One of the greatest things to have happened to me over the past couple of years of not working, is the friendships I have; some new friends, some old friends, and some are casual acquaintances that have deepened into real friends.
The beauty of being off work is of course, the freedom and lack of constraints on time. Many of my friends have children, and are either on maternity leave, or work part time.
I used to meet up with a group who actually all knew each other from work at the primary school, but were all on maternity leave at the same time. We used to meet at the local Wacky Warehouse, we would clamber about on the soft play with our children for an hour, and then brightly announce "snack time" and while the children would have juice and biscuits, we would gratefully sink into the oversized chairs, with a cuppa and any news or gossip we could share. Affectionately known as "tot-time". Mainly because I took Dib-dab and had Kipper of known where we went every week, there would have been ructions to say the least!
There is even a chat on Facebook, where only we could see it, and we would arrange times to meet, and who was going etc. From a simple once a week playtime for the children, this has become a real mainstay for me. There are 7 or 8 of us who meet regularly with our children, and they range from Kipper who is nearly 7 to two 6-month old babies.
It has of course developed outside the Wacky! and the chat on Facebook goes on, there is yards and yards of it if you trawl back far enough. We have had days out with children, we have had nights out without children but with wine! Hopefully if the summer ever arrives, we will have a BBQ here with children, partners or husbands, and of course all our Wacky Women! We might even get t-shirts printed - Wacky Women on Tour!
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