Blog Baby Fever
30Oct2003 Filed under: Geek OutLike Liz, I’m totally all a-twitter over the impending return of Mimi Smartypants. Mimi is off in China right now with her husband, LT, finalizing the adoption of their daughter, Nora. Very exciting stuff.
I’m also irrationally excited over the product of Matt and The Queen’s “Project Squirelly” and Heather and Jon’s impending baby over at the blurbodoocery. If blogs like Fussy are any indication, witty parent + wacky tot = endless writing material and hours of bloggertainment.
Babies, however, do present some interesting blog ethics issues. I worry that one or more of my favorite bloggers (especially respected privacy hounds like Mimi “You’ll never see my face, hear my name, or know where I work” Smartypants) will stop writing, and my little blogger heart breaks. It’s also strange to be excited for strangers’ babies. Then again, I suppose my uterus makes this excitement completely out of my control. Baby crack trumps sanity, yet again.
In other baby news, Baby Hank’s first birthday is coming right up!
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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brodie
October 30th, 2003 at 12:47 pm
the best blog/journal of baby-dom yet, for me has to be the hysterically funny “the story about the baby”
@ http://www.ironycentral.com
Ariel
October 30th, 2003 at 1:22 pm
Ah yes. It’s been a while since I’ve caught up with that site. Thanks for the reminder. Hilarious stuff. I about choked on my stifled giggles at work.
I was taking Cordelia out of her car seat and she hit me. So I said, “No.â€And then she hit me again. And I said, “No!â€And she swung at me again, missed, and smacked herself in the nose.
I suppose it is wrong for a parent to ever delight in the tears of their child. However, on occasion, I think it is all right to silently enjoy it when providence provides a little bit of unexpected justice.
Kate
October 31st, 2003 at 7:03 am
me too!
dave
October 31st, 2003 at 6:41 pm
Baby crack, huh? Yeah… well I think I’ve hit rock bottom, and I’m ready for a 12 -step program.
the mighty jimbo
November 2nd, 2003 at 10:26 pm
beware the power of the uterus. beware!
the mighty jimbo
November 3rd, 2003 at 8:40 am
btw - does this mean we are gonna see little hoopers wiggling around this site anytime soon?
Ariel
November 3rd, 2003 at 11:07 am
Not immediately, but probably within a couple years.