I am blogging live from my apartment pool. Yesterday we took Quinn for a splash.
Today I’m swimming solo, as my dear sweet husband is playing xBox with my daughter on his lap watching the baby so I can have some relaxing time by the pool.
My building has an interesting mix of people. There are mostly young singles here, but there are also several young mothers I have noticed walking around the property, on the elevator, or as we pass each other pushing our strollers of screaming kids in the hall.
Since having my baby 11 weeks ago, I’ve realized how much I miss my circle of friends. We are scattered so far away from each other. I can keep in contact with them, but we don’t see each other often enough.
Today as I sit at the pool alone, watching groups of girlfriends chit chat by the pool, I realize that I need new friends here in Atlanta. I never really made any before now. My life was consumed with work before Matt moved here permanently, and if I wanted to see my friends I just loaded up in the car and took a road trip home to Alabama.
I have one good friend here but we live far enough apart that seeing each other more than once every couple of weeks is tough.
So how do you make friends in an unfriendly world?
Sure, I could go over and infiltrate myself into their conversations, but that would be strange.
I have looked on MeetUp.com because that’s where I found my awesome book club that I was a member of last year and it seems that most of the moms groups are by invitation only. I’m not sure I want to be involved in something too exclusive to include a new mom that doesn’t know anyone.
Making friends as a kid is easy. You run over on the playground and ask someone if they want to push you on a swing and bam, friendship starts. As an adult, it gets trickier. Especially when you go through a life changing event like having your first child.
Everything changes.
I’m hoping to find my place in the Mommyhood soon.