

She helped me find some classes, and two weeks after we landed, I showed up to my first stroller strides class at Green Hills Park in North Raleigh. When we made the move, the franchise owner there introduced me to the wonderful Missy Currin from Fit4Mom Midtown Raleigh. I discovered Fit4Mom when my eldest was born in California. In addition, there are playgroups, the new mama cafe and mom’s nights out. They offer classes for prenatal moms, for those with kids in strollers, and body boost for the moms that can and want to leave the kids at home. So if you’re a mom and you’ve found yourself in the Triangle, can I suggest these groups that helped this mom make Raleigh feel like home? Fit4Mom Midtown Raleighįit4Mom is, like its name implies, a fitness group for every stage of motherhood. I did have help from my very extroverted husband, but there were a couple of groups that really helped me to find my footing. While I was blessed with some amazing colleagues, I knew I needed more if Raleigh was ever going to feel like home. I’m an introvert, and at the time was working from home.


We’d come from the San Francisco Bay Area, the place where I’d grown up, a place that was full of childhood memories and more family and friends than I can count. With the help of a Realtor, we’d rented a house we’d only seen via Skype. In April of 2018, my husband and I and our two kids (ages 2 years and 2 months at the time) stepped off a plane as new residents of Raleigh.
