i have community with my local friends and i am super thankful for that as well, but building whole family friends is such a new feeling to me. Trying to keep up with Normal Moms socially so your kid can benefit from it sucks and is awful. genuine friendship rules. i'm glad to feel less isolated.

like in the meantime it is such a breath of fresh air to find myself excited to hang out at the christmas parade or meet up to play catch while the girlies run around in the bushes, or set up a turntable together while they do facepaint. all bake a pie together. the community emotion!!!

and it leaves me, a wretched introvert, without much brains or time to hang out with my non-parent friends, which is sad but also just sort of. part of the deal i guess, until kiddo is old enough to arrange playdates and go to events on her own. i do want to make more time for those folks, too, but

A significant portion of your social activities as a parent of a young kid ends up being hanging out with adults you wouldn't choose to hang with, but your kids are friends and so there you are, making small talk for literal years worth of playdates and community events and birthdays and group texts

Like i have a lil teeny cold rn so i can't even DO a lot, esp with friends IRL, but my brain is still moving so fast and it's fun and i like to feel alive 1/4 of the time :///// made an ob appt bc idk maybe they have more ideas. PCP is helpful but the endo i tried sure wasn't

It has!! I'm so exhausted!!! Ty 😭💜

Too many things are happening!!!!!

Last night was nice though. We were trying to watch singing in the rain, but the power went out around 9:00, and so we played board games until 7-year-old was chill enough to go to bed in the dark

I just want to be flat all day, but I have to do so many logistical figuring out things, and I have to do it without my ADHD medicine or AC. True hell

But of course now the pharmacy is closed because of stupid storm damage and my house doesn't have power and there's a boil water advisory. And I've barely recovered from the emotional toil of driving home inside the storm last night.

It's fun for now but also it feels like it'd get old fast if it was all the time again. Very glad to have my personal favorite passion project of all time (kids) to take up all my free time, and to be able to take occasional fuck around breaks when needed and possible. God i really do to sleep tho

She was visibly nervous about doing it but it went over really well bc i work with cool people. Made me feel a little ember of gladness, which i thanked her for. May also have gotten food poisoning at the function but you win some you lose some.