Breaking News: Ballerina Farm had her Baby and Other Things You Don't Need to Know

But now you will definitely go down this rabbit hole before bed

I often wonder how I would cover influencers if I were making an influencer celebrity magazine, like People or US Weekly, but make it influencers. It isn’t the craziest idea in the world. I mean, I once worked for a magazine publisher who had the idea to “copy People magazine, but make it about old people.” This is something that was actually created. It is still on newsstands today.

So if I were in charge of Influencer Weekly the big news today (because you have to update Influencer Weekly constantly) would be that Ballerina Farm just gave birth to her eighth child. If you need a catch up on all things Ballerina:

But alas, there is no magazine covering influencers, so I found out about Ballerina Farm giving birth via text from my friend Sara Petersen (who writes

In Pursuit of Clean Countertops

). Yes, we can absolutely pause for a second to consider the fact that two grown women are texting one another about a complete stranger who doesn’t know they are alive. Yet, this is what people do with celebrities and with 8 million followers I would say that Ballerina Farm counts as a celeb. I also realize that even writing about this “news” is in complete contrast to the newsletter I sent out this morning about detoxing from social media. But two things can be true. You can want a break and you can want to know whether she ended up giving birth to this eighth baby in her CAR!

Sara is something of a Ballerina Farm expert. Her deep dives into the twirling homesteader give me life. Definitely check out our conversation where she breaks it all down for me.

Finally! An Episode About Ballerina Farm

So Sara texted me this while I was making tater tots for my children for dinner from scratch (kidding….they came in a bag).

And I was confused for about two seconds and then I got it. Hannah’s mom shared the birth news…because there is no way this wasn’t being released to the world as it was happening…..from the highway.

Here’s the play by play.