Well, I finally did it. I finally had to purchase the bathing suit with a “skirt.” You know, the kind. The kind that overweight old ladies wear!!! Well, apparently, I’ve just become one of them. I decided to spare you by not including a picture with this blog post, but suffice it to say…it ain’t purty.

You might be wondering…”If you didn’t want to purchase a bathing suit with a skirt, why did you?” Well, let me start by saying that the mirror had something to do with my decision. It truly was the most “flattering” of all the suits I tried on, but really, it was the least “fattering.” The clincher in my decision though was the expression on my son’s faces when I tried the other suits on. I allowed them in the dressing room (after I was dressed of course) to give me their input and when I tried on the non-skirt suits they literally shielded their eyes, scrunched up their faces, and said…”Mom, women like you should definitely NOT wear that kind of bathing suit.” Point taken. Skirt suit purchased. Youthful athletic build…HISTORY! Sigh!