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Well, originally we were just three new mothers who met in a playgroup when our kids were pre-verbal and we thought we would go crazy sitting around the house all day.  However, now that we’ve weathered the storm of diaper changing, snack packing, toy recalls and all that other stuff that seems monumentally important at the time (but isn’t really) we are still friends and have something unique to say about ”the mommy scene.”

 What is the Mommy Scene?

If you’re a mother, we think you probably know what this is–even if you don’t know you know.  The Mommy Scene is all the stuff you have to negotiate and navigate with other mothers.  For instance, if you always have to initiate the playdate because your son’s friend’s mother “forgets”, must you host it too?  What is the right amount to spend on a three year old’s birthday gift?  Is it okay to discipline someone else’s child?  And on and on it goes.  For now, we’re blogging about Weird Things Moms Do because a) it’s funny and b) we can’t do everything at once.

But stay tuned . . more mom scene stuff is on the way.

Why are we qualified to be experts?

Well for one thing, we’re mothers.  For another, we’ve actually thought a LOT about this stuff.  Too much.  When our kids were young, we were constantly calling each other on the phone trying to find out the answers to our social dilemmas.  As if there was an answer!  We were all just making it up.  But then it dawned on us.  There should be a book.  Or at least a manual.  Or at least directions for this very large, unexpected part of parenting — getting along with Other Mothers and their kids!  So, we started collecting anecedotes and questions from other mothers about what they most wanted to know and informally polled all our friends and acquaintances about what they would do.  (Okay, not polled, but you know, talked to them about it every chance we got.  At the bowling party.  Near the swing set.  When we were supposed to be paying attention at the kiddy pool.)  And now, pretty much just by dint of the fact that we’ve done a ton of thinking and talking about this stuff, we’ve become experts.  It was sort of like in house lab work.

We hope you enjoy the blog and will send us lots of your weird stories and dilemmas.  We enjoy hearing them.  You can contact us at:

wendy@weirdthingsmomsdo.com
joanne@weirdthingsmomsdo.com
jen@weirdthingsmomsdo.com