Laura Hogendoorn is editor-in-chief of Mamaplaats and columnist of Kek Mama. She lives in ‘t Gooi, along 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 mean Belly, Billen and Legs, a sports club Like this! Until I realize I haven’t touched a barbell, kettlebell, or fitness machine for the past decade. Ok, so little chance.
The message appears to come from a mother of the class. If 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 I didn’t foresee in my wildest dreams that I would be invited to the Bussumse Babe Borrel on a regular Tuesday afternoon.
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Only the beautiful mothers
The message continues: he had the idea – and now comes – to ‘drink prosecco with FUN mothers in class’. I’ll admit it straight away: I normally have little or no problem putting away one or more glasses or bottles of prosecco. I do it with love. But I keep stumbling upon the word ‘beautiful’. I look at who was invited: of the 28 mothers in the class, there seem to be 23.
“I keep tripping over that word”
Ah, we’ve come to secondary school. Where pissers are obviously not invited to the class party. Except we’re in our thirties now with three children hanging from our leg. Can’t believe it? I reply that it seems very nice to me, but that I would love it if all the mothers in the class were asked.
For everyone
On the night of the BBB I just have to go up to Coco Chanel’s sky to find out in which corner of the pub our party will be held. The Burberry motif is also well represented among women. And the prosecco flows free. After fifteen minutes I already know exactly which fathers there are sterilized to be. But above all, they are all there.
That evening we meet to start a sports club, for all the mothers of the class. Because the time has come to get those Belly, Billen and Legs back to work, the others think too.
This article is in the Kek Mama Love Special 2022.
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