If you are looking for an opportunity to hit the courts with a nice, fun group of women, please join us for MONA Tennis. Tennis meet-ups typically start with casual rallying and end with friendly match play. We meet on Tuesday nights from 7:30 - 9:00 pm at the Tuckahoe Park courts starting in May. All levels and abilities are welcome. All you need to participate is your racquet! For updates, please join the MONA Tennis subgroup on Groups.io. more info...
Come with your baby in a stroller or carrier for a morning walk and get that fresh air. Dogs welcome. We'll start at Bon Air Park Rose Garden, meet up in the garden circle, and head out on the bike paths at 10:35. There is easy parking beside the garden. Rain or shine.
Any updates to this event will be posted in the New Moms groups.io forum. more info...
Join the MONA Book Club for our May Read: Crush: A Novel by Ada Calhoun
About the Book:
When a husband asks his wife to consider what might be missing from their marriage, what follows surprises them both—sex, heartbreak and heart rekindling, and a rediscovered sense of all that is possible
She’s happy and settled and productive and content in her full life—a child, a career, an admirable marriage, deep friendships, happy parents, and a spouse she still loves. But when her husband urges her to address what the narrow labels of “husband” and “wife” force them to edit out of their lives, the very best kind of hell breaks loose.
Using the author’s personal experiences as a jumping-off point, Crush is about the danger and liberation of chasing desire, the havoc it can wreak, and most of all the clear sense of self one finds when the storm passes. Destined to become a classic novel of marriage, and tackling the big questions being asked about partnership in postpandemic relationships, Crush is a sharp, funny, seductive, and revelatory novel about holding on to everything it’s possible to love—friends, children, parents, passion, lovers, husbands, all of the world’s good books, and most of all one’s own deep sense of purpose.
Event Details
May 27, 2025
7:00 pm
East West Cafe, 3101 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 22201 more info...
If you are looking for an opportunity to hit the courts with a nice, fun group of women, please join us for MONA Tennis. Tennis meet-ups typically start with casual rallying and end with friendly match play. We meet on Tuesday nights from 7:30 - 9:00 pm at the Tuckahoe Park courts starting in May. All levels and abilities are welcome. All you need to participate is your racquet! For updates, please join the MONA Tennis subgroup on Groups.io. more info...
Come with your baby in a stroller or carrier for a morning walk and get that fresh air. Dogs welcome. We'll start at Bon Air Park Rose Garden, meet up in the garden circle, and head out on the bike paths at 10:35. There is easy parking beside the garden. Rain or shine.
Any updates to this event will be posted in the New Moms groups.io forum. more info...
May 31st is MONA's annual member picnic. Bring your family for a fun day at Bluemont Park. Event starts at 11am as our first performer takes the stage. Don't forget to register your family ($5 and only one registration is needed per family). Every attendee gets a ticket for a free frozen treat!
The details:
Bluemont Park
May 31, 2025
11 AM - 3 PM
$5 per family (only one registration needed per family)
Performer Schedule:
11:00 am: Bubbles with Molly
12:00 pm: Farmer Jim and His Animal Friends
1:00 pm: Rainbow Rock Band
2:00 pm: TBD
More information on food available during the picnic coming soon!
If you are looking for an opportunity to hit the courts with a nice, fun group of women, please join us for MONA Tennis. Tennis meet-ups typically start with casual rallying and end with friendly match play. We meet on Tuesday nights from 7:30 - 9:00 pm at the Tuckahoe Park courts starting in May. All levels and abilities are welcome. All you need to participate is your racquet! For updates, please join the MONA Tennis subgroup on Groups.io. more info...
Come hang out with other new moms and dads first Saturday of the month at the park (location changes each month)
Updates to these events will be shared in WhatsApp, message the event organizer to be added to the Fall/Winter 2024 babies WhatsApp group if you're not already in it.
May: Quincy Park (1021 N Quincy St, Arlington, VA 22201) June: Westover Park (1001 N Kennebec St, Arlington, VA 22205) July: Bluemont Park (329 N Manchester St, Arlington, VA 22203)
If you are looking for an opportunity to hit the courts with a nice, fun group of women, please join us for MONA Tennis. Tennis meet-ups typically start with casual rallying and end with friendly match play. We meet on Tuesday nights from 7:30 - 9:00 pm at the Tuckahoe Park courts starting in May. All levels and abilities are welcome. All you need to participate is your racquet! For updates, please join the MONA Tennis subgroup on Groups.io. more info...
All ages welcome at this FREE, fun, low-key trail running event at Potomac Overlook! Current MONA president and local running coach Kate Marden will lead families on an easy-paced trail run/walk/hike, with the expectation that there will be ample stops for snacks and rock throwing along Donaldson Run. Meet at 9:30 am at the picnic shelter beyond the tennis courts.
Event Details
June 14, 2025
9:30 - 11:00 am
Potomac Overlook Regional Park
2845 Marcey Road
Arlington, VA 22207 more info...
If you are looking for an opportunity to hit the courts with a nice, fun group of women, please join us for MONA Tennis. Tennis meet-ups typically start with casual rallying and end with friendly match play. We meet on Tuesday nights from 7:30 - 9:00 pm at the Tuckahoe Park courts starting in May. All levels and abilities are welcome. All you need to participate is your racquet! For updates, please join the MONA Tennis subgroup on Groups.io. more info...
Join the MONA Book club for our June Read: The Wedding People by Alison Espach
About the book:
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.
It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She’s immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.
In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.
Event Details
June 24, 2025
7:00 pm
East West Cafe, 3101 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 22201 more info...
If you are looking for an opportunity to hit the courts with a nice, fun group of women, please join us for MONA Tennis. Tennis meet-ups typically start with casual rallying and end with friendly match play. We meet on Tuesday nights from 7:30 - 9:00 pm at the Tuckahoe Park courts starting in May. All levels and abilities are welcome. All you need to participate is your racquet! For updates, please join the MONA Tennis subgroup on Groups.io. more info...
Smithsonian Nighttime Adventures at the Natural History Museum are back!
Join fellow adventurers at one of the world's most visited museum as the doors close, the lights dim, and the crowds shuffle out for the day. Wander through the Fossil Hall, where dinosaurs cast giant shadows. Learn about Earth's past, discover the ocean's aquatic wonders, blast off to the moon, visit pollinators, and walk softly past mysterious mammals. Participate in games and challenges, immerse yourself in hand-on crafts and even learn how to eat like a T-rex while playing The Game of Survival.
Cost: $110/person (normally $150/person!)
Ages: 8 to 14 years old. There must be at least one adult for every five children in any group that registers. No siblings younger than 8. No adults without children. Every person coming must register.
Date: Saturday, June 28
Schedule: (Previous schedule - subject to change)
6:30-7p.m. Check-in
7 to 7:30 p.m. Orientation and snack time
7:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Interactive exploration of the museum, hands-on activities, Smithsonian Sleepover T-shirt sales
If you are looking for an opportunity to hit the courts with a nice, fun group of women, please join us for MONA Tennis. Tennis meet-ups typically start with casual rallying and end with friendly match play. We meet on Tuesday nights from 7:30 - 9:00 pm at the Tuckahoe Park courts starting in May. All levels and abilities are welcome. All you need to participate is your racquet! For updates, please join the MONA Tennis subgroup on Groups.io. more info...
Come hang out with other new moms and dads first Saturday of the month at the park (location changes each month)
Updates to these events will be shared in WhatsApp, message the event organizer to be added to the Fall/Winter 2024 babies WhatsApp group if you're not already in it.
May: Quincy Park (1021 N Quincy St, Arlington, VA 22201) June: Westover Park (1001 N Kennebec St, Arlington, VA 22205) July: Bluemont Park (329 N Manchester St, Arlington, VA 22203)
If you are looking for an opportunity to hit the courts with a nice, fun group of women, please join us for MONA Tennis. Tennis meet-ups typically start with casual rallying and end with friendly match play. We meet on Tuesday nights from 7:30 - 9:00 pm at the Tuckahoe Park courts starting in May. All levels and abilities are welcome. All you need to participate is your racquet! For updates, please join the MONA Tennis subgroup on Groups.io. more info...
If you are looking for an opportunity to hit the courts with a nice, fun group of women, please join us for MONA Tennis. Tennis meet-ups typically start with casual rallying and end with friendly match play. We meet on Tuesday nights from 7:30 - 9:00 pm at the Tuckahoe Park courts starting in May. All levels and abilities are welcome. All you need to participate is your racquet! For updates, please join the MONA Tennis subgroup on Groups.io. more info...