Giveaway: $129 Petunia Pickle Bottom Weekender Bag (Diapers Optional)
When Mazzy was born, a friend's gift to me was a plain cotton shirt with easy boob access and a pair of drawstring pants. These awesome items of clothing could be worn during the day and then *magically* repurposed as pajamas at night. This meant that throughout my maternity leave, I almost never had to take them off. Which was really convenient considering I wasn't showering anyway.
In my experience, unless you are Angelina Jolie or Melania Trump, the first few months after you have a baby, you look like a big hot mess. Your hair goes unwashed, your shirt smells like sour milk and every pair of pants you wear involve elastic.
At some point though, you rejoin society. You go back to work or you take the baby to the playground or maybe you make a failed attempt to befriend someone at a Mommy & Me class. You then have to make a decision— are you going to take your style cues from Rachel Zoe ("I die for fashion") or George Costanza ("I give up")?
For me, clothing options have been much more limited post-baby. Heels seem ridiculous during the day, dresses make playing on the floor impossible, and any material besides cotton has to be sent to the dry cleaner if Mazzy so much as wipes her nose on my shoulder. If there was ever anything "fun" or "flirty" in my closet, they seem to have taken a backseat to pieces that scream "practical" or "I bet if it's black and solid nobody will notice if I wear it three days in a row."
Needless to say, it's been a slow transition back to the somewhat stylish person I used to be.
But I am ready to step it up.
The easiest thing to do would be to ditch my dad-friendly messenger-style diaper bag and get a bag that makes more of a fashion statement. Something like the adorbable Wistful Weekender from Petunia Pickle Bottom (pictured below). It says— "I provide the perfect distraction from the puke stain on your pants!"
The Petunia Pickle Bottom Weekender has two exterior pockets, four interior bottle pockets, seven organizational pockets and a key clip. (How's that for keeping your hot mess in check?) Plus, with a choice of five fabulous patterns (pictured below), your "practical" outfit will instantly seem 1000X cuter.
Thanks to Sarah from NewDayNewDeals, today I am giving away a Petunia Pickle Bottom Weekender Bag (value $129) for free. (The winner will be able to select the pattern of her choice, as long as the pattern is instock at the conclusion of the contest.)
NewDayNewDeal posts a daily listing of the best baby sales online. It's not a cheap freebie site— Sarah scours the web for bargain prices on boutique brands and only showcases the higher-end items she would buy herself. Plus she posts listings of all the private sales from sites like Gilt Kids, Zullily and Hautelook the night before they happen… SO, if you're like me and receive 50 emails a day from private sale sites, you can click "unsubscribe" and check them all in one place. (Freeing, isn't it?)
GIVEAWAY RULES:
1) You must be a Mommy Shorts Facebook Fan to enter. If you are not already a fan, you can easily become one by clicking "like" on my right sidebar or clicking here.
2) Tell me your "hot mess" moment in the comment section below. Example: Mine is the time I walked out of the office "lactation room" after a pumping session with my dress tucked into my tights like I was wearing a shirt and pants. (That really happened.)
3) For a second entry, follow NewDayNewDeals on facebook or @NewDayNewDeals on twitter and then leave a second comment below.
Winner will be chosen at random and announced on July 22nd. Good luck!
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My hot mess moment was when I was pregnant with #2 and was alone with my oldest (who was 18 months) at the airport. They told me my bag was over the weight limit and I just burst into tears.
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anywho…my hot mess moment? any one of the times i’ve had to do the “walk of shame” from a dude’s dorm room at 9am in my party clothes from the night before.
::hangs head in shame::
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Just home from the hospital with our (first) newborn, I was crying because he wouldn’t eat because he was constipated and jaundiced because the stupid nurses wouldn’t listen to me say “he isn’t pooping” for the 48 hours we were at the hospital. My mom did her Grammie magic and sure enough within an hour he had a diaper full of 3 days worth of newborn tar poop. I went to change him (first diaper change at home) and he commenced to pee all over me, the wall, himself, and the changing table. I was in tears again, this time from laughter, as I tried to stop the stream while also balancing a diaper FULL of tar poop and trying to yell for reinforcements!
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I’m a fb fan 🙂 I’m sure I’ve had a worse moment than this, but the one I can remember since it was recent was going to a friend’s barbecue. After about an hour, I realized I forgot to shave one of my legs…it wasn’t noticeable unless you touched my leg…but I felt like an idiot!
I’m a fb fan 🙂 I’m sure there’s a worst story than this but this is the one I can remember because it happened recently. I went to a friend’s barbecue and after an hour or so, I realized I had forgotten to shave one of my legs. It wasn’t noticeable unless you touched my legs, but I felt like an idiot!
Liked you on FB – My hot mess moment happened in my early twenties. I went out to a dance club with my boyfriend and had a tad too much to drink. On the walk back to our car (through downtown Baltimore) I had one of my “girls” hanging out and didn’t even know it! Not something I’m proud of 😛
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I like you on FB (Elita K). My hot mess moment also has to do with pumping. I wore a dress the first day back at work and when I sat down to pump realized I was going to have to get naked to accomplish it. Never wore a dress to work again.
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hot mess when I’ve been out on a hot humid day either shopping or running errand and im so sweaty and dishoveled, not a pretty site
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My hot mess was when I was just back to work from maternity leave and was wearing a breastfeeding bra so I could pump easily. Well it had a velcro closure and it had come undone and fallen so everyone could see my nipple thru my white dress shirt. I had no idea it had come lose. I was so embarrassed!!!
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My best memory of a “hot mess” moment was actually all the way back in high school. I was wearing a long skirt and walking down the steps in the school “commons” area. I bit it HARD on one of the steps and I swear the ENTIRE school saw me. I got up with some dignity only to slip AGAIN! I threw the skirt out when I got home.
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And my hot mess is not related to motherhood yet, but, once when I was camping it rained…all week. Everything turned to mud and, of course, my tent leaked. Not only did I have wet, muddy clothes, but some of the colors of some of the skirts leaked so they stained other clothes. That was a hot mess.
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my hot mess moment was my daughters diaper exploding on me while grocery shopping.
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My hot mess moment just happened this week. People kept smiling at me all morning at work and I couldn’t figure out why. When I went home for lunch, I looked in the mirror and discovered that I only put makeup on one eye.
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No, I dont have any Hot Mess moments that i can remember
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My hot mess moment was when I took my daughter to the park last year. I put her on the monkey bars & I was standing on the side, she started to fall, so I leaned over to grab her & fell face down on the ground. My face was all scratched up & bleeding. I’m extremely clumsy. dramaqueensmum@gmail.com
I am pregnant with my fourth son and we were at a wedding and i was wearing a custom beautiful dress and Casey’s diaper leaked and i had to wear a pee stained dress allday. We lived to far to go home and change and there were no stores near by. melaniecalcut@gmail.com
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My most embarrassing moment was rushing out in the morning to work and forgetting to put in my nursing pads. I saw my male co workers face change and felt the letdown and saw the wet spots appearing on my shirt. Thank goodness I had a extra shirt in the car!
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Mine horrid moment happened a few months ago. I just started a great new job and went to the restroom…. came out with the toilet seat cover coming out of my pants!
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My Most recent Hot mess moment was at the beach. I had taken my daughter and myself to the restroom. It smelled so bad in there…I was trying to hurry us both up as fast as I could to leave. I left and walked all the way back to the beach with toilet paper hanging out of the back of my suit. My hubby of course thought it was hilarious.
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I like you FB…. Dana J Valle ….My Most recent Hot mess moment was at the beach. I had taken my daughter and myself to the restroom. It smelled so bad in there…I was trying to hurry us both up as fast as I could to leave. I left and walked all the way back to the beach with toilet paper hanging out of the back of my suit. My hubby of course thought it was hilarious.
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2. My hot mess story happened one day when I was running late for work at the office. I threw on this long sleeved top and thought I looked pretty good (went the whole day feeling this way). Then I get home to change out of my work clothes and see what I thought was a stain on my shirt, only to find out it wasn’t a stain it was my skin!! I had a big hole in my shirt and didn’t even notice it!! I was very embarrassed.
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Tracy P
My “hot mess” moment was shortly after my son was born. I went to the grocery store and realized after I was already there that I had no bra or socks on.
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My Hot Mess is when I had taken a shower after my boys were a couple weeks old and left the house with no bra on. I am not a small girl so it was fairly obvious when I was out.
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Mine was the day I walked out of the bathroom after a week on my new job with my skirt tucked into my undies…
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my hot mess moment was when i fell down at a party, i was yelling at a friend saying hey and everyone was looking and i fell down, it was so embarrassing.
my hotmess moment would be when i was in the grocery store and my son wiped his candy bar across my back..my daughter tried to wipe it off with a napkin and made it worse.i felt like such a grub..
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One time hubby took me out to eat. I had a few drinks and went to use the restroom. When I came out I had to walk past people lining the hallway waiting to be seated. I noticed a lot of them were looking at me and snickering. Once I got to the end of the hall (yep, they let me walk around like this for 50 feet!!) one woman stopped me and pointed to my shoes. Behind me were 3 foot long trails – yes, plural- of toilet paper!!
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Hot mess moment: The many times I realized I had spit-up on my shoulder from burping or just carrying the baby. “What’s that on your shoulder?” was a more common than I want to admit question in my life.
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I guess that I became used to my boobs being exposed during breastfeeding (I always used another room, or cover-up), because one visit to the beach had me walking back from the ocean to my towel with my boob exposed on a very crowded beach!
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I guess my hot mess moment would be spilling half of my recently pumped milk all over the floor in the back room at work. It was totally my own clumsiness. The big problem is that I’m a high volume producer so it was everywhere. Only one person was witness to the mess but I think she was really appalled by the amount of spillage.
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I had a hot mess moment today. My newborn spit up on me, my 2 year old pooed on the floor (we are potty training) and the door bell rang for pizza delivery all in a matter of a few seconds. Awesome.
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My hot mess moment was when I left the house with my shirt inside out. I didn’t notice until I was standing in line at the gas station.
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My hot mess moments always happen when I’m in a hurry and don’t notice I have something in my hair or deodorent left on my shirt, they happen more than I’d like!
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As of today I am one week overdue with my first baby so this is all very new to me… In my second tri I had put oil on my belly, got dressed and went about my day. Later on that evening I got undressed and ready for bed. I sat on the toilet and as I looked down at my growing belly I saw little black hairs all over my belly! I was in shock! I called my husband at the firehouse and told him that my hormones had changed and I grew a ton of black hairs all over my belly! How could this possibly have happened without me noticing sooner?
I started picking and plucking at the hairs and quickly realized it was just the fibers from my black shirt I had worn that day… Not one of the brightest moments I can say I have had but for sure I felt like a HOT MESS there for a minute!!!
Julia I have done the same thing multiple times. My husband said at this point its just funny when it happens. At least once a week I forget to attach the bag before I start pumping and pump directly onto either my pants or down my skirt. But the first time was when we had a client come into our office. I pumped all over my shirt and walked out to find a male client waiting for me at my desk!