Mom Time! Why And How To Spend Time With Your Mother Friends
Sometimes, that treadmill of parenting can be a little too much, and incredibly mind-numbing! While we need to prepare the kids’ meals, and keep on top of things like the housework, and go to that job that takes up 5 days a week, this means we have little time to spend with our friends and even littler time to spend with our fellow mothers. It’s great when fellow mothers meet up and vent, but naturally, there’s a lot of calendar juggling that needs doing. But are there ways for you to just spend time with your fellow parent friends, without the children, and also make it a good evening?
Invest in something together
Perhaps pre-paying for something helps you to stick to it. Going to a concert, or even joining a boating club where you can all go out on the boat with a few bottles of wine is a great way for you to get away from the mundanity of your parenting duties. If you invest in something and put money into it, it gives you a chance to be away from parenting, and if it’s something that you don’t normally do, you’ll enjoy it more! Make it different from what you normally do and you will get more out of it!
Put a date in the calendar
A calendar date is usually easy to weasel out of, and only in an emergency should you get out of it. The fact of the matter is that meeting up with your fellow mothers gives you a chance to vent, unwind, and have a few glasses of your favorite tipple, so why should you not go? Put a date on the calendar, and make it a semi-regular occasion like every couple of months. It’s something you should be looking forward to, and yes, while life is busy, and the children have recently been ill we can greatly underestimate how much a couple of hours away can do for us.
Have it over someone’s house
Make it a proper event where everybody comes to you, or you go to someone else’s place, have a few pizzas, and just let it all go. It’s incredibly stressful, and while you may spend the first hour or so talking about your own kids, everything soon melts away, and it’s not so stressful anymore. Spending time with your other parent friends is a difficult thing to do but you remember that when you’ve got friends that don’t have kids or don’t know what you’re going through this is the perfect opportunity for you all to talk about things like nipple pads or breastfeeding, and all of those things that your old friends do not have the time for, or even the comprehension! Getting a gathering together over somebody’s house so you can all unwind and be yourselves is essential.
Because we get caught in a routine we have got to find an outlet. This means that spending time with your other friends is the perfect chance to really let your hair down. Why should you put it off?
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