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 friend 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.
Did you complete this challenge? Love it or hate it, tell us how it went:
- Comment below and spill the details.
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- Name your destination on Twitter or Instagram and use hashtag #rookiemoms.
- Or, link in the comments to your own blog post about this challenge.
Two years ago, I had missed SO MANY moms nights out because my husband travels for work that I decided to host a weekly moms’ night in.
Every Wednesday for almost two years, a group of friends meet at my house for dessert, drinks, and talking. We’ve gone through job losses, new babies, new jobs, new homes, surgeries, illnesses, and everything under the sun.
This is a post from a long time ago:
http://jonandlaura.blogspot.com/2009/11/to-mountains.html
It’s also budget friendly!
I desperately need to do this challenge again. I will post after I do it. For now, here is why I need to go. I could have written this today, I feel it so very often and it is exactly why we all need to get out more.
http://www.themommytherapy.com/2010/09/good-luck-honeyi-guess-ill-wait-here.html
This is one thing my group of friends does very well! We have a “book club” that we meet with every Monday morning that a local church gives us free childcare for- we call it our “therapy” group. But from this group we plan all sorts of mommy nights out. Monthly we meet up at a wine bar, & then we also have screening parties for the Bachelor, go to movies, dinner or dessert, etc. We usually like to meet up around 8- so after dinner & bedtime- it makes it more likely that our hubbies will be on board for us to get together all the time.
Maybe the challenge is a bit old at this point, but I still love it. I’m trying to send a few readers
via my post here
I’m a book club junkie. I have been one or two. but i am a single mom. It’s not easy for me go out everywhile. I do go out once in a while when my give me some breaks from parenting…ah sigh single mom’s life 🙁