Comments on: Liquor Makes an Excellent Baby Shower Gift

By: ONE of the last, but not THE last. This is an important distinction. | Playgroups are No Place For Children

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:05:19 +0000

[...] didn’t make cheerleading in 7th grade because I was awful. I couldn’t do herkies or pikes or toe touches, or even remember two [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:02:00 +0000

Jenny, I remember that day well since we went through it together … we’ll have to differ in our opinions, though, because I always loved your hair and your outfits … and you DID make the modeling try-outs! Luv, Ashley

By: Jen

Jen — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:25:00 +0000

(Wiggling Spirit Fingers at Jen)

Oh Jen. Just remember, the REAL cool peeps were in the band!

(Ending post with some serious Jazz Hands)

By: mommiebear2

mommiebear2 — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:40:00 +0000

Isnt it funny how “ill” some childhood memories make us. I think of all of the things I want the kids to do or not do when they get that age – guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

By: Slackermommy

Slackermommy — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:32:00 +0000

Amen! Thanks for stopping by my blog.

By: In the Trenches of Mommyhood

In the Trenches of Mommyhood — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:36:00 +0000

Good post! (as I sit here and shudder to think about those bygone high school days…)

But the gin and tonic hovering at my right elbow as I type is helping me to just laugh at how dorky I was…yet I thought I was soooo cool.

By: moosh in indy.

moosh in indy. — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:22:00 +0000

Cheerleading required more liquor for me than no cheerleading.
Cheerleading made me a lush.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:26:00 +0000

My cheerleading “career” went as far as the informational meeting. After that, I knew I had neither the skills nor the peppiness that is required of a cheerleader. Maybe Petunia will want to be a flag girl like her Aunt Sarah! Us “flaggets”, as we were commonly referred to, were good girls. Yes, we may have been dorky, but we didn’t life the rock star life like the cheerleaders. I mean, they had the football players to drool over…we had the band geeks.

PS…I really like your blog! I had no idea you had such writting skills.

PPS…This is you sister-in-law in case you haven’t guessed it by now

By: Beckie

Beckie — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:01:00 +0000

I think liquor is a must have, but not necessarily for a shower- unless said shower is taking place after the birth. I don’t think I could stand looking at it and knowing it was there for the last few weeks! Maybe an excellent “coming home from the hospital” present.
It does break your heart when things upset your kid(s). I think things hurt my feelings for Charity more than the same thing would have hurt my feelings for me when I was a kid. Ahhh, the joys of parenthood!

By: supa

supa — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:46:00 +0000

Impossible. We seem to have had the exact same traumatizing cheerleading tryouts (except my school colors were black and gold. Go Jackets! Or don’t go, whatever, i didn’t want to be on this dumb squad anyway).

I never tried out for anything ever again, either.