Its Friday. The weekend is upon us and I feel generous. I have an idea to run past you, and if you’re interested I commit to silent-partnership. You research, fund and execute the project, work out the pesky liabilities, and my silent partnership will support your endeavor. Win-win, no? You do all the work, and we share the profits 50/50? I’m full of great ideas, just a bit taxed in the energy and dinero areas.
Here’s my brainchild: Mommy Bars. You heard it here first. Here in the heartland winter descended hard and heavy. What better way to combat cabin fever than a warm gathering place for parents and tots to gather and toast the new year? I see a party bus with plush built in car seats. Each neighborhood could have a designated pick up. Immediately after the Elementary School bus, perhaps? I see a big, padded/inflatable play room for tots and perhaps some teenage assistants to help out the tipsy legal guardians?
Imagine the Happy Hour earning potential! Bring your own sippy cup, 2-for-1 apple juice, “Babies Night” where Mom’s drink free? Goldfish crackers make the perfect bar snack for moms and tots alike. Or Cheerios, for that matter. Not to mention wasabi peas! Nursing mothers may want to lay off the wasabi peas. I almost put my first born in a coma after sipping a wasabi bloody mary and subsequently nursing him. Imagine the fun of Jello shots! Just make sure the servers keep the ‘baby’ and ‘mommy’ trays separate, right? Then again, how many times did I refill someone’s explicitly decaf with caf in my waitressing days…See how easily this get dicey? That’s why I need you! Now accepting applicants. Morally high-grounded Mommies need not apply.
Brilliant idea! I’d be all over it if I had the funds.
Please save me a seat at the Mommy bar! Sounds like my kind of place
By the way, I gave you an award on my blog. Thanks for making me laugh!
OH! Great idea! I volunteer my 18 yr old daughter to baby-sit, and my 17 year old son to be DD. I might be cajoled into making jello shots on occasion too.
I think that would be an immediate success – the Mommy Bar.
Yup.
You’re on to something, girlie!
Great idea! Here’s my suggestion: you give me lots of cash and I don’t kill anyone. The money we save on bail and my legal defense, we split 50:50. Deal?
I would only be interested if there were an opportunity for dad’s (stay-at-home and otherwise)to stop in now and again…
Can the party bus come and pick me up?? This is the best idea I’ve heard all YEAR 😉
But what if i am not a mommy?
Guess i cannot be your silent but willing partner huh???
I’m just saying!!??
Love this post. Very creative and great writing. I also dig the idea!
And, yeah, I made that same mistake with wasabi peas when I was nursing my first. What a nightmare. Lesson learned.
Kirsten, perhaps you can chair a fund-raising committee? Surely you have time for that 😉
Janna, Shucks…thanks, friend!
Dizz, suh-weet maybe we can get some tax breaks for a family run bidness.
Janie, Great. Go for it! Can’t wait!
Marinka…OR you could be the bouncer.
IB, absolutely! Deal! Deal?
Julia’s IN!
Michelle, even better! Yes, bring in some non-kid conversation and energy. Your hired.
Michele, Thanks! I swear the baby was OUT after my wasabi (ok and Vodka) sipping. Scared me shtless.
Oh where were you when my kids were little and I REALLY needed something like this???
The idea is brilliant!
I think PBS might go for it!
That is absolutely brilliant! I don’t have any money to help, but I would certainly be on that bus! Throw in at least one night of Chippendale dancers and I might be inclined to head up a fundraiser for you though. 😀
I always kind of wished I’d bee non Timothy Leary’s bus in the 60’s, but this might run a close second.
Joanie, does that mean you are launching our fantasy bar? THANKS A MILLION!
Comedy, I’m all over that. I can whore the whole place up with Word Girl, and Super Why and, Elmo and and and
Angie? Fund-raising chair. Done.
WA, the wheels on the bus go round and round…
Damn. I thought maybe you were looking for a silent partner. There is nothing more appealing than sitting back watching someone else do all the work.
I’ll be waiting for an invite to the grand opening!
Why this may be as good an invention as the Post It Note was.
Years from now, we could have vague memories of a life without Mommy Bars.
Hi Lyndsay,
Maybe we can both be silent partners. Now go ahead and do all the work of finding out talking parnter, okay? Great!
Beth, If only…
Hmm…if you add pedicures and seated massages chairs, I can get behind that one.
dammit- I’m in. Can I have vodka with my apple juice?????
I’m not a mom but I’ll work the bar. No sweat.
Melissa, Done
VM, Yes, but its nasty. I’ve tried it. Better off straight up.
Braja, Stop it, that’s too perfect.
no worries about walking home tipsy, you can always catch a ride home in a designated stroller.
I’ll drink to that! I could bartend… and my two could provide the entertainment… they’re a little older and used to mommy drinking. wink wink.
I’m there! No, really, I want to go there. Second best would be a Starbucks with child care. Or, hell, I’d settle for an indoor playground.
Whaddya mean? Let me at the drinks cabinet, you bitch!!
Braja, chill Yogi. I meant in the sage bartender lending an ear/giving advice way.
Lisa, Welcome! I like it…designated strollers
Adlibby, SUH-weet. Cheers!
AnyMommy, Really. I WANT you to come. LETs go. Now?
Have I got a meme for you! Come on down!
xo
I think that’s a delicious idea.
Will there be an area to lay down our rugs for naptime?
Pearl
SOmeone cut Braja off.