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September 9, 2008 by Angela Shupe | 0 Comments

The Barrie Examiner:

Stacie Miller’s cosy home can sometimes feel more like a prison to her. She’s desperate to get outdoors, but the thought of organizing an outing with two little ones often has her opting to stay confined to her living quarters.

“Taking two kids out of this house is a job in itself some days,” said the Barrie mom. “Packing up, going in the car, them maybe taking a tantrum — it’s just not worth it sometimes.”

Though she loves being a mother to her sons, who are almost three and seven, Miller felt as though she was losing herself in the mix.

That is, until she found an online group called Momstown that was meant to connect local moms.

“When I read about Momstown, I thought, ‘What an incredible thing for moms,’” said Miller, who is now the community manager of the Barrie Momstown chapter.

“When you become a parent, your own life gets put on hold. But having this group gives women their identities other than ‘mom’ back.

“I wish I’d have known about this when my first son was born,” she added.

That’s exactly what motivated Ann- Marie Burton and her business partner, Christi Rasheed, to launch the Momstown website, www.momstown.ca,in August 2007 in Burlington.

A chapter in Barrie, barrie.momstown.ca,was created in early August 2008.

“I moved to Burlington with a one-year- old daughter and lived on a street where there were no young children,” Burton said. “I was stuck in the house and felt trapped. I didn’t know how to meet other mothers without seeming strange and just going up to them.

“I searched for an online mommy group, and found (Rasheed’s) group, and we became good friends,” she added. “We started thinking about creating another mom group and turn it into a business.”

The beauty of Momstown is women don’t have to feel awkward about meeting new people, Burton said.

Logo from momstown.ca.

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