Let's see where this goes.

It has been nearly a month since I posted, and even those posts weren't real meaningful. To be quite honest, I have just been in some sort of funk. Not just with blogging, but with everything. This move was a little bit more difficult than I had anticipated, but I am happy to say that things are moving up and I am getting really excited about a lot of things coming up.

I suppose I will start with why things have been a bit more difficult for me than normal. I am a social person. I love being around people all the time and I love when my children have the chance to interact with other children. Often times that means for me interaction with other adults. Living on a military installations, basically since being married, you can get used to a few luxuries. (My blogging/army wife friends Holly, Amber, Jessica, Mindy, Ashley and Christy are probably laughing at my use of "luxury" especially coming from Ft. Irwin!) Really though, you live on a military base surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of young families with children about the same age as yours. More importantly than that, everybody has a lot of things in common, such as spouses in the army that are working around the clock, that are deployed, that are preparing for a deployment, or just finished one. Even more so than all of that is the fact that most everybody is far away from where they call "home." You are surrounded by an immediate group of friends that would do anything for you and are eager to help, knowing you would do the same for them.

With all that said, living now in the civilian life, still not living near family or friends, the adjustment just wasn't as easy. I actually didn't anticipate it being this difficult. We moved into a ward that is full of empty nesters. I didn't see anybody there that seemed to be about my age nor did I see any kids that were my own kids ages. The first few weeks were quite difficult for me and my girls. We didn't know anybody until I got word of another ward's weekly playgroup. I, being desperate and un-shy, took my girls to it. It has been a blessing to finally have met other mom's and children.

Since then, I am so happy to learn that there are in fact young people in our ward. They were just either gone the day we arrived or I didn't notice since they either work with the youth or in the Primary. Things are looking up and looking promising and I can feel myself getting out of this slump that I have been in.

With all the hard adjustments that have been made, life is still really good. We have travelled a lot, visited lots of people, and gone to a lot of fun events such as weddings and graduations. I have an excellent husband who loves me and treats me better than I have ever deserved. I have two gorgeous girls to always play and laugh with. And we are comfortable in our new home. With all that I have to be grateful for, I feel like I am being very ungrateful when I gripe about "social issues"! I am just learning that I am better wife and mother when I can have adult interaction everyday with other mom's. I am just going to now have to work harder to do that. That is one thing that I definitely took for granted.


Anyway, just writing this makes me feel better. It feels good to explain why I have been absent from posting. I know that it might be good for others to be reminded how much women need each other. I don't consider myself needy or clingy....I just love to be surrounded by people.

Marjorie Pay Hinckley once said, "We are all in this together. We need each other. Oh, how we need each other. Those of us who are old need you who are young. And, hopefully, you who are young need some of us who are old. It is a sociological fact that women need women. We need deep and satisfying and loyal friendships with each other. These friendships are a necessary source of sustenance. We need to renew our faith every day. We need to lock arms and help build the kingdom so that it will roll forth and fill the whole earth."

Isn't that the truth?