Monday, March 15, 2010

Parents can have FUN!


This weekend Jeff and I took Ella to her first parade! Unfortunately, I forgot to bring the camera and we only got a couple crappy pics with the Iphone. I posted the one picture we managed to remember to take. Ella has been snarling lately...kind of a growl mixed with a smirk while showing all of her teeth. Its not my favorite look, however Jeff thinks its adorable.
Anyways...so we went to the parade and met up with some friends. We took Ella's stroller, diaper bag, cooler with beer and all of our green gear and headed down to Greenville Ave. I brought 6 beers for Jeff and I to share. I figured now that we have a baby we should be more responsible and prudent in our decision making (so, I felt that 6 beer was pretty conservative for a day at the parade).
Our friends showed up a couple minutes after us equipped with Jameson Irish whiskey, Baileys Irish cream and Guiness, all the makings for Irish car bombs before noon. Jeff has given up liquor for Lent, so I thought I should take one for the team and participate in this very Irish drinking tradition. Thankfully, I had clean cups with us and wet wipes for easy clean up....yep, I am a mom now....
We put the bottles next to Ella's stroller when we were done and had a couple coolers with beer around us and a couple of empty cans strewn about. I admit, it looked bad. Ella looked like an alcoholic and her parents looked worse. A friend of a friend comes by and takes pictures of the stroller (in all its glory). I wish that I had that pic to post. I will try and find it.
Then another friend comes over a excitedly proclaims, "Wow! You can have fun when you have kids. You guys give us hope!" Huh. Interesting. People without kids think that people with kids are lame. Boo. We can still have fun, I explained. Its just that you can only have 50% fun. You can go out, but for only half the time. You can drink, but only half as much.
So, as all our child-less friends packed up and headed to the St. Patricks day block party, we headed home, but only after we scored half a bottle of Jameson that a friend had left next to the stroller... Thanks, Michael Kelly.

3 comments:

  1. It gets better and easy to have fun as the kids get older too...right behind you Meag :)

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  2. Hahaa, I am shocked Mike left behind alcohol!! So glad you had fun- us mommies DO need it!!

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