BOOK CLUB - Or whatever it is you want to call it!

Tonight I have Book Club – we’ll that’s what we call it anyway.  Although I have a feeling we might need to do a re-branding exercise soon because a “Book” Club we are not.  Now I can just imagine the ladies out there must be fuming and silently cursing me for being about to reveal the inner secrets of what “book club” is actually all about.  While at the same time, I can imagine the guys who are reading this, are more than likely grinning smugly, thinking “I knew it!”  Sorry ladies, but I have to come clean as to what our “Book Club” is really all about.

Firstly, we are a group of ladies (obviously), who try and meet every 2^nd Thursday of the Month (this isn’t always possible, considering we are moms, wives, employees, business owners, private investigators, chefs, bottle washers etc….. but we try anyway) and we read books…. well that was the initial idea 2 yrs ago.  But at book club tonight we are ... wait for it… making Christmas Cards! 

Last month our “Book Club” went bowling and the month before that we made Gratitude Journals (oh and before that we painted pottery).  To be honest I don’t know when last I took a book out from Book Club, I don’t think our book club has ever discussed a book and yet once a month we meet at someone’s house, pay our money and attend, for all intents and purposes, “Book Club!” We have 2 big crates filled with books that I think by now have a very fine (or perhaps not so fine) layer of dust on them!

It just goes to show how desperate we as moms are to just get out and have a night off and hey if we must call it “book club”, then so be it!  So tonight our little group will meet. And we are a little group – our numbers have dwindled slowly but surely.  I’m starting to think that maybe it’s got something to do with the fact that our “Book Club” isn’t really a “Book Club” anymore, if you know what I mean!

But I’ve been having a fairly good week so far when it comes to ladies nights out!  On Tues night a group of 16 of us went out watch “Rocking around the World” at the Barnyard.  What fun!  We were an assortment of women; moms from the school, ex teachers of our children, friends of friends, basically a bunch of ladies (especially the moms in the group) who seldom get to go out, let down our hair and get to sing along to “Sweet Caroline” attempt to do that Greek dance thingy everyone does to Greek Music and clap along to an awesome fiddler as she played her Irish ditty faster and faster.  What an evening!

The Girls

Luckily we were seated on the terrace so we could get up and dance and boy did we dance!  I don’t think the terrace floor is ever going to be the same again and neither are my toes for the matter.  I had the Zumba Dancing Queen boogying next to me and while I started out the evening with all my metatarsal bones intact, I think 3 or 4 may have been fractured thanks to the Zumba Queen's killer heels.  No worries though, the evening was worth it and I’ll soon learn to balance using my remaining 7 functional toes!

Dancing Queens (Including the Zumba Queen and her Killer Heels!)

Our Favourite ex-Teacher - Teacher Courtney!

So, even though my little gathering tonight is technically meant to be “Book Club”, I’m pretty sure I’ll once again be going home with no books! What our “Book Club” really is, is a bunch of tired moms who get together once a month to sit, chat, have a moan, not have to cook (well except for the host), not have to tidy up (except for the host!!), not have to put kids to bed for the night, to just have one night where we have no-one else to worry about but OURSELVES! 

Now if we could just convince our husbands that Book Club was something we needed to do once a week… then we’d be in business and we might actually end up actually taking out a book or two!