Romanticizing the Double Stroller

A recent muse.

While it is easy to romanticize homemade bread and Jane Austen. It’s a completely unexpected manner to romanticize a double stroller.

When I had 2 kids back in 2022... I used to think I never had quiet moments and I took for granted the double stroller. What my old self didn’t understand is that stroller walks will one day be filled with chatter about flowers and birds and bicycles. Gone would be the days of plugging in a podcast and pushing merely... the stroller. Walks for us these days are typically older two kids on bikes or just walking and younger two are in the stroller. On days when I just want to do a quick walk, three of them go in the wagon and I wear my baby. However... there are those days. Very few and far in between when my husband has the 2 older kids away for something and I get to take just the toddler and the baby. Neither talk much on the walk. They merely explore with their eyes in this double stroller.

Let me tell you something about this specific double stroller. In the summer of 2025, I was pregnant with my 4th and I saw this mom... get into this super boujie coffee shop pushing this double stroller. I proceeded to hunt the mom and ask where she got it from. This stroller looked magical. It was narrow enough to fit into said coffee shops and cafe’s. I sort of gave up sitting in a coffee shop once i began having kids but this opened up a whole new world for me. I proceeded to track this stroller and add it to my registry.

I nearly cried tears of joy and maybe I did when the month before my baby was born, this stroller was presented to me as gift from a bunch of my friends. I don’t spend many quiet moments these days with the double stroller but the days I have... are memorable.

Last time ...a few weeks ago, my husband had the older two and I was left with my infant and 2 year old. We went on a long walk in the double stroller. My toddler had a snack and I had my drink (probably a coffee or Olipop) and there was no chattering. Just quiet while I pushed the stroller. We stopped and looked at leaves and flowers but for the most part, I plugged a podcast episode in and we just pushed and walked.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the exploration that happens with my older two children and I do enjoy our conversations in the outdoors. But there is something nostalgic and nice about pushing a double stroller luxuriously while sipping something and listening to a podcast or just walking in silence and listening to the trees. I actually have memories of doing that with my older two and I have a nice nostalgic but present feeling whenever I do a walk like that these days.

What are you romanticizing lately?

I’d love to read the comments.

Thanks for stopping by,

Mariam’s