In high school, it was about seeking out the people that shared the same interests with you, those interests could be drama, basketball, JROTC, or the Backstreet Boys. All that mattered is that you had something in common and you could tolerate each other.
Then as adults it gets a bit more complicated, perhaps you can make friends at college, or your workplace, or a civic group or club you belong to, but there is still that common denominator of having at least one thing in common.
I have kids, which means I share a common denominator with many people out there, and yet finding "Mommy" friends is so illusive to me. It is a friendship I have struggled to create over the past eight years, and having recently moved, I don't anticipate it getting any easier.
I feel completely and utterly socially inept when it comes to making "Mommy" friends. For starters, where can I find these women? Do I start stalking playgrounds and Chuck E. Cheese's in the hopes that I'll find a mom that I hit it off with? How would I even approach them? I can see it now....
Me: "Hi, I just noticed how well your son is playing on the playground with my two boys, we should totally Facebook each other!"
or....
Me: "OMG our kids have matching Perry the Platypus shirts, do you love Phineas and Ferb too? We have the new movie, you should come over some time for a playdate and watch it with us!"
Nah...wouldn't work. It seems picking up chicks in a bar is easier than picking up mommy friends at a park.
So in order to not appear as super creepy, stalker mom, I'll probably be the quiet mom sitting on the park bench, watching my kids play on the swings and slides and hope that one day I'll be able to stumble into a mommy friendship of my own.
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