On Starting a Blog ... and joining a playgroup

As if I have time to be writing . . . I thought staying home with my kids, and giving up (for the most part), my legal career, would afford me some time to do all of those things I have been putting off for the last ten years . . . like putting my pictures in scrapbooks and organizing our closets. Oh well . . .

But one thing I have realized since I have stopped going into an office every day is that I have no idea how to be a stay at home mom. So many thoughts pop into my mind for a book for women (or men, for that matter) who give up careers to stay at home, that I decided to start writing them down.

So here goes . . .

Why the title, "Confessions of a Play Group Novice?" Because I joined my first play group this year - following the birth of my third child, and I realized I had no idea what I was supposed to do. What do we talk about? What do we do? Do I serve anything to eat or drink? What if no one shows up? For ten years, since the birth of my first child, I've been hearing about play groups.

"oh, she's in my play group" "my play group is going there" "they've been friends since play group" "I'm in three playgroups"

What the heck have I been missing? You see, since I worked full time until the birth of my third child, I never had the time or, really, the opportunity, to be in a play group. So when our church Mothers of Young Children group had Play Group sign-ups, I was right there in line . . . ready to learn about this mysterious thing called a play group. Thus, the name of the blog . . . stay tuned for my adventures, so to speak, as a play group novice.