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On some periphery of my online world I’ve been seeing a lot of #squadgoals. For those of you who don’t know your Taylor Swift from your Elizabeth Taylor, #squadgoals is the caption often found under an instagrammy image of a beautiful, young group of people posing-not-really-posing and being uber cool. The trend has done for friendship group pictures what avocado toast has done for snack shots on Instagram – make you feel like an underachieving fatty.
When I’ve seen said images I think (in my best mumsy inside voice) ’teenagers!’ I then carry on
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wiping baby sick from my shoulder. That was until today.
Today I have been recovering from a big night…in with my ’squad’. After a particularly challenging adulting run, last night I took a break. I left kids asleep, pizza for the babysitter and, as if I was partaking in some illicit rendezvous, excitedly met up with other zombie eyed, mum friends to scoff pizza and drink wine. We even played two rounds of taboo.
Yes, MTV music awards with la Swift and her ’squad’ it was not. Fangirling over Bon Jovi and sharing parenting fails while dressed
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in our comfy (possibly stained) tracksuit bottoms, I’m certain we fell short of every squad goal out there. It was, however, pretty awesome. Our squad may have lacked coolness, swag and sass but it certainly met all of my squad goals. Who needs a posse of scantily clad supermodels and singers when you belong to a squad of funny, witty, intelligent Amazonian women who have your back?
In my squad if there’s any pouting to be done, it’s done by the two year old, because in my squad there are only real, kick ass heroines.
Heroines who juggle
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career, problems, fun and family as if evolution had finally caught up with women and given us six arms. They are the everyday heroines who are able to face the world with a smile and nurse a broken heart in dignified silence. Their tenacity and endurance is off the scale. Their sense of humour is wicked and their wit is razor sharp. Their hearts are soft and open and good.
Taylor Swift can keep Selina, because OMG, we’re so #squadgoals.
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Joanna Montegriffo Bailey - 12 Jan 16
On some periphery of my online world I’ve been seeing a lot of #squadgoals. For those of you who don’t know your Taylor Swift from your Elizabeth Taylor, #squadgoals is the caption often found under an instagrammy image of a beautiful, young group of people posing-not-really-posing and being uber cool. The trend has done for friendship group pictures what avocado toast has done for snack shots on Instagram – make you feel like an underachieving fatty.
When I’ve seen said images I think (in my best mumsy inside voice) ‘teenagers!’ I then carry on wiping baby sick from my shoulder. That was until today.
Today I have been recovering from a big night…in with my ‘squad’. After a particularly challenging adulting run, last night I took a break. I left kids asleep, pizza for the babysitter and, as if I was partaking in some illicit rendezvous, excitedly met up with other zombie eyed, mum friends to scoff pizza and drink wine. We even played two rounds of taboo.
Yes, MTV music awards with la Swift and her ‘squad’ it was not. Fangirling over Bon Jovi and sharing parenting fails while dressed in our comfy (possibly stained) tracksuit bottoms, I’m certain we fell short of every squad goal out there. It was, however, pretty awesome. Our squad may have lacked coolness, swag and sass but it certainly met all of my squad goals. Who needs a posse of scantily clad supermodels and singers when you belong to a squad of funny, witty, intelligent Amazonian women who have your back?
In my squad if there’s any pouting to be done, it’s done by the two year old, because in my squad there are only real, kick ass heroines.
Heroines who juggle career, problems, fun and family as if evolution had finally caught up with women and given us six arms. They are the everyday heroines who are able to face the world with a smile and nurse a broken heart in dignified silence. Their tenacity and endurance is off the scale. Their sense of humour is wicked and their wit is razor sharp. Their hearts are soft and open and good.
Taylor Swift can keep Selina, because OMG, we’re so #squadgoals.
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