOPLE.  Really?  REALLY REALLY???

It's kind of a known fact that if you work hard, and sometimes, some girls don't really even have to work that hard( I have a few of these lucky girls as friends), quite honestly...you CAN get your figure back after a pregnancy.  AM I WRONG???

BUT GUESS WHAT???  A baby just can't be "exercised" into existence.

Well intentioned, even sweet people, have spoken these EXACT words to me.  While I don't blow up at them or cry or even try to correct them...I usually just kinda try to laugh it off.  That would be a fake 'laugh it off' on my part, in attempt to not make them feel bad. 

BUT IN MY MIND...I'm thinking:

-Did they really just say that?

-Do they REALLY think I would trade my figure for a baby?

-REALLY (insert long screeeeaaaaaammmmm here)????

And then, I remember, if you haven't been there, you don't know.  Ignorance.  Not mean-ness.

We all need to open our eyes more.  Be aware.  Be sensitive.

And I'm not just talking about those of us who long for a child of our own.  Gosh, there are so many others going thru hard things, too.

for misty:  Think before you speak. 

There....if you can use that too, good.