I don't know! I do have friends. No, honest I do! Well I guess what I'm saying is, I don't have any "mom" friends locally. Like, at my kid's school and stuff. I suppose its hard to make friends just because I stand outside the school, every morning and engage in the briefest of idle chatter until the door opens. I mean I am sociable! All of my friends are people who knew me before I had my babies. Its making new ones I'm not very good at.
It really kind of hit me today because it is the last day of school for Big C and I've realized that I did not form one relationship with any of the parents at his school. He is now taking karate classes, and after 2 months, again I've not really established any connections with anyone there. This is going to trickle down to him sadly. This will mean very few, if any play dates with his classmates over the summer break.
I'm feeling like a pretty sucky mom right now. I know the issue is me. Obviously. I don't seem to have much in common with the other Moms. I'm older than a lot of them and they have kids older than mine too. So when they are talking about the kindergarten class at blankety blank elementary school, other moms will hop into the conversation because they also have kids there....and my oldest is only 4! Perhaps I'm slowing down in my old age and just not as chatty with people as I once was. I don't even make new friends in the circles I used to make them in all the time. Times have changed, or perhaps, only I have. Have you noticed that about yourself? That say 10 years ago you'd have been social with anyone in an instant, but these days, it seems you have nothing else in common with people?
-MoM-
Passover 2024
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