Meeting the neighbors at the 4th of July event was nice but... We were the only OAD fam??
Aside from one neighbor who has a single adult son, everyone else that was there had multiple kids... 2 was the common number but there was also a mom of 3 pregnant with a 4th.
It was a little hard seeing the heavily pregnant lady as that would have been me if things went right. I'm still grieving as the baby we lost was due July 10th (I delivered her in January) so this is a rough week but also now feeling like this is right for my life/sanity even though I wish we didn't lose her. There were young kids not even being watched, one little girl was trying to grab a tiny dog's leg, no idea where her mom was.
I don't have my attention pulled. I can stop/correct my child from doing something potentially dangerous. Thankfully the girl stopped bothering the dog.
Anyway it seemed like a lot of chaos and I got overwhelmed plus it was hot so we only stayed an hour and I'm definitely still an introvert lol. I didn't get to meet the moms that had girls my daughter's age because I couldn't tell where they were! So the only people we really get to talk to was the older retired couple (who were awesome and have a granddaughter our kid's age (their daughter has a 3 yr old and a 1.5 yr old, I silently thought how are they surviving? I could never). Plus next door neighbors we already met. At least I attempted socialization... It's gotta get better at some point right? Sigh. Trying to make mom friends is hard as heck.