I have a couple, but its hard finding working mom friends and its very hard to connect with SAHMs on a level that allows us to be very close.
I still think its worth it to continue the search lol.
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@DillonLion: I'm a SAHM and I have several WOHM friends. Not just my childhood friends but moms that I met while they were on maternity leave or that have one day off every other week. Several of my WOHM friends are teachers/professors that have holidays off or summers off so we have a summer picnic group during their break
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I only have friends with kids...not parents who became friends.
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@sandy: im not closed off to it! It is just hard to us to have common ground besides motherhood / time in our schedules. I have zero breaks during the year
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Not really
I can never make playdates or fun " mom & me" events because they're held on a weekday a 10am...
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@autumnlove: yeah thats the other problem. None of my friends have had kids yet
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Yes but I'm a teacher, so my job maybe has a greater density of mothers? I also have a "mom" friend who lives down the street (who I only got to know because we had babies close together).
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I have an awesome core group of 9 ladies that are local. And 7 are Moms.
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@DillonLion: it's so tough! I was so sad when my mom soulmate went back to work. We just fit in a lunch date once a month or even a super early breakfast date sometimes
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Not really, no. I have two work friends who are moms, but they aren't my friends outside of work life. One in particular is my work BFF because we really bonded over overlapping pregnancies. We occasionally text in the evenings or on the weekends as she called me for advice on her maternity leave. But we have never hung out or had a play date.
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All of my friends who are mothers live too far for play dates and meetups. I'm working on finding more Mom friends who WOHM. I joined a listserv and although there are Moms who work full time on it, we never participate. It's usually the SAHM or WAHM Moms who post about play dates at their homes and most of their meet ups are mid-day. I keep telling myself to unsubscribe. It's hard because we're so busy out of the home and the weekends can be sacred at times.
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I do! My local mothers' clubs (both where I lived when I had LO and where I live now) are mainly made up of WOHMs. We have monthly play dates on Saturday mornings and every two or three months we have family pot lucks since a lot of us don't like leaving SOs on the weekend. I've also become much closer to the other mothers at work.
All my friends that became moms are SAHMs. Most are great. Some talk crap about me behind my back for working. I don't really care but it makes me less likely to be open with them.
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I'm working on it.
I've been lucky to meet some wonderful neighbors who are all working moms, too. I'm not into having lots of close friends so jhaving friends I can count on if I need something or want a glass of wine are perfect and they're that type of friend.
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Not really
I have literally one mom friend in my area. There are zero working moms on my street, and I only see one daycare mom at pickup regularly (I'm working up the nerve to 'ask her out' ;)). All of my other friends don't have kids! Stinks, honestly. I'd love to have some people to hang out with or just talk to.
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Yes, but only because they were my friends before we were pregnant, and our kids are about the same age.
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Nope! Not local, anyhow. I agree-stinks! Wish there were WOHM groups on Saturday mornings or something.
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We have a bunch of neighbors with kids. My BFF from college lives down the street. She has town girls but they are in elementary school and she is very busy with them. So, long answer short, I kinda have mommy friends.
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Yes but they all came from my bible study. I didn't find them looking for mom friends and even then it is only a subset of those that are moms.
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I met a lot of women before going back to work at 5.5 months. I am lucky to live in a densely populated area (well, lucky in terms of population--not so much in terms of living space!), and I met a ton of mom friends while I was home with J. I have both WOHM and SAHM friends. Very, very grateful for the parenting community I have here.
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You mean other than you guys?!
Honestly, not many. One who (thank goodness!) lives in our neighborhood but outside of them only people we were friends with before having J, who now have kids, but nobody that I've met and am like "hey! friend who is working and a mommy too!" Sucks.
Same as @rachiecakes: it's impossible to get involved in groups.
@swurlygurl and I have talked about setting up a WOHM playdate group...sounds like a lot of work though
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@bisous: I've thought about starting something like that!
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Nope, not really. At least not any with kids that are remotely close in age to ours.
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Nope. It's not that I don't have time, I just don't know how to meet people anymore. I had a group of friends (couples) I was getting close with at our old church, and many of them were starting to have kids. But those friendships never quite flourished. We're in a new church and haven't really met other parents yet, I hope we will though.
None of my coworkers have young children either. They are either young (early 20's/single) or much older with children already grown.
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A couple really close ones (one WOHM and one WAHM) and a few others I chat with when I see them in the neighborhood or at classes/bigger play dates, and want to become closer to. I met my best mom friends when I was on maternity leave, and hang out with each of them regularly now.
I can never make playdates or fun " mom & me" events because they're held on a weekday a 10am...
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