This week’s challenge is to organize a Mom’s night Out with some girlfriends. Go somewhere you used to enjoy in your old life. book the time on your calendar and try to make it a recurring event (like every third Thursday or second Tuesday) so you and your pals (and all your respective partners) can plan for it.
Whitney and I like to schedule these MNO dates early enough in the evening that mom totally gets out of the witching hour and dinner-bedtime combo, but you might need to ease into that. sometimes a night out doesn’t really mean a night off.
Wondering what to do with yourself?
Ladies game night. find a pub that serves up Scrabble or Boggle with the beer and meet your friends. My pal Eva organizes a monthly game night and brings her own games.
Book club. I’m a book club junkie, having been in four so far — and one for more than ten years. When I was in a new mommy book club, reading was optional and chatting and dessert were mandatory.
Just dinner and drinks. If the point is to reconnect with your friends, no need to dress it up with gimmicks, just go find a restaurant that will let you sit and chat for two hours.
In addition to the relief of letting down your hair (without someone pulling it) and putting on a pretty top (without someone spitting up on it), getting out with your girlfriends is a wonderful way to remember who you really are apart from someone’s MOMMY.
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