I broke down and bought....a suit.

A Brazilian bathing suit to be exact. I have a friend I met here. Her son goes to Ohio State, so you know they are intelligent people. He is quoted as saying "in the US you need to open the suit to see the cheeks. In Brazil, you need to open the cheeks to see the suit." And this is very true. Old women, young, large, small, doesn't matter. The suit is drink coaster size. Mine, however, is actually tastefully covering for a Brazilian bikini. Which means it actually covers half of my butt. Not sure yet if I will be comfortable wearing it or not, but I bought it anyway.

It is a real stretch for me if you think about it. I mean I have been wearing the Midwest Mommy suit for, how old is my first born? About eleven years. For those of you who do not know what a Midwest Mommy suit is it consists of a tankini top with a miniskirt bottom. These are great if you forget to shave before you head to the lake by the way. And in essence my bottom is white as a baby's butt since it has not seen the sun in those eleven years. So part of the reason I don't think I will be comfortable wearing it is that if I get a sun burn I will not be able to sit down for two weeks. We are heading into the summer season though, and I will be laughed off the beach if I even try to wear my usual. Hopefully my children won't laugh at my new bathing suit though. I could just hear them laughing and saying, "I can see mom's butt!" I have a feeling it would be worse than people staring at me being too covered.