how often do you hang out with other families

[Anonymous]

Well, the kids have playgroup twice a week, and I attend it once a week.

Usually we do something with another family Saturday or Sunday afternoon.

[Anonymous]

About once or twice a week, sometimes more. Most of our friends have young children so kids activities always abound. Plus, we bought a home with a pool so are doing a lot of hosting friends all of a sudden. Not sure why we are suddenly so popular..

[Anonymous]

I'm curious about how many of you are SAHMs vs WOHMs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious about how many of you are SAHMs vs WOHMs?

I'm a WOHM. We see other families about once a month. It's busy getting everything done on the weekend (house projects, errands, cooking, laundry etc). But we have fun at home just us so it doesn't feel like we are missing out.

[Anonymous]

Once every couple months or so.

[Anonymous]

Maybe once/month - sometimes more but not usually. Between birthday parties, soccer and swimming I like to keep our weekends with some down time to just hang as a family. We get together with our immediate family/kids cousins at least every week, though.

[Anonymous]

WOHM
Last week we did park and dinner with another family one night, a playdate, agrill and kiddie pool party, and met up with another family a the Y for pool time. That was a lot but usually we have at least one get together a week. I'm divorced and have my daughter 50% time, her other parent rarely does anything social and kid oriented so I feel like I need to do extra on my days, and I really like spending time with people.

[Anonymous]

Maybe once a month. Kids are the leer and socialize without us.

[Anonymous]

Wohp's. Gathering with neighborhood friends at least once a week in late afternoon or evening when weather is nice, and again generally at least one thing with friends on the weekend. We should do more house and yard work on weekends instead of always out and about, but, well...I think we all feel grumpier if we don't get in friend time!

[Anonymous]

When we had a neighbor who's son was friends with our daughter, the kids went back & forth several times a week - and parents sometime tagged along, sometimes not.

We've since moved and it's less frequent now, but still at least once a month. We were the first of our friends to have a baby, but now our circle seems to be in a baby boom, so many of our get togethers with friends include kids.

[Anonymous]

Rarely. A couple of times a year. DH works crazy hours and I WOTH. I'm a bit of an introvert so entertaining or going to someone's house would not be enjoyable. We enjoy our down time.

[Anonymous]

We are the same, PP. Very rarely and I'm a SAHM. We are friendly but we haven't clicked with the neighbors. Our block is mostly older residents and we do have office buildings so that may be one reason. Individually we all have friends but not family friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now that its pool season? Almost every day. When its cold out, 1-2x a week. We are very social.

We also attend synagogue every week and see friends there and host Shabbat lunch or eat by a friend weekly. There are also school/synagogue/neighborhood events all the time.

I'm this PP. I am a W(A/O)HM but I get off at 4. When the kids come home from school, we head to the pool. Since we are Sabbath-observant, socializing is easy bc we have a regular weekly gathering place at synagogue and we cant spend the day running errands anyway. We have 4 young kids, so Sundays are usually spent doing kid-focused activities and we always invite friends to come along.

I do the vast majority of my errands online or on my commute home the day I go into the office. I do laundry and chores after the kids go to sleep. 4-8pm and weekends are family/kid/friend time.

[Anonymous]

Once or twice a weekend. I don't do playgroups and very few playdates on the weekdays so usually we make plans with friends on the weekend. Last weekend we saw one family Saturday night for a BBQ, another Sunday afternoon for a winery trip. Occasionally we'll invite friends to come to our pool and order pizza for dinner in summer, have a cookout at our house, whatever.

[Anonymous]

Not often, maybe once every few months. DH and I are both introverts and enjoy just hanging out with our family. Still, I'd like to make it a more regular part of our life -- it's just hard to break out of the inertia of life.

When our kids were young I spent a lot of time with friends -- playgroups and other outings, but nearly always just moms/kids. I worked Saturdays which made Sunday our only family day so family time, not friend time was the priority. Now they are older and I'm working a regular M-F schedule. I still see a friend for lunch/coffee/walk/etc. about once a week but we don't spend much time with family friends.

Thinking about this is inspiring me to invite a couple neighbors over for Sunday.