‘After fifteen minutes I already know exactly which fathers have been sterilized’
Laura Hogendoorn is editor-in-chief of Mamaplaats and columnist for Kek Mama. She lives in ‘t Gooi, together with her boyfriend Oscar and their children Roef (8), Sierd (6) and Maia (4).
Ping. Message on my phone. I see the topic of a new group app: BBB. For a moment I think: that must stand for Belly, Billen and Legs, so a sports club! Until I realize that I haven’t touched a barbell, kettlebell or fitness machine in the past ten years. Okay, so low chance.
The message turns out to be from a mother from the class. Whether I come to the Bussumse Babe Borrel. The what?! Now, before I came to live in ‘t Gooi, I had imagined what it would be like, but that I would be invited on a normal Tuesday afternoon for the Bussumse Babe Borrel I had not foreseen in my wildest dreams.
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Only the nice mothers
The message continues: she had the idea to – and now it comes – ‘drinking prosecco with the FUN moms in class’. I’ll admit right away: I normally have little to no trouble putting away one or more glasses or bottles of prosecco. I do with love. But I still stumble over the word ‘nice’. I look at who has been invited: of the 28 mothers in the class, there appear to be 23.
“I still stumble over that one word”
Ah, we’re back in high school. Where the piss poles are of course not invited to the class party. Only we are now in our thirties with three children hanging from our leg. Can’t believe this? I text back that it seems very nice to me, but that I would really like it if all the mothers in the class were asked.
For everyone
On the night of the BBB, all I have to do is go up to the Coco Chanel sky to know which corner of the pub our party is taking place in. The Burberry pattern is also well represented among the ladies. And the prosecco flows freely. After fifteen minutes I already know exactly which fathers have been sterilized. But most importantly, everyone is there.
That evening we agree to start a sports club for all the mothers in the class. Because it is high time to put those Belly, Billen and Legs to work again, the others also think.
This article is in the Kek Mama Love Special 2022.
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