Sunday, August 3, 2008
The Twilight Zone of Expectant Parenthood
I'm pooped. We spent all of yesterday looking - looking at new furniture for the shift that's going on furniture-wise as nursery preparation, looking for hours and hours at baby stuff at Babies "R" Us. It was incredibly Twilight Zone-ish. It was the first time I was in a store just for expectant parents/parents/friends of babies, the Man and I felt like interlopers. Maybe it was the fact that we were laughing at all of the ridiculous trappings of parenthood; microwave bottle sterilizers, Big Brother-esque baby monitoring devices, and strollers that look like urban tanks for midgets. We talked and argued and laughed and made decisions and I derided the whole "land of pink" that seems to be the baby girl's lot these days. It was a relief to sit down and scarf a grilled cheese with tomato and a vanilla black cherry malt. Delish. I'm feeling more prepared as to what our life is going to be like materially but I'm sure it's nothing compared to the reality. Phew.
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Babies R Us is the pit of hell. Even for seasoned parents.
ReplyDeleteSo ummm no "Land of Pink" for the baby girl? She'll rebel at the age of 11 and go all pink you know unless you get it out early :)
ReplyDeleteRemind me to tell you my Babies R Us story. That store really frightens me.
Don't buy a load of stuff! You really don't need much - a moses basket and a car seat and something to wheel the little tyke about in until she can walk - or try to get one product that combines all three of above. A sling is handy for the first months, too, but I just shudder when I see all those walking frame things, and baby gyms, and endless cr*pola that poor beleagured first time parents are bamboozled into thinking they need. Rant over.
ReplyDelete"urban tanks for midgets" HA! And totally. It's the same people that get the Escalade-Hummer-Armadas and park like shit that then get the pre-SUV for their kid and take up the whole friggin' sidewalk/waiting area/insert-public-space-here. Oh well. You should get one with lasers and boomboxes on it, that'd be an awesome new level!
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