Big Plans, Big Plans

I've been really into organizing events this month.

There's Birth Video Night this Friday (which was actually my friend Jen's idea, but she wanted my help with organizing it because I'm good at strong-arming people into showing their birth videos). We've been doing these Birth Video Nights for a couple years now, and they are a wonderful flow of oxytocin and togetherness for all of us birth junkies. You should consider organizing them in your area, if you haven't already.

Another thing you should consider organizing are Adult Playdates. Except don't call them "Adult Playdates" because people will make fun the name because it sounds perverted (because anything with the word "Adult" in it sounds perverted now-a-days, so they tell me). So then you'll have to change the name to "Grown Up Fun Times", which, depending on the state of your mind, could sound equally perverted (in which case, you could make ANYTHING sound perverted, even innocent phrases like "telescope" and "your grandma's washing machine".) So, I organized the first Grown Up Fun Time for September. We'll be going rollerskating, where we can act like kids again and forget that in our real lives we have kids who cry when you flush the toilet after you go to the bathroom (because SHE wanted to do it, so you have to pretend to go to the bathroom all over again just so she can flush it), and mortgages and car insurance and grocery bills and all the rest of it.

And the last of my party planning events is this Boobs and Brinner photography thing. Basically, it's a 3 hour event where nursing moms come together, bring a dish to share, and have a nursing pictures taken (by yours truly) for a fraction of the cost ($25) of a normal session. (I got the idea from this website.)

So, all this equates to is: Allison Is Getting a Life. Yes, that's right. I'm creating events that I enjoy doing (watching birth videos, acting like a kid, photography) so that I can get the most of my life. Things outside of parenting and meal preparation and not flushing the toilet so my daughter can flush it. Not that all that stuff isn't wonderful and all (because it is, I love that part of my life too. I'm happy, remember!)... but having these other events helps with keeping balance and equilibrium in my life. (Which also fits into my equation for happiness.)