made my day.

well considering we are approaching all-out summer (we've been wearing shorts and short sleeves here) i figured i should get a swim suit. you see, like most other people i'm not a huge swimsuit shopping fan.

my last swimsuit purchase was made 4 years ago. i got a tankini from Victoria's Secret for our honeymoon. I never really loved it. not a huge fan of the quality and it fit weird (online purchase . . . boooo). but i went with it and last year I was probably overdue for a new one but considering I was 6-9 months pregnant during swimsuit season I didn't worry about it much.

but now it was time.

~

i want three things out of a swimsuit:

1) modest. i want to be able to wear it if I run into an apostle. I don't know why an apostle would be anywhere that I'm wearing a swimsuit, but you know what I'm saying.

2) comfortable and supportive. one of the things I hate most about swimsuits is that everything feels so footloose-and-fancy-free and I'm constantly tugging here and there to avoid overexposure.

3) cute. of course.

you can find any one requirement in one swimsuit or another. but to find all three requirements in one? near impossible.

~

one time I made up a dream swimsuit in my mind.

It was a sporty tankini. Probably made by Nike. Had lots of built-in support. Had boy-cut shorts for the bottom (I don't to undies-bottoms). and was cute. I think I saw one online when I googled it. went for $80 dollars. I don't spend $80 dollars on a swimsuit.

~

So the hunt began.

I found a few candidates, each slightly lacking in one requirement or another.

We looked all around.

on our way home from Dicks (no luck there, stupid saggy Reebok tankini), we approached TJMaxx. Hmmmmm. I started to feel like we should stop. No, no. TJMaxx had failed us much too much lately. There was no point. But the feeling persisted. So we went.

~

Do you think God cares enough about my swimsuit to tell me to go to TJMaxx?

Probably not.

but He cares about modesty. And He cares about my happiness.

And you know what?

In TJMaxx there was ONE cute navy/white/green Nike tankini with boy-cut shorts.

ONE.

Exactly my size.

Original price: $76 dollars.

Erin-takes-it-home price: $19.99.

made my day.

I would put I picture of myself in it. but that would be really weird.

so instead I'll put a picture of Carly in hers.

if i can rock a swimsuit the way this girl can, i will be a happy woman this summer.

ps. the Penguins just came back from being down 0-3 to win in overtime 4-3. amazingness. that made my day, too. totally worth scrunching over the computer to watch the little screen with headphones in so I don't wake the kraken.

bring on round 2.

pss. i L-O-V-E this picture of carly. she is such a wild thing, amongst her fellow lions.

xoxoxo.