I Have Shrunk

I’ve been going through jeans at a prodigious rate this past week, what with all this weather, shoveling, and wood hauling. My laundry hamper is full. After yesterday’s slog in the slush, I added another pair to the hamper. And I was not too enthusiastic about doing a load of laundry last night.

Then my eyes spied a pair of jeans folded up on the laundry table in the basement. They’d been there a while. A long while. I’d outgrown them some time ago, but I saved them ‘cuz you never know. They were my favorites...a pair of Aeropostale jeans. And 100% cotton, too. They predated the spandex-y abominations by a few years.

I brought them upstairs last night and pulled them on to see where things stand these days. Much to my delight...they fit. Perfectly. I’ve noted, too, that my regular every day jeans have been growing somewhat roomy recently.

Maybe there is a silver lining to all of this wood hauling and snow shoveling. It seems to do a body good. I’m positively luxuriating in my soft, one-size-smaller, 100% cotton jeans today. Jeans the way they were meant to be.