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Dancinmama!

It's really hard. I am part of another wonderful online group and we do try to get together a couple of times a year, either on a Saturday morning for coffee, or for a scrapbooking weekend, or what we call "Thanksgivingfest" which we do the Thursday before Thanksgiving every year. I also try to maintain my friendships with fellow school moms by going out once a month to a Girls' Night Out. I think that for the physical aspect of actually getting together with someone, you have to make the commitment, mark it in your calendar as if it were a work appointment, and stick to it. I rarely plan things spur of the moment...I give people plenty of advance notice. Like months in advance. You can't be all consumed with work and miss out on the important things in life. A friend of mine recently had a cancer scare (she's okay) but before we knew she'd be okay, nothing really seemed to matter. Nothing at all except the possibility that her three children might grow up without a mother. It really put things in perspective. I think the key is to make the commitment and don't let anything else get in the way. Make sense?

Hi, dancinmama - I know I am a bit biased since, well, I run Work It, Mom! but I can relate to what you're saying. Self employed work never does stop and time is precious -- I hate realizing that there is a friend I've not seen in months or even talked to.

The way I handle being connected online - here and a few other places - is by setting times during the day to do it. I am also working on doing this with my email - limiting the number of times a day that I check it instead of doing it too frequently.