There’s just no getting around it.

Posted by Mandy on November 30th, 2007 filed in Musings, Parenty

I think I am a yuppie.

Lately, it seems like a lot of the people I know in my specific demographic fit a profile (and I thought I was being all new-wave and stuff). Here are a few of the things on my checklist:

  • Baby? Check.
  • Baby carrier/sling (probably in various versions and types, including but not limited to the Ergo, Moby Wrap, and/or Mai Tei)? Check.
  • Homemade quilt(s)/knits/slings? Check.
  • Bread making? Check.
  • Obsessive research into safety/plastics (bottles, sippy cups, pacifiers, teethers)? Check.
  • Cloth diapering? Check.
  • Breastfeeding? Check.
  • Diamond engagement ring, yet eco-minded and socially conscious? Check.
  • Learning to sign with baby? Check.
  • Making homemade organic baby food? Check.
  • Trying to have only wooden toys (although I am not doing so hot on this one)? Check.

All in all, these are good things. Healthy things! I think it’s very interesting that this, at least for a small but significant percentage of this group, is the norm. It still makes me laugh, though, because lately all of these things combined make me feel a bit like a hipster or something. Go figure.



5 Responses to “There’s just no getting around it.”

  1. Your Sister Says:
    November 30th, 2007 at 5:13 pm

    One of my coworkers who grew up around there said that you’d probably be near a lot of good, hippie folks.

  2. Your Sister Says:
    November 30th, 2007 at 5:14 pm

    But hippies with a lot of money …

  3. Mandy Says:
    November 30th, 2007 at 5:33 pm

    Your coworker is correct in both respects!

  4. Vanessa Says:
    November 30th, 2007 at 7:15 pm

    …and I crazily go between that handmade, more-organic-than you world and the world where people buy every new, expensive thing that comes down the pike, bonus points if it is a Hanna. My friend was talking about bath toys today, and I laughed about the fact that Will plays with an emesis basin while he gets bathed. How strange is that? He loves that nasty-ass mauve thing. I decided to buck the systems a little and buy a few things from Wal-Mart, but then I start thinking about where that stuff gets made, who makes it, and I get disturbed. This is all crazy-making, and made worse by the fact that we spread the crazy around. I, for one, am very insecure, and find myself “competing” a lot.

  5. Your Sister Says:
    December 1st, 2007 at 4:17 pm

    It seems a lot more expensive to be organic and hippie now…

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