7-9
Okay, I guess I just don’t get it. Why is it that every MOPS-style [Mothers of Preschoolers] organization that I come into contact with thinks that 7-9 pm is the best time to have a required meeting?
I have an 8 month old and a 3 year old. Do you know what I’m doing between 7-9pm? Feeding them. Nursing them. Getting them ready for bed. Rocking them. Putting them down for bed. Let’s see … we start this process around 7, and it’s finished around 9.
Is it just us? If you have one of more kids under the age of 5, what are you doing between 7 and 9 pm?
Note: if the answer is supposed to be, “Oh, it’s only once a month, your husband is supposed to put them to bed while you’re at the meeting,” I guess we’ll have to figure out that whole male lactation thing that we read about on the Interweb …
*sigh*
I’m just a little frustrated.
Julia said,
February 1, 2007 @ 7:45 pm
You are not alone! I have a 3 year old and a 3 month old. My oldest has been going to be around 6:30-7:30 since I can remember. And I am nursing, and my son won’t take a bottle at night ( the last feed is always the longest most cuddlly). Plus my husband is in the Air Force and is gone for the next 6 months… I could pay a babysitter….YEAH RIGHT!
I am on our steering team for MOPS here in Abilene TX. We have MOPS meetings 2 mondays a month and our ST meets on those off mondays (we have some of our mopetts workers come and watch the kiddos)…
anyway - just wanted you to know YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!!!
- Julia
chachi said,
June 25, 2007 @ 11:48 am
Maybe it would be based on families where both parents HAVE to work. We see the same thing. Meetings are during work hours.