The Joy of Swimming with My Thighs

I really do like the water. I enjoy swimming in it, playing it and just being around it.

I love the water so much that when I was a little girl, I wanted to be a mermaid or a dolphin that had magic powers. These powers would allow me to be a dolphin one day and a girl the next. I would spend my days as a dolphin frolicking and playing in the waves and the next day I would be a girl, back with my family. It was a really cool plan.

*sigh* The happiness and innocence of childhood. *sigh*

It goes without saying that I am over joyed my kids have a love of water. Sure, they all love it in varying degrees but each one is willing to play in it and swim around. It makes this Mommy happy.

But swimming when I was a kid and swimming now as a Mommy are two totally different things. When I was a kid, I could spend hours upon hours playing in the waves, splashing and kicking until my legs could no longer go.

Now, when I am in the water, my movement is more restricted because there is usually a child or two hanging on me. I also am forced to get in an out of the water more than I would like.

You see, it is because of these water loving children that I have a little junk in the truck and in the front and on the sides. Oh, lets face it, there is a lot more wiggle to my thighs than in the past.

I am not one of those women blessed with skinny thighs where they don't touch in the middle. I got me some curves, always have and always will. Well, this presents a problem when I am around water.

When I get out of the water, my wonderful thunder thighs hold on to a little bit of the pool or lake. And as I walk, they slowly release it making me feel like I am constantly peeing myself.

So like any normal person, I try to ever so discretely open my legs and stick a plush towel in there to soak up the wetness. But with my crumbliness, it is never discrete because I usually end up losing my balance and falling over a chair or child.

But even though this space or lack of space is dry, it still causes and problem.

So I have dried the skin but I am still wearing a wet swimsuit which makes my skin damp which makes walking very difficult because my thighs not only touch when I stand but the rub together when I walk and add in a little bit of moisture and you get some major chaffing or worse sticking.

There is nothing like trying to walk or run after your child at the pool when your thighs are stuck together. You go and take the first step and nothing. The thighs have joined and there is no separating them without causing more painful chaffing.

I end up having to walk around looking like I have been riding a horse for the past 3 days. It is not pretty and SO not lady-like.

The only solution that I see if for me to stay in the water, keeping my thighs well lubricated, and making requests of others like Daddy or Grandma. This also gives me a chance to channel my inner dolphin once again or maybe now it would be more like my inner whale.