My New Moms Playgroup

Four of the eight mom's from Talan's group speech therapy class got together today. I organized it making laborious phone calls trying to get them all together. I have assembled an email list fo future use which will hugely facilitate communication. It is so old school to actually call people. :) This group of moms has met once before, again at my initiation. I am just so happy to have found mom's with two year olds so that Talan can have a group of little buddies. It is a really nice group of women and I am ready to put the effort in because I really think these are women I could be real friends with long term. We met at Blue Grass park which has a "dry" park and a water park. Lots of fun for everyone. We brought our neighbor Terran with us and that was a good choice. We were there about 2.5 hours and really enjoyed ourselves.
We came home and napped and then headed back out to a summer party put on by the Infant Toddler program. We saw two moms from our speech therapy group there and hung out with them. It was a nice low key evening. We ate hamburgers, chips and Otter Pops. Someone had baked cupcakes in ice cream cones and then frosted them and sprinkled colored sprinkles on top. They were a huge hit. I loved the idea. The kids thought they were going to be eating ice cream and it was so little mess. I might try this for Mason's birthday party.
A totally great day. All about the kids (mostly) and yet I got great quality mom friend time. I like that kind of balance. Oh, and we spent half an hour when we got home catching crickets. I am getting really good at it. :) Mason, thankfully, while abusive to them at least is not killing them which truly appreciate.
Tomorrow we have a birthday party for our friends Alyssa and Kellen both of whom are turning 6. That should be fun for the kids and hopefully I will get some mom friend time. Saturday I have the second part of my parenting class, Love and Logic. Then Sunday Joe will be home although it might be midnight before he walks in the door but hey, its gone by rather quickly.