I found a meetup group for Working Moms in Northern Virginia. There's an active message board, and lots of events as well, so there's lots of mingling before, during and after events. Take a look at meetup.com - there are tons of similar groups all around.

I am sorry to hear that you have all had a bad experience with Vienna Moms events. The monthly meeting have been moved from someone's house (from two years ago) to parks and the community center. Parks do make it difficult at times to meet and greet everyone. I make an extra effort to greet everyone and send out information on a regular basis - however, I also have to watch my own children. It is difficult. Usually there are several host moms (Board members and members of the host playgroup) there to help host. However, this past weekend it was just myself and one other mom serving as host because of busy weekend schedules.

We work to welcome all new members with phone calls, emails and answer all questions. Again, I am very sorry that you have all had bad experience.

I went to a monthly meeting at someone's house when I first joined and swore I would never go to another event too....but have since gone to social events and monthly meetings and met some wonderful women.

Please let me know how I can help.
Sincerely,
Claire Walton
VMI President
cwalton7@gmail.com

pp again - and I am very social so for me it was even more awkward.

Anonymous wrote:I recently attended a playground with this organization. We showed to the park where the group was meeting, we were asked to get a name tag and then no one really interacted with us. i was really surprised that the person running the playground didn't make an effort to introduce herself, get to know us, etc.. Is this the norm for playgrounds? I know that I tend to be on the shy side but I was very surprised how cold the group dynamics seemed to be.

Agree 100% and I am a stay at home mom. I went to one meeting and it was at someones house and the old members were clicky and all of us new members were like WTF? No one greeted us and I couldnt even tell you whose house it was. I felt so awkward being there and have never gone to another meeting again. I do like the email alerts about things but I have no interest in going to another social setting for VMI.

I'm also a VMI member and a working mom. I attended the monthly meeting at the playground this weekend and I have to say it is more difficult to make sure that new people feel welcome in that setting because there are lots of other non-VMI peopel there too, so it gets confusing. There is a working moms subgroup of VMI and there are lots of events that are on the nights and weekends. I think it takes a few times at different events, or in a playgroup to get to know people. There are some fun subgroups such as the cooking club, book club, etc.

Ugh, this is a shame. I'm a VMI member and I'm sad to hear that moms didn't feel welcome at the meeting. I wasn't there but I certainly would have come over to say hi to a new member.

My advice is to contact the playgroup coordinator and get involved in a playgroup. While the group used to comprise mostly stay at home moms, there are a lot of PT and FT working moms, too. Lots of stuff happening at night and on weekends.

Also work full time and live in Vienna. Would be interested in getting together on weekends. HOw would we go about exchanging contact info on this board?

Anonymous wrote:Since Vienna didn't work out for me, I'm trying to find a group in Fairfax. DS is 20 m. o.

Try meetup.com - there a ton of moms groups in ffx - Fairfax Corner, Tysons Corner, etc.

Since Vienna didn't work out for me, I'm trying to find a group in Fairfax. DS is 20 m. o.

Anonymous wrote:How old are your kids? We moved to Vienna 2 years ago and I've met most of my friends through my children's preschool. I'm a member of VMI, but I'm not really active (I mostly just read the forums) and I've never been to one of their get-togethers I guess I won't be going now...

DD is 2 years and the other one is 6 months

How old are your kids? We moved to Vienna 2 years ago and I've met most of my friends through my children's preschool. I'm a member of VMI, but I'm not really active (I mostly just read the forums) and I've never been to one of their get-togethers I guess I won't be going now...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My experience was not that positive either. Seemed like an organization geared to stay-at-home moms (nothing wrong with that!), but I felt I didn't really fit in...

Do you know of another group that gets together? I work full time so it would have to be a group that gets together on the week-ends. We're new to the Vienna area and I would like to meet other parents.

I haven't found another group yet. I also work full time and most often end up getting together with colleagues from work with young kids...

Anonymous wrote:My experience was not that positive either. Seemed like an organization geared to stay-at-home moms (nothing wrong with that!), but I felt I didn't really fit in...

Do you know of another group that gets together? I work full time so it would have to be a group that gets together on the week-ends. We're new to the Vienna area and I would like to meet other parents.

My experience was not that positive either. Seemed like an organization geared to stay-at-home moms (nothing wrong with that!), but I felt I didn't really fit in...

I recently attended a playground with this organization. We showed to the park where the group was meeting, we were asked to get a name tag and then no one really interacted with us. i was really surprised that the person running the playground didn't make an effort to introduce herself, get to know us, etc.. Is this the norm for playgrounds? I know that I tend to be on the shy side but I was very surprised how cold the group dynamics seemed to be.