One of these things is not like the other....

and that thing is me...

so i've been toying with the idea of joining or well at least checking out a moms group here in Kelowna. i was figuring that something scheduled at the same time each week would be nice to look forward to, meet new people and get out of the house etc. now the reason i've been "toying" with this idea for so long is because i really hate meeting new people. it's not the new people i hate...it's the getting out there and not being shy, opening up my mouth and talking to people i don't know yet. now to some this could come as a great suprise...when i'm in a situation i can pull it out, be friendly, talk, have a good time etc but every second on the inside i'm somewhat dieing with trying not to be shy.

after some facebook internet creeping i found a group to check out and over the last 6 months of being a mom i've hummed and hawwed about it everytime i see the bi-weekly posts about what they're up to etc. this was the week! they said they were going for a walk downtown along the lake. I'm in! I do this often...I get a coffee, bust out the stroller and leasurely walk along the water. This sounds like the perfect fit for my first time of checking out the group. I show up this morning I hardly get out of my car and I see that these ladies are "limbering up". No seriously the are...the head to toe Lululemon, Nike and off road strollers made me want to get back in my car, pretend I didn't have a child there to take for a walk and drive away; but i didn't.

there I am...jeans, hoodie with a disgusting gross shirt underneath it and my moccassins. you know me...I wear basically slippers all the time. Well when I'm not wearing flip flops that is. So there I am ready for our what I think will be leasurly stroll along the lake. Nope it was more like a speed walk hike. I couldn't keep my coffee in the coffee holder on my stroller because it constantly kept spilling out all over A) the stroller and B) my hand. So I one hand pushed and one hand drank. So what to talk about with these ladies...BABIES! oh yes and working out, eating healthy, how anti non organic most of them were...don't eat anything or talk about eating anything...that's why we're speed walking... Ok let me pause for a second here. Ladies I didn't come on this walk today with the intention to burn calories...if I wanted to work out I'd go to the gym...which I probably should do but don't. Anyways then there was on to the bootcamp work out talk. Seriously?!?!?! Ok I understand my body has changed alot and I'm not in super condition but I am skinnier than before Wyatt was born and I'm stoked about that. Sure I'm stretched out and flabby but it'll come with time. I didn't think I was getting hooked into some hoof downtown. I'm sure that every stoner sitting underneath the trees toking up were laughing their asses off at us. Really at this point I would've rather sat down on the grass with them and relaxed.

but there's no quitting mid run now katie

so i figured why not talk about babies...harmless question "so does yours sleep through the night?" I asked that question to one lady 20 minutes into the walk and 45 minutes later when we were arriving at the park she was still talking about all her theories, schedules, books she had read, sleep therapy etc and no he does not sleep through the night. At that point when they were all heading off to "play at the park" I took my passed out 6 month old home.

As for that group of moms today...one of these things is not like the other and the other is me. Oh and don't worry people I don't think I'll be morphing into someone else any time soon