Meet Mama Lolo

Welcome to Stroller Talk, I am your hostess, Mama Lolo. I have created this site for you, the active, talkative, stroller parent.  The kind of parent that finds daily therapy on a path gabbing away with other stroller parents.  Have you ever paid attention to your conversations?  They are filled with humor, joy, tragedy, and plenty of drama.  This site was created to hear your stories and experiences of parenthood and share a few of my own. 

A lifetime of adventure brought me to this point.  I started my worldly travels at age 16, when my parents sent me to Spain for school.  This was during the Iran Contra era and hightened terrorist warnings.  From there on it was one crazy adventure after the next.  I've had many memorable moments.  I once ran through Red Square at night in the pouring rain.  I hunted crocodiles in the Amazon River by moonlight.  I climbed to the top of Machu Pichu. I lived in an abandoned building in Amsterdam for a week.  I jumped out of a plane in Mexico, landing on the beach.  I hitchhiked across New Zealand and motored through the outback of Australia in a utility truck. I spent three weeks at sea on a racing sailboat.  I was young, crazy and invincible.

I studied television and film and graduated from the University at age 23.   I became the anchor for a resort town morning show.  I did typical local stories and occasionally got to interview the stars. (John Corbett, what a dreamboat)  Just when I thought I had found my calling I went on vacation in Mexico and fell in love with traveling all over again.  I came home, sold everything I owned and ran off to Mexico.  I traded my TV job for a hammock and a bikini..  Eventually the beach just wasn't enough so I put on a backpack and spent the next 8 years traveling around the world.  I worked where I could.  I taught English in Spain, bartended in the Canary Islands, waited tables in Mexico, imported jewelry from Thailand and finally landed a job on a cruise ship. I worked on 4 major cruise lines as the Port Lecturer and then as Art Auctioneer. It was the most amazing job ever, filled with traveling, love, and friendships that would last a life time. But something was always missing.

I always said that if I had to leave this earth tomorrow I had done every single thing I had ever wanted to do except one, have children. I had wanted a baby since I was 17 years old, my lifestyle just never allowed it. .   I was in my 30's, still traveling heavily and beginning to wonder if I would ever have that "family" dream.  On the weekend of my sister's wedding that all changed.  I ran into a long lost friend of mine and life was never the same again.  That is the night I met my husband "Big Daddy".  Now I just needed one more thing to make my life complete. On Dec. 12 my dream came true. We conceived our beautiful daughter.  She came into this world in September and my world was complete.  Well,  almost complete...18 months later she was joined by her beautiful,bouncing, baby brother.

A few weeks after our little girl was born, my sister, Mama Kelly, took me shopping for my first stroller.  She had her baby boy in his stroller rolling along.  We bought a Graco, assembled it in the store and stepped out into the world as two hot stroller mamas.  I was so proud! I was proud to tell the world, "Hey, look at me, I am a Mama!"

In the first months of her life I went for many stroller walks with my friends. It was my daily therapy.  It was my ticket out of the house to refresh.  We had such a great time talking about every subject in the world.  We covered every topic imaginable; kids, men, other women, sex or lack of.  I wondered what parents all over the place were talking about.  That is where Stroller Talk began.  I ask you to share this wonderful, sometimes trying  journey of parenthood with me. Send me your real stories, send me your pictures.  Let's share this crazy ride - welcome to Stroller Talk.