Classic Maternity Monday: ‘Bengaline’ Straight Maternity Skirt

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A woman wearing a  \'Bengaline\' Straight Maternity SkirtThis black pencil skirt has been loved for years by working mamas-to-be everywhere. It’s $68 at Nordstrom, available in sizes XS-XL. (Japanese Weekend also sometimes has a pair of maternity pants made from the same material; right now Nordstrom has them stocked in size L only.) Figure 8 Maternity has a few sizes of the skirt marked down to $17; they also have a pair of wide-leg pants made from the same material. Pictured: Japanese Weekend ‘Bengaline’ Straight Maternity Skirt (L-all) Building a maternity wardrobe for work? Check out our page with more suggestions along both classic and trendy/seasonal lines.

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Ugh, I hear you. Pay the $30, though – it will be impossible to get into or out of any parallel street parking because of the snow ‘hump’ that is left once the plows go through. I remember receiving 3 days of parking tickets one winter during law school because I literally could not move my car – snow wall from plows was 20 inches high and solid ice. I tried out my budding lawyer-arguing skills when I challenged the tickets a few months later … failed.

I know it’s a slow day, but here’s my tale of woe – my apartment building is doing maintenance on the garage, and has requested that all cars from my row be removed by 6 am and not back until after 6 pm. We are expecting to get 6-12 inches of snow tonight, which will mean a snow emergency tomorrow (no curb parking for a couple blocks around my building, and beyond that, only on one side of the street). There are ramps in my area, but they are (a) expensive and/or (b) not open overnight, and will be swamped with street parkers who need to move their cars for the snow emergency.

The building manager just called and said there is nothing she can do – no open spots in the garage, no flexibility to put the project on hold for the snow emergency. I think I’ll probably just pay the $30 to park overnight in a ramp nearby. The alternative would be to find someone available at 5:30 in the morning to come sit in my apartment for an hour while I drive around the neighborhood looking for parking in the early morning hours, but I just don’t have it in me today to make those arrangements.