First Stafford Meeting!

  Today, we had our first BWI of Central VA Stafford location meeting! We had an awesome turn out and pulled people from Spotsylvania, Fredericksburg, Stafford, and Woodbridge, in addition to leaders from Alexandria, Richmond, Centreville, and also Woodbridge. If you missed us today at the Porter Library, but live close to that location, we'd love to hear what times and places would work for you, because we'd like to get a monthly meeting on the calendar. We have a few members that are waiting to take their VBE test with BWI to lead the new meetings, but until then will be pulling leaders from both Richmond and our sister group in the DC/NoVA area.
   If you are interested in becoming a VBE to help lead meetings, please let us know! We'd love to have more, especially for our Monday meetings in Richmond. Ideally we'd be able to have a weekday and weekend meeting in both the Richmond and Stafford areas, so now would be a great time to step up if you've already been considering taking the plunge.
  Also, on Monday is our monthly weekday meeting for Richmond, and then the weekend meeting coming on the 26th. We are also going to be manning a booth at the Kids Expo at RIR on February 23rd, so you should come by and check us out. We'll have fun coloring pages for the kids and maybe even a craft! If you are interested in picking up a shift for the booth, please let us know. We'll be there from 10-4 and would to change shifts every hour. Hope you can join us!
  Lastly, we are looking at ordering shirts to be here in time for the expo and also for all our new members. Check out our facebook page this coming week for the mock-ups and to place your order. If you have friends in the DC, Hampton Roads, or even DelMarVa group (Virginia side) that you think might be interested, tell them to check by too. After all, Virginia is for babywearers :)
 Thanks again to all our friends who came out today, we can't wait to see you again soon!

January Meetings

We have three meetings scheduled so far for January!  Please join us if you are able.

• January 12th - Stafford Saturday Meeting @ Porter Library from 11am-1pm
• January 14th - Richmond Monday Meeting @ St. Thomas from 10am-12pm
• January 26th - Richmond Saturday Meeting @ St. Thomas from 10am-12pm

Our Richmond meetings are scheduled for the 2nd Monday and 4th Saturday of each month from 10am-12pm at St. Thomas Episcopal Church.

Also, check out our lending library options, we have lots, and please "lend" from it!!  We want you to use these carriers!  (You do need to be a BWI member to lend from our library.)  We will be updating the blog soon with the book library we have as well.

Upcoming Meetings

So we have been pretty quiet since International Babywearing Week, but we are still here.

We will be having our regularly scheduled meetings (2nd Monday and 4th Saturday) on Monday, December 10th and Saturday, December 22nd both from 10am-12pm and at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 3602 Hawthorne Avenue, Richmond, Virginia 23222.

At the Monday meeting, we will be making babywearing peg dolls, so if you plan to attend please RSVP (rivercitybabywearers@gmail.com or on Facebook).  Pegs will be provided, and if you do attend please bring a canned food item to donate to the food bank.

A January Satruday meeting in Fredericksburg is also in the works, so stay tuned for more info.

We would also like to say "Hi" to the newest Virginia BWI Chapter, BWI of Hampton Roads.