This morning I decided to take a step out of my comfort zone. I get a little nervous trying out new things especially when I don’t know anyone else. Today Elijah and I took a drive over to White Salmon. We stopped by the library for baby/toddler story time. I didn’t know what to expect since I’ve never gone to a story time before. There was one at the Bozeman library, but I had another baby while I was working. When I stopped working, it was summer and I was basically never inside.
Now that I am here, I know that I need to take some leaps to try and meet people. Especially while we are still in limbo without a house of our own. At first I didn’t really want to go exploring too much of one town and get to plugged in if we don’t end up living there. Now that Brent’s been working for a week, I have to get out and do more. I can’t just keep going on one run a day and then just staying at my parent’s house the rest of the day. I need to take the effort. If I ended up making friends somewhere that we don’t live, a 30 minute drive is nothing. More friends along the gorge would be better than no friends.
Story time was fun, although Elijah is still a little too young to really understand anything that went on. He only liked participating when they gave him noise makers. That was the best thing. Otherwise, he just wanted to play with the ladies boots that was near us or the door stopper. I was really hoping to make a connection with someone right away, but I could tell most of them come to story time on a regular basis. Most of them came with other friends and knew the other kids in the group. I didn’t really chat with anyone other than a few words here and there about our little ones. I don’t want to feel discouraged because it was my first attempt. It still was slightly hard not to feel that way. I am not going to give up. It is a process. I will try and go the same day each week in hopes that I can connect with another mom that goes that day as well. Here is to putting myself out there. Next time pray that I just start talking to anyone.