Do you remember when you had a lot of beautiful, small and perfectly tidy bags that you combined with different styles and colors? If you are an off-road mom, you may no longer recognize yourself, since "the bag" has completely changed its meaning and content. But, What do all-terrain moms carry in their purses?
Preparing the bag can be a real exercise in risk control, forecasting, resource management and even divinatory powers. Nothing can with you if you carry your bag. Neither a hurricane, nor a glaciation, nor a famine nor a zombie invasion I would almost say. But of course no setback will catch you out of play. We will review what the moms carry in the bag.
Like Mary Poppins' bag: practical, more than aesthetic
It is true that it matters little if it combines with your clothes, it is more important that you can carry everything you need and that you are ready to leave, that it is quite difficult to have the child eaten and changed to put you to entertain yourself in changing all your equipment container. Aesthetics gives way to practicality.
And there is everything inside. And when I say everything, I do not exaggerate. Inside a mother's bag are clothes, toys, food, medicines, mucus-filled handkerchiefs and clean handkerchiefs, some tales. Before leaving home you may not pass the comb but you will not stop checking that you wear diapers, wipes and even a spare pacifier in case the wearer falls too many times to the floor full of crap. Being a mom changes everything.
Like a TARDIS: bigger inside than outside
A mother's bag is usually huge because nobody can imagine the things that you will need to carry inside, but it also has so many things inside that it really seems to be bigger inside than outside, violating the basic physical laws.
Whoever is a mother knows what I mean and who has seen a mother willing to take from the bottom of that gigantic bag treasures, food and anything imaginable, she will have asked if she has any alien science device inside.
The toy bag
There are toys in every mother's bag. It looks like a toy store. They are essential: a plastic dinosaur, a family of pigs, a shovel, a small story, an emergency stuffed animal and any other playful element that can entertain its young in those unbearable moments of the doctor's tail or back home in Car.
In addition, another law is fulfilled, any object that is inside a mother's bag automatically becomes a possible toy. Children do not distinguish, especially babies, if something serves to play and something has another utility. For them everything is new and amazing, they want to touch everything, sound and suck.
Some keys, a notebook, a pencil, a handkerchief of the neck, anything will serve as entertainment as long as we are sure that it cannot be swallowed or stuck in the eye or suffocated with it. The germs that have things in the end stop worrying, you know, "they are defenses." Or so we need to believe so we don't go crazy.
The bag that looks like a suitcase to spend a weekend
Before leaving home we have the child dressed for the temperature in the street, but you never know if the weather is going to change or if the child is going to get anything we put on to stay dry or moderately clean. We will wear so much clothes to spend a weekend out.
If there are puddles, better put some spare shoes. You cannot prevent a child from stepping on the puddles, it is an impossible mission. A body in case the diaper pee escapes, which seem to be done in order to always leave when it comes to us worse. Wipes, baby poop and porridge scattered on the face and the stroller just come out with that. Scarves, socks that your feet sweat so much that they are soaked. A cardigan if it is summer and a complete change if it is winter.
For clothes that are not said. Although in the end you end up lending it to less cautious moms. If the end of the world is not going to catch you without spare clothes, that is clear, even if you have just gone out to make the purchase or have a coffee with the friends you will be prepared for everything.
There are those who include in the equipment an ointment of these curate, strips and a disinfectant, hand soap and even Dalsy if the child had a few decimillas of fever, because, you never know if you are going to delay for some unforeseen event.
A picnic bag
Mom always comes out as if it were a picnic. Hunger and thirst, in children, occur at any time. And nothing unbalances a happy ride more than a child who starts to get in a bad mood because his body asks for calories and nutrients. Inside the bag of the off-road moms we will find a bottle of water, a milkshake, some cookies, nuts, chocolate, a banana and some more things to spend the trouble. Sometimes they will be healthy snacks, but surely there are some sweet goodies too.
The bad thing comes when banana, cookie crumbs, melted chocolate and some spilled liquid end up in the bottom of the bag forming a primordial soup from which some new way of life can possibly arise. In addition, with that plasta the scarves full of mucus that adorn the bottom of the maternal bags are mixed. Cleaning it is quite an odyssey, although with some cleaning wipes each comes out safe.
Well, all that and many more things are those that the off-road moms put in their purse. And surely one day science will discover how we manage to put so many things inside without breaking. We are all-terrain moms and we are more prepared than a command on hostile land.
