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Long time no post ~ all for good reason, life has been a whirl wind and not so much in a good way! Let's start with my fun Mother stories! So my mother had been wearing these really really short robes and I'm sure your like so what's wrong with that? well what's wrong is she's naked under those short robes! So as you can imagine the anger was building and building with each day the naked short robe appeared until one day I get home from a crappy day at work and my mother is smoking out the back door (yes, in the naked robe) and the children and I are all in the kitchen when I announce "look kids grandma is in her giblet robe" My son (who's 15) say's "Mom what's a giblet robe?" I said "well if your Grandma bends over you'll see her giblets!" my daughter had no clue but my son was obviously disgusted. My mother said nothing and when and changed robes. So then a bit later I took a friday off to head to camp early with my girl scouts when mom came up stairs in her pj' s and said her dogs had peed on her robes so she wore my sons sweatshirt jacket outside on the back porch to smoke, keep in mind the jacket was waist length. So I am washing up some dishes and have a full view of her on my back porch and as I'm washing I'm praying (shock I know) that my neighbors do not come outside and see her in her shorty shorts pj's, these things are so short if she walked her "giblets" might be seen! So I say nothing and when I get to camp (my co-leader is my neighbor) I start to tell the "giblet" story and  my neighbor says "oh, yeah my husband came in one day and said I saw Tracie's mom outside in her robe and I don't think she was wearing anything underneath" her response was "no Wade, I'm sure she had pj's on under" to which I bust out laughing and said "Becky, she was indeed naked under that robe!" ~ oh the horror! so I am now stewing in "giblet" juice all weekend so when I got home from camp on Sunday that was the first thing I told my mom that she needed to wear more approiate pj's and robes and that the neighbors noticed her lack of attire! so she wigged out and I then had to remind her who's house it really was, then she went on "so I can't wear my shorty shorts this summer" I said "no, you can't" and she said so "I can't lay out in the backyard and tan?" I said "no, you can't the three mother's here (my neighbors and I) don't ever lay out so our children are not use to 1/2 naked women running around the backyard so again "NO" and really who wants to see a 64 year old women in her bikini ??? Don't get me wrong she looks great for her age but she still has 64 year old skin and that skin is wrinkled and sagging! Also know that while I was growing up these things were never an issue she never wore shorty shorts, giblet robes and giblet pj's so as you can imagine it's a change for me! here is a picture of the giblet robe, I had to act like I was taking a picture of the dogs!!!!!!!!!!!