Information for Moms Who Want to Dance 1x per week

If you like the description of the dance lessons, or you just want to get out of the house once a week and wear a pair of heels for forty-five minutes, then try to take a free ballroom dancing lesson either in the suburbs, or even better, at a studio in the city. The studio I go to, "Dance With Me SoHo," is in a great location for shopping or going out to eat after the lesson, if you can make a whole afternoon of it.

The address is 466 Broome Street (corner of Greene) and you can get there from Grand Central by taking the 6 train to Spring Street, walking one block south to Broome and then a few blocks west to Greene.

When my kids were very little I took a continuing ed class at NYU once a week, and it made me feel like a real person again, just being among grown ups and having some writing assignments that required me to go to a movie and to see a play. It was a pain to get there and I had to hire a babysitter for that evening every week, but it was very worth the change in routine. The dancing could serve the same purpose, and you are exercising at the same time.