My feet ached, my back hurt, and all I wanted was to take a shower, change into something comfortable, and eat the strawberries I’d bought on my way home.
Instead, I walked into our bedroom and discovered that most of my maternity wardrobe had disappeared.
At first, I assumed Nick had moved the clothes while cleaning.
I checked the laundry basket.
Then the dresser.
Then the guest room.
Nothing.
My maternity leggings were missing. So were my comfortable dresses, nursing pajamas, cardigans, and the special maternity scrubs I wore to work.
Even the beautiful sage-green dress I’d purchased for my pregnancy photographs was gone.
Five months of careful shopping had vanished.
I’d spent $1,380 building that wardrobe, purchasing things gradually whenever I could afford them.
That might not seem like an enormous fortune to some people, but I was preparing for unpaid maternity leave and a new baby.
