Oh Bathing Suit Season, How I Loathe Thee

I decided to try on all of my bathing suits today.  I probably should have had a couple of drinks first.  I have 4 bathing suits; 2 pre pregnancy, 2 post pregnancy...oh and a 5th that is just pregnancy...I will NOT be wearing that one again.

I had a large, and rather bright pink, tankini top with the swim skirt that I bought after my first pregnancy (look, it was on clearance).  I wore it again after the second.  Last summer, after I started running, big pink was getting a little loose.  So I got a great deal on another Target tankini in a smaller size and better color.  I really liked the second bathing suit and figured I'd get to wear it again this year...it was a little tight last year.  I tried on big pink first, knowing it would be a little too big and it's actually ridiculous.  [Can you donate bathing suits or should I just save it for when I get fat again?]  I was pretty happy about that.  I tried on the black tankini.  Well, it was also too big, not ridiculous, but not anything that would hold up against a medium sized wave.  At this point, I was feeling pretty darn good and brought out the pre pregnancy suits.  Yeah, I should have stopped while I was ahead.

I went straight for the string bikini.  [This would be where you hear my sad and hysterical laughter]  First off, it's important to know that string bikini bottoms do not hide stretch marks...at least not stretch marks that go up to your chin.  Also important, string bikini tops do not offer the support a woman that nursed 2 babies needs.  Wish these facts had been clear to me prior to trying to cover and hold myself in place.  *sigh*  Oh well, at somewhere over age 35, I shouldn't really be wearing string bikinis anyway.  Bathing suit #2 was also not appropriate.  Though the bottoms are shorts, the top is the dreaded and unsupportive triangle top. 

So unless I go shopping, I am left with 4 ill fitting bathing suits.  I can wear the triangle tops and have side boob and stretch marks.  Or I can wear the too big suits, and probably end up with a lot more than side boob after the first wave.  But, I guess since I vacation at the Jersey shore, either would be appropriate.