SAHM's Unite!

Now that I am lucky enough to stay at home with my sweet girl all day long, (Thanks Babe!) I have to find stuff to do to stay busy. Well, of course cleaning every day and cooking 5 course meals every night keep me on my toes ;) Jocelyn needed to get out and make some friends, (as do I) since I pretty much don't know anyone.


(By the way, SAHM= Stay at Home Mom)


In Florida, I kept saying I was going to go join clubs and take Jo to the park and sew dresses and paint pictures and all that jazz, but other stuff always got in the way. Like, work, even though it was only part-time. I finally went to my first MOPS meeting (Mother of Pre-Schoolers, FYI) the we found out we were moving.


Fast Forward a month. I decided that if I was going to change my ways, it needed to start right away. Luckily, I found 2 great groups to go to. First was MOPS. It meets every other Wednesday for 2 hours. That means two glorious hours that I get to talk to other moms while Jocelyn goes into the daycare area! The first meeting I met some really nice girls. One was actually from Florida too. Believe it or not, I have met a lot of people from some part of Florida, small world! MOPS is religious based group that meets in a church.

Then, there is another group I found through meetup.com They meet different days during the week and do all kinds of different activities. So far, I have met up with them to do a playtime at the mall, and I actually didn't enter into ANY store while I was there. That has to be some kind of record for me! We went to the zoo, walked a few miles on the river and this morning we met at a park by my house.


Jocelyn is having a great time learning to play with other kids her age. I am not only making new friends and meeting people that have all kinds of thing in common with the Mister and myself, but I am also learning how to let Jo do things by herself rather than  being right behind her and holding her hand for every move she makes. She has to learn to do this stuff sooner or later and I can't  keep her wrapped in bubble wrap forever. 


The girl I rent my house from is actually in this playgroup too. That makes it really easy for all the complaints we have! Ha ha! Just kidding, we LOVE this house and neighborhood. 


Having playgroups to go to really makes the day go by faster for us and it makes me use Jocelyn's nap times for being productive (like writing this blog and checking Facebook) and getting stuff done around the house!


Speaking of naptime. I have been extremely lucky. Jo is waking up around 8:30, taking an hour nap at 10, a 2 hour nap at 3 and going to bed by 9. Is that awesome or what?

Unfortunately, now that we are doing things at different times during the day, I am hoping to consolidate those naps to 1 hopefully 3 hour nap. We'll see how that works. If it doesn't, I have no problem with 2!