'We are all in this together': Meet Cape Cod Moms, a blog by and for local moms

On a sunny Friday afternoon in Harwich, local moms and their kids walked in and out of Perks grabbing a free cup of coffee and hitting the road or staying to chat with some familiar and new faces.

As moms turned up, they were greeted by the eager moms of Cape Cod Moms, an online blog, wanting to make their day a little brighter. Whether it was founder Meghan Block stopping moms to tell them to put their coffee on her tab as part of their coffee meet-up or numerous moms offering to watch their children while they waited in line, it was clear to see that Block and her team were focused on one thing: Mom.

“We just tell moms just to come and if they show up, we buy them a cup of coffee,” Block said. “Some moms stay, chat and make friends. Some moms just get coffee to go. But it's kind of our way to create that community.”

Cape Cod Moms relaunched in October 2023 after Block bought the domain name from previous Falmouth mommy blogger Amy Leonardi. For several years, Leonardi ran Cape Cod Moms as a “collaborative kind of community resource (rather) than a media resource,” according to Block, but it went dormant after the pandemic.

Boston Moms takes over Cape Cod Moms

“I reached out to her and said, ‘Hey, I have this thing called Boston Moms (and) I really want to expand to the Cape, would you ever be willing to sell me the domain name?’” Block explained.  “‘I'm going to I promise you that I will take this and make it something that you'll be really proud of.’”

The beauty of Cape Cod Moms and Block’s two other sites, Boston Moms and Rhode Island Moms — all owned and operated by her media company Wicked Good Moms Media Group —  is simple: it’s by moms and for moms, providing what Block refers to as “a Mom’s eye view” of each respective area.

“It’s so important for Moms to have an outlet and normalize the good and the challenges of child-rearing,” said Leah Rockwell, a writer for Cape Cod Moms and school psychologist at Ezra Baker Innovation School in Dennis.

From personal essays and informative articles on topics such as which stroller to buy or tips for maintaining a good balance between work, being a mom and being an individual, the blog touches on many things important to moms.

Sharing recommendations with peers

“As moms, we go to other moms for recommendations,” Block said. “We ask them what car seat to buy, what library to go to storytime, which beach has the best and most accessible bathrooms. Google exists, lots of these kinds of listicle websites exist, but nothing existed on the Cape that was by moms for moms and I think that that mom-to-mom recommendation is what will continue to set us apart.”

Echoing Rockwell’s earlier statement, Ashley Flanagan, operations manager for Cape Cod Moms, said outside of providing resources, the blog provides support for moms, noting that sometimes as a mom you just need to know that someone else is in the same boat as you.

“It's so interesting as moms that we have the same experiences but we don't really talk about it,” said Flanagan. “I think being a mom, before recently, you didn't talk about how hard it was…that sometimes you can't get dinner on the table so you end up doing Eggo waffles and orange juice for dinner… In the past, I feel like you were almost made to feel as a bad mom…But now we're validating you. Telling you ‘No, no. We're doing it too. Everybody's doing it like this. We are all in this together.’”

Outside of blogging, Cape Cod Moms also prioritizes hosting events for local moms to come and enjoy themselves and meet others in their area.

“We position anything we're doing in the community as for the mom,” said Blocks. “You can bring your kids to the coffee meetups but we're buying you a cup of coffee. I always say we're taking care of the people who take care of everybody else and I think that's really what makes moms more apt to come out because they know that there's not an expectation that they're going to (have to) be super done up and their kids are going to be so well-behaved.”

To learn more about Cape Cod Moms and their meetups, visit www.capecodmoms.com/ or check out their social medias @capecodmoms on Instagram and Cape Cod Moms on Facebook.

Frankie Rowley covers entertainment and things to do. Contact her at [email protected].

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This article originally appeared on Cape Cod Times: Local mommy blog Cape Cod Moms aims to provide a mom's perspective