can you still wear a bikini? after having children a lot of woman go to mom suits. i could rock a bikini again if i ate a little better. i have little will power. i checked out boca wich gave some great advice to better living

when i was a teen, before i became a mother. i wore bikinis, thats all i would wear. i had a flat stomach and a bikini fit.ah those were the good ol days! i was at the pool everyday in my cute bikini. living in phx thats the only option you really have!

 now that i have had children and put on some weight. i dread hearing bikini. i have a belly and stretch marks. those two things and bikini do not mix.i went bathing suit shopping the other day. tried on one piece and the new tankinis. a one piece was okay. it made me feel a bit awkward and my pouchy stomach still hung out. i tried on a tankini and loved it. lose enough so you can’t see my belly hanging over and no signs of my stretch marks. plus it made me feel like i was still in a bikini. i would love to invest in a tankini, still a bikini but enough bot to show my emabarassed tummy. they are too exspensive for me though. so for now i wear shorts and tshirt. though i have not been swimming in like two years. my kids have a kiddy pool in the backyard. i get in there with them.

out here and in a lot of public pools you can’t wear street clothes, so until i can find the right suit i am steering clear of the pool area. 

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are you americas worst cook, if you said yes then you should head over there and enter. the parent bloggers network is having a blog blast and they want you to tell about your cooking mishaps. what better way to embarass myself, as the burn queen! ha

when i was in my teens. my parents where never around to make dinner, so i had to learn on my own. i can make a good macaroni and cheese, or a hot dog.  as i got older and started my family, i relized that would n’t cut it i was going to have to feed children. as much as they may want too, they can’t eat macaroni and cheese all day long. so i started looking in cook books, getting recipes.

everything turned out horrible. i fried chicken to the point where it was hard as a rock. thats when i called in for pizza. i didn’t know you were suppost to put flour on it. i just threw it in the deep fryer for 20 minutes. thats what i do with chicken wings so i thought it would work. not so much!

i’ve tried to prepare a thanksgiving dinner for my family. we ended up going out, because the turkey was burnt and the stuffing was to mushy.

for some reason besides having bad days with cooking, i am most famous for burning my self while cooking. everytime i open the oven i end up burning my arm. it’s just because i’m trying to get my kids away from the oven and don’y pay attention. there was even one instance. i was warming up spagetti sauce and turned it on a little to high. well while i was stirring it it popped out on my hand, now i have a burn on my knuckle, and another in the middle of my finger.  besides my self i burn cookies and cakes. i can not bake for anything.

so when disaster strikes i order out. it’s exspensive but i’d rather not make my family sick when they try to eat one of my disasterous recipes.

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