What if you threw a contest and no one came?! Last night I was all nervous, full of stage fright, alternately fearful that no one will come to my contest and/or they will think my site is boring since I’ve been on a blogging hiatus and haven’t posted in weeks! I was stressing over what to write and how to make it witty and all that but then the baby woke up 400 times and frankly I don’t remember any of my good ideas today. Sigh.
So! Check out Swistle’s run down of how to play if you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about. If you do, here are some questions that I have been thinking about. Leave an answer (to ANY question, or to all) and consider yourself entered. I have houseguests coming for the weekend so I won’t choose a winner until Monday. Sorry for the suspense.
Questions:
1. Lets say you moved to a new city, have a husband who works a lot and a new baby. How would you go about making friends? What if you were shy?
2. Would you rather the kid slept better during the day (thus allowing you free time to do things like, oh I don’t know, blog) or slept better at night which allowed you to you know, sleep?
3. If you live far away from friends, how do you keep up with them all and stay part of their lives?
4. How often do you go through your closet to see what needs to be given away? At what point to do you say “I’m really not going to fit into that again/wear it again/it was a bad buy from the beginning.”
5. Do you use Peapod for your groceries? Do you like it? How are the vegetables/produce?
So! Check out Swistle’s run down of how to play if you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about. If you do, here are some questions that I have been thinking about. Leave an answer (to ANY question, or to all) and consider yourself entered. I have houseguests coming for the weekend so I won’t choose a winner until Monday. Sorry for the suspense.
Questions:
1. Lets say you moved to a new city, have a husband who works a lot and a new baby. How would you go about making friends? What if you were shy?
2. Would you rather the kid slept better during the day (thus allowing you free time to do things like, oh I don’t know, blog) or slept better at night which allowed you to you know, sleep?
3. If you live far away from friends, how do you keep up with them all and stay part of their lives?
4. How often do you go through your closet to see what needs to be given away? At what point to do you say “I’m really not going to fit into that again/wear it again/it was a bad buy from the beginning.”
5. Do you use Peapod for your groceries? Do you like it? How are the vegetables/produce?
Happy contesting!
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1. Been there totally...the Mommy and Me groups and the Lactation Support group was where I made the most friends. I was shy, so I would just stand by the chatty ones and they would inevitably invite me to come with them to a park etc. It gets easier.
2. Sleep during the night.
3. Facebook and Email work the best. I try to call the regulars once a month and arrange get togethers. It's hard if they don't keep up on their end.
4. Not often enough. I have several levels of clothes...I could shrink back into that, really.
5. I used Home Grocer years ago and always found the produce excellent. My neighbour uses Safeway delivery now, and loves it.
I've made friends by meeting other moms at the playground, mom's clubs, and various internet groups.
SLEEPING THROUGH THE NIGHT cannot be overestimated.
Skipping three and four ...
I don't get home delivery service for groceries for I am loathe to let someone else choose my meat and produce products. But I love the IDEA of such a service, oh yes, I do.
one more thing (not to be confused with my entry above, because that would be WRONG ;) )
There are several cool bloggers in Chicago. Kristabella doesn't have a husband or kids, but she's funny and very nice (fullofsnark.com) and Rachel at Mimsies (http://mimsies.wordpress.com/)just moved to Chicago and also has a new(ish) baby.
I've (ahem) cyberstalked some people, met up with them, and became friends. So if you can get over that initial hesitation, comment on their blogs or email them and see if you can make friends.
Oh my goodness I was so afraid no one would enter my contest either! I am also a pretend anti-social hermit so these questions are hard.
1. If I were a nursing mom I'd try La Leche League, otherwise maybe a knitting/crafty/cooking group or class.
2. As much as I begged for my babies to Just Sleep At Night For Goodness Sake! I really was much more crushed when they wouldn't take a nap during the day.
3. I like Facebook
4. I really need to do this
5. I just slug 60 pounds of children in the cart, I is a cave woman...
1) Maybe contact your community center and sign yourself up for a family friendly fun activity where you can meet local parents (?)
2)The night...you can get blogging done just after they are asleep PLUS get some good sleep in yourself..it's a win-win :)
3)Facebook.The.End
4)I should do this more often, but about once every five years!
5)Nope, I don't even know what this is and am fighting the urge to google it!! I do the good old fashioned trips to Cub :)
Peapod? You have that where you live? I'm so jealous. I used to use it and liked it a lot and it went away. I don't think we have any services similar around here anymore.
Baby should sleep at night. During the day mine were happier to lay down somewhere and watch me do stuff while I talked to them. I never could get them to lay down and watch me sleep though.
Thats hard. And I am shy. I'd probably start at a church/mom and me class.
night
blog
my closet, have you seen my closet, did you perhaps ask this because you've seen my closet? are you hinting cause this so sounds like a hint.
okay, totally don't know what peapod is lol
Quick answers:
1. Like a gymboree or we do Little Gym.
2. Can I choose both? I like a well balanced 1.5 - 3 hour nap and at least 11 hours of sleep at night. Don't get anything like that, but nice to dream.
3. Blogs and phone calls.
4. Closet? When I move....or when I can't hang something new up. Or when I can't stand remembering that at one point I was a MUCH smaller size.
5. I don't know what Peapod is, but I have used Safeway's grocery store delivery when I had a newborn. It was wonderful!
1. Ack! This is kind of my real life. We just moved and I don't know how to make friends. Because I am shy. . . at least I am at work so I am meeting people here.
2. Night.
3. Email
4. Not often enough. Not nearly enough.
5. No. We don't have that here :(
People came. :)
1. Neighbors. Especially those with kids the same age as yours, or in your case, a baby. I'm not only shy, I SUCK at small talk in a major way, so I'm not good at this AT ALL, therefore I do not know of which I speak.
2. Night. I need my sleep.
3. Email or I don't. Because I suck like that.
4. No set schedule. I need to do it now. I do my kids' twice a year.
5. I'm not familiar with Peapod. Sorry.
3. That's what I created the my blog for. So I don't have call 17 people a week to keep in touch with them! If anything, my mom doesn't call as much during the week and that's worth doing the work of the blog. I don't think I can handle her on a daily basis.
1) I sign my kid up for classes and more classes and sit in the local Starbucks from 9-10am. Eventually, someone will take pity on your. And fingers crossed you live in a friendly neighborhood -- spend lots of time outside and at the park!
2) NIGHT! I don't do well on little sleep.
3) I don't do as good a job as I should, but blogging and emails help. And regular photo exchanges.
4) Not nearly often enough. Less than once a year, and I REALLY need to do it right about now. Three years is the MINIMUM before I'm ready to give up on an outfit.
5) Nope, I'm a freak and I love to grocery shop. I'm at the grocery store myself!
1. I usually make friends at church. Also, just being outside a lot helps to meet your neighbors- walks, the park, sitting on the porch around 5ish when people are coming home from work! Good luck!
2. Night.
3. The internet for sure. Facebook, blogs, emails, chatting. A text message every now and then. Then, of course, phone calls when you really need to connect.
4. I forgot what this question was.
5. I'm not familiar with Peapod.
Oh, those are so many questions.
1- I make friends through church. But you can also go to an exercise/music/mommy and me class and meet people.
2-Oh, sleep at night, baby.
3-I email, and the ones that are close we invite over. Phone calls are also great.
4-My son just had a fund raising garage sale, so I got rid of some of the stuff in the closet, but not enough.
5- and I don't even know what that is.
1. I used meetup.com to find a play group in my town. Otherwise, I'd have NO interaction with people during the day.
2. Night. Definitely.
3. Blog, phone, flickr.
4. Once a year, or so. If I haven't worn the item in the last year, out it goes.
My kids were/are both terrible nappers, but sleep all night every night (even through barfing - amazing, yet gross), so I'm a sleep well at night kind of girl.
And I go through my closet every 6 months-ish. If I haven't worn it in a season, it's gone. No regrets.
I don't even know what Peapod is. But I'll be googling it in just a minute!
Um I think you only said one question, so try a meetup group in your area.
I go through my stuff maybe once a year. It always pains me to throw stuff away, but then I get into it and it feels so good.
1. I tried talking to gymnasitcs moms and it blew up in my face. I do not stay home with my kids though, so I get my social needs out at work.
2. Totally sleep during the night.
3. Email mostly, and making sure to attend kid's birthday parties etc allowing us to catch up in person at least 4 times per year.
4. Usually at season change. I get tired of my clothes VERY quickly.
5. None of that online grocery stuff is available here.
I had to go look up what Peapod was, so I am guessing I don't use it. As for the moving to a new city stuff, I am jealous because there are so many opporunities with mommy & me classes or your local community center. Just go to a class and start talking to someone. I used to be really shy and just told myself to "get over it" and made friends that way. Think about it, you are a nice person with a cute kid. Who wouldn't want to talk to you?
That's a lot of questions. By the time I scrolled down to comment, I forgot all of them already. Except for the peapod one, mostly because I have no idea what you are talking about and confusion tends to linger longer than coherant thought for me.
Going to the park might be a good place to start and possibly find play groups.
Night sleep is way more important
Instant messaging and emails work best for me when trying to keep in touch.
Clean out the closet? People do that?
And again, what the heck is this peapod thing?
Are you KIDDING about the sleep? Totally NIGHT! AHH!
I live far from TONS of my friends. Email and texting are key. Or gchat if you are on your computer a lot during the day.
I would go to the park, and I would sign up for some sort of baby class. Signing perhaps, or kindermusic, or baby gymboree, or something like htat.
You pretend you're not shy and make friends. Cause if everyone stays shy, then nobody will ever make friends.
I totally use my kids to make friends. It helped that my first born is a social butterfly from birth.
to answer #4... i do it twice a year... september and june
i wish to god my kid would sleep good allllll night! :)
1. Church, taking walks, looking open at the park (not reading, just looking around smiling and stuff)
2. night, I guess. I miss sleep when I don't get it, so during the baby's nap, I'd just nap too, and then resent it when he woke up too early.
3. blogging
4. about twice a year
5. I just go to the boring old store.
1. join a church
2. night
3. blog!
4. nearly every season... I don't like clutter!
5. YES! LOVE peapod. It has changed my life.
1) I am very shy but most people have no idea. I think most people are shy and so I just force myself to go out and also to introduce myself. Try to find a playgroup or just go to the local park. Good luck!!!
I go through my closet every 6 months and give it away if I haven't worn it in the past year.
1. I've had the same problem ever since we moved to Kansas City. I met people from the blahgs and it's been a little bit better.
2. Sleep during the day.
3. Not good at it myself.
4. I almost never buy new clothes, therefore I can almost never get rid of old ones.
5. I'm so jealous you can even consider Peapod.
I go through my closet once a year. If I haven't worn it, it's gone!
Yikes! The pressure!
1- a local park?
2- night, definitely!
3- e-mail and I prefer MySpace.
4- not nearly often enough!
5- nope.
1. I go to baby group type things in my city. Oh, and I love my La Leche League group.
2. Either, really. My 1 year old currently only naps if I hold him (so I cannot get much done) and wakes me hourly at night (so there is no sleep). Sigh.
3. E-mail and my blog.
4. I am terrible about that. All my clothes are old and yucky and yet I cannot part with them.
5. What's Peapod (off to google . . .)
Questions:
1. go to the library or find a mom's group
2. oh night...i'm such a crabby pants if I don't get my eight hours!
3. phone/blogs
4. forever...i'm so bad about getting rid of stuff!!
5. What is Peapod?
Sleep at night.
I have some new people recently by joining the jazzercise class. Look for an adult school fun type class and join - it's inexpensive and you're bound to meet someone with a shared interest :)
1. Look online for a local playgroup. I had luck when my girls were younger, on yahoo groups.
2. At night, my kids gave me problems both day & night. I need my sleep at night though!
3. Email, blog, make a private yahoo group for your friends or another site similar.
4. I usually go through my closet every season. I have a hard time getting rid of clothes though.
5. I've never used peapod. I think I registered with them though.
1. Church or going to the library or hanging around on the porch of my house or going to the beach or something.
2. Definitely during the night! And I've been lucky with that so far.
3. Yeah, Facebook and e-mail and feeling guilty.
4. I don't feel like I have many clothes, but I do have a lot I don't wear, but getting rid of them is scary because then I might not have enough... Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me, either.
5. I don't know anyone who uses Peapod.
Safeway / Vons kicks the grocery delivering butt. The produce is always better than in the actual store. The expiration dates are always way out and they have a great line of organics.
I love peapod for the most part -- I'd say 90-95% great with produce.
I don't go through my closet nearly often enough. I need to do it more often (I need to do it today!), but it doesn't seem like a priority for me.
1. Church is a great place to meet new people. Join a mom's group, volunteer in the nursery, or join a small group. I'm not shy and can't pretend to be, so that's tough to say.
2. Sleep at night please. I love naptime and I have a great sleeper, but I would rather have my sleep at night.
3. E-mail, letting them read my blog, occasional phone calls or visits, and I love writing letters.
4. Anything that is worn-out, stained, torn, etc. can go. Anything that I haven't worn in over a year and I can't see wearing anytime soon can go. If it's more than 2 sizes off from my current size, it can go.
5. Don't have that here.
Well, I walk into my closet every day, and I sorta assess the mess. But I would say once every other month, I really pull stuff out that I finally realize I will never fit in again, or that is worn out. Also, a good gauge is when my husband goes, 'That looks like you bought it at Walmart'. Then it goes in the 'donate' pile.
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