Times have a changed...

Well, I have worked so hard to try to keep looking younger than ...well...35..which hits next month (OMG!!!) . I have even gone to some extremes...some of you know my surgery a la carte menu...anyway...today I took my daughter swim suit shopping and some very interesting things took place. She clarified to me that my rules for her swim suits and my rules for my swim suits are quite opposite and she "thinks that it is crazy" in her very simple words. I absolutely do not want my 10 year old to wear one of these bikinis with triangle tops that seems to be all there is available. Yet, I am trying to pour my rather deflated female parts into a trangle top in the hopes that my body will still look like it did pre-children. I know this is where the double standard phrase smacks me full force in the face and says quite loudly "DUH"!!!! So, my daughter picks out a strapless and quite cute one piece for me and tells me how great it is and...it...is purple...my favorite color. I reluctantly try it on after struggling with the fact that I really really don't want to be in a one piece because we all have some preconceived idea that it makes us old and unattractive when we cross that threshhold. Well, believe it or not...it is really cute and makes my figure look adorable...Me..a35 year old...adorable...well, I will just consider my goal of looking younger acheived and accomplished....in a one piece!