The formation of friendships in a new town is not an easy thing, especially when working from home and being a mother who is married to two years under 2.
But when I sent my children to daytime careI found some friends along the way who became like a family.
Find joint links with strangers
The paths crossed with many faces themselves while Low day care and receipt every day. I have learned that the dearest of these accurate conversations when examining our children inside and outside, seizing car seats, and watching teachers take out their gentle small fingers and technical projects to take them home. These moments have created a bond between us, although we are mainly strangers.
Day sponsorship had an internal play space called TreeHouse, with post -Hours of Parents and their children. I created the perfect opportunity for Meet other mothers While helping my children (then ages 1 and 3) to develop their social skills.
Our favorite nights were. The topic was “working abroad”, and $ 5 for each child covering two hours to supervise children’s playing at The TreeHouse, while mothers got a full body exercise.
It became a weekly tradition of my upscales and my front, Merridith and Christine, whose children were of the same ages as Li.
This was The beginning of new friendships For me and what has now become lifetime friendships for my children. My children do not remember a time when friends were not friends with other Treehouse children.
Exchanging good, bad and madness from motherhood and more
When the Treehouse ended after working hours, our trio continued our tradition on Tuesday, and hosted it in each other’s homes.
That Tuesday developed at lunch times, garden trips, and weekend play dates, Christmas celebrationsThree -directional text. We have often met, with without our children.
Meridith surprised our children with an interview in Dollewood on one of the summer days and again in six flags after several years. We have a long -term tradition to go to the river tubes every summer before the start of the new school year. We gave Christine to shower a baby and a meal train to welcome her second daughter. It goes to help when I need help in school transport. And since the birth of our older children separates only three days, we are planning their parties around each other.
Kristen watches my home when I am outside the city, feeds my pets, and gives me a sound. I have lived in our town for a long time than I know and know everyone and everything that happens, and for this reason she is the first person to go when I have questions. It was a voice for me more times than I can rely on.
The more time we spent together, it is easier for me to coincide with other mothers. Lauren, Aundrea and Quintina are familiar faces at birthday parties, garden dates and play dates.
Our children have formed inseparable links because they see each other often inside and outside day care. Although they have formed new friendships over the years, they are still the closest to those who are in pre -school days.
The family is also the people you choose
The text interconnection index has now become an eight -people cooperation, and it grows longer. I think I almost did not choose day care.
We have been removed long ago on Tuesday, TreeHouse, day care, and life is occupied for all of us. Most of our children play sports or take some kind of lessons. One of our friends moved a few hours. Another passes through cancer.
But the distance, timelines, and unexpected surprises of life cannot divide us. We are still deceived or taught us together, do the craftsman, and we celebrate birthdays (and we know when the birthday of each child will come), we discuss schools and sports, and plan.
We gathered our children, but we chose to become friends. Now, after more than eight years, we continue to choose friendship despite the different ways we have traveled. We may go longer between visits or texts, but we always know where we go when one of us needs help, advice, answer or just a friend.
