A recap from both May & I:

Thanks to everyone for taking time on your busy Saturday morning to come to Sovereign Grounds for some coffee and conversation!

Like all first-time party-throwers, we wondered if anybody would show up. At the very least, we thought, there’d be the both of us for coffee. And our kids could play. But then they started arriving…about a dozen with babies, toddlers and big kids in tow. Some of our best friends on Cribsheet. Whom we’d never met! Talk about cognitive dissonance.

  A stranger would show up, announce her name, and suddenly, she   was a stranger no more. Here were regular commenters Darcie, Becky and Katy, who also happens to be our alerter of all happenings Swedish.

 (Becky & Frank)

There were Kim and Samara, “strangers” who’d got together for coffee a few months back after “meeting” on Cribsheet (yes, their husbands were worried about the stranger met online…) and ended up talking for three hours.

Here was Eileen, a non-breeder who posts musings on her niece (yes, the fracture is healing nicely, thanks for the tips, Cribsheeters)

It was funny how we all had a mental picture of each other from our comments and posts, and we could feel our brains working overtime to reconcile those pictures with the real people crowding the playroom at Sovereign Grounds (thank you, Hakan, for the fabby space). Several people insisted that we had to change our photos on Cribsheet because we looked nothing like them (!).

The morning flew by like an extended Cribsheet post - only 100X better!

Robin talked about her weekend at BlogHer (and brought her schwag bag) - thanks Robin! Lori on how ECFE kept her sane, Kim about why she wants a minivan.

The kids enjoyed themselves too.  May’s Zoe whispered to May’s confusion that she had met Ann’s Zoe before, “at a different playdate.” Turned out they had - on a day when May’s husband had the kids. Even our kids make unexpected connections.

And Chris’ Joe and Kay’s Viv crawled up to each other and shared a very sweet nuzzle.

As May stated - there wouldn’t be a Cribsheet without the readers and commenters. Thank you all for being a part of this ever growing community.

 Keep watching for more Cribsheet get togethers in the future - we hope to have many more!

A special shout out (in hopes that she will comment) to “Lori the Lurker” for coming in all the way from Delano on a weekend to meet us in South Mpls.

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