in the club

Well, after two years of searching here, there, and everywhere for other moms who stay home with their kids (all of my friends with kids work or live far away), I've decided to join the local MOMS club (it's a national organization and they capitalize 'MOMS'...not sure if it's an acronym or what, but I'll copy off of them). I'm not much for clubs, but in order to be included in the activities you have to join, so I decided to give it a try for the year and see if I liked it. I actually looked into it a long time ago, but they couldn't figure out what group I fit in because of where my neighborhood is located (I'm kind of in between suburbs), but since it was such a struggle I gave up. I finally decided it was time to persevere and figure it out so I tried again.



A month or so ago we went to a 'meet and greet' playdate at a local park. I met a woman from my neighborhood and found out the new president lives across the street from me! Who knew...they've lived across the street from us for two years and I didn't even know she stayed home with her kids! That's what happens when everyone spends all of their times playing in their back yards with tall fences. You don't get to know the neighbors very well. Anyway, right after that we went on vacation, so I didn't join until after we got back. So today I went to my first official activity, which was a potluck picnic lunch at the house across the street. They have a great clubhouse/swingset which my little one loved, but the hit for her was the portable Little Tikes bounce house! There were only a few moms and kids there, but that made it better for me to get to know people. I met someone else from our neighborhood (who knew there were several stay at home moms in the neighborhood!?) and a few others who don't live too far away.



We'll see how things progress. It takes me a long time to get to know people, but I'll never get started unless I try it.