What every mother wants to last
One of the trillion things that change when you start playing mommy and daddy for real is that you mainly move the coziness to your own kitchen table. Where you used to meet your friends in pubs and the restaurant of the moment, now you invite everyone to your kitchen table. You don't know that many good babysitters yet, and if you still wanted to hang out three days a week, you might as well have gotten a goldfish. You have a child and you are in love with it, so you stay close.
I turned out to be quite the mother hen, so you could picture me at the kitchen table with a sleeping child on my lap. Occasionally, a drop of cheese fondue would fall on my little one's head, and sometimes a bit of Chardonnay would spill over the pink blanket covering her legs, but she was always there, at the epicenter of our dinners at home.
Very quickly, a bouncer came that I placed on the table, and when sitting up straight became possible, it meant a hard entry to bring the Tripp Trapp chair from Stokke into the room. I have a thing for Tripp Trapp chairs. They represent coziness in a home where children live and fit seamlessly, but where no one walks around in socks and phones don't need to be silenced when ‘the little one’ is sleeping. I always saw Tripp Trapp chairs at nice people's homes. Nice people with kitchen tables that were lived at. Where a stack of magazines got into a relationship with the latest cookbook by Sergio Herman, where car keys beckoned to three unopened envelopes. Such a table.
What is also funny about those Stokke Tripp Trapp chairs is that they have a pulling effect on adults. If it's free, I immediately grab it. Because I sit nice and high and active too. And maybe also because I make sure that chair never disappears from the interior. Because even though children can sit on a ‘normal‘ chair for a long time, I would prefer to screw that Tripp Trapp to the floor. If only to be reminded every day of the time that has gone by far too quickly.
Jennifer from Blog by Jenn is also a fan of the Tripp Trapp chairs. Just take a look.
In collaboration with Stokke
