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  • Strollerderby Playdate: Where Have All the Babies Gone?

    And so it goes: The cute little buggers grow up.  You bring them home all swaddled tight in a crappy little hospital blanket that you will never, ever throw away and three minutes later, their sitting on the big potty. Ninety seconds after that, they need prom dates and braces and a good dermatologist. And of course, that's the blessing and the stuff of tear-warped scrapbooks.

    In the whir of holidays and schedules and pick-ups and drop-offs and the fast-forward of our daily living to take pause and just look at these children, sprung up out of round bellies and thigh rolls, coos from the crib and little parties at all hours of the morning. Even as we celebrate their triumphs and successes, even as we toss the training wheels and cheer for the end of the binky dependency, will we always have a little lust for the babies they are, or at least, once were? 

    These mamas are caught up in the ch-ch-ch-changes:

    Catherine from Her Bad Mother's watching her little bird take flight. 

    Susan from Friday Playdate's sure someone's replaced her baby with a giggle-happy curiousity-stricken kid. 

    Our own CityMama's watching her girls grow up on the beaches of Hawaii  (and making my own concrete back"yard" seem even sadder).

    RockstarMommy's baby hasn't become a toddler, he's become a terrorist who is plotting to kill her.  

    And Magpie Musing's already prepping for the Hillary Duff experience.

    (Oh, and this makes me want to dig out Where Did the Baby Go? just for the occasion).


  • Strollerderby Playdate: Complete and Utter Early Week Randomness

    You know how you arrive at Monday with a brain packed full of randomness, full of all the stuff you accidentally-on-purpose keep forgetting to add to your weekly to-do list, full of all the stuff you totally meant to do over the weekend but chalked up because of laundry the sweet and delicious lull after hitting the bottle Friday, full of questions about who the fuck is inside that sloth on It's A Big Big World? And you think your thinking that way just because it is Monday. And then you wake up on Tuesday, thinking the same looky-loo stuff? Not to worry. You're not alone.

    The blogosphere's abuzz with other parents waxing poetic about lots of very important details and also nearly nothing at all. You've got to click through, if only to justify all the stuff in your head that's funking up any hope of productivity before Wednesday.

    First stop, Mom Writes about some kind of hornaaaay junior high encounter that every single smart girl I know's dreamt at least once.

    Skip on over to Vindauga for a little list of conversation bits that looks a lot like the one I keep by the phone to remind myself to tell my own BFF.

    Next, Rockstar Mommy's making a statement about making statements, having opinions and not taking everything in life so seriously. And the irritating kid who delivers the paper. And something about Tara Reid that's both disturbing and entertaining. Oh, and kittens.

    Jump over to see how expertly Mir compares the kidlets to farm animals (and you thought it couldn't be done) and makes me want to drink just to think that I have about twenty more spring breaks to get through.

    Then land right here with Amalah,who's talking about two of our favorite things here at Strollerderby, snot and name-calling.

     
    Are you going on and on about complete randomness, either in your head or on your blog? Get it out in the comments, people! Just get it out.



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