Ballerina Farm had her baby
A developing story (WHAT IS MY JOB)
My job is weird. While I (MOSTLY) no longer feel compelled to consume picture-perfect renditions of Ideal Motherhood™ on Instagram as a way to stoke the fires of my own maternal malcontent, I do still keep tabs on momfluencers to understand the power of Ideal Motherhood™. This means, of course, that I have been checking Instagram daily for news of the newest addition to the Ballerina Farm empire.
Hannah has posted a few stories about nesting, but the bulk of oblique updates have come from Window Poet Laureate Daniel, who posted about newborn clothes shopping (one would assume, that with 7 children already, they’d have approximately 8,321 huge tupperware crates of newborn hand-me-downs??? BUT I DIGRESS).
And this little snippet ⬇️ which I can bravely say I found to be patently obnoxious!!!!
Last night at 4:30 PM (if it’s dark, it’s nighttime - I don’t make the rules), I had just finished interviewing the delightful Kate Kennedy about her new book, when I did one last little check on Mr. and Mrs. BF (nothing), and was just about to close ye olde laptop, when I remembered the existence of Hannah’s sister, Micka, a mother of ten who has fashioned herself as something of a glamour DIY influencer (in addition to crafting dramatic ball gowns out of dramatic fabrics, she also likes to create thin-person outfits from fat-person clothing, which is ick and which
wrote about briefly here in her excellent analysis of the Millennial Tuck).ANYWAY, Micka is fascinating (to me), and I was utterly flummoxed when I saw that she had casually shared a photo of Hannah with her new baby BEFORE HANNAH AND DANIEL HAD.