Mom dating.

A friend recently told me about joining an app for moms looking to meet up for play dates and such. You can see how many kids they have and ages of children, what they’re into, and a little write up, about them and their interests, where they are from and education. So basically an app for mom dating.

So I signed up.

So i started looking through other moms dating profiles. I had set one up with me and the kids pictures, adventure pictures, our typical day outside pictures. I said that we love being outside, climbing trees and making mud pies. We were looking for some friends in our area to hang out with, start our own gang, that kinda thing.

The more i looked through the accounts, the more I wondered if i had done it wrong. Every mom had a picture of them in full make up with a professional photographer ( or filters, lots of filters) mostly head shots, with the typical, “ i love wine” “is it to early to drink wine” “hot mess” “love my family” stuff you read on mom blogs. If there was pictures of their kids they are all super clean with designer jeans and perfectly brushed hair. I mean if you drink that much wine how are your kids so clean? Am I right?!

So i think well there’s gotta be some of my people on here, the ones that just don’t care what the kids wear, that love being outside like us, who will have kids that will love my kids, and a mom I wont feel uncomfortable around. And total bonus our husbands would get along. Ive “waved” at a few moms, ya know trying to keep the kids age range around the same so we have that in common, looking at the moms and basically deciding if I want to hang out with her. Most don’t talk about their husbands, and those who do have husbands who work away. So I figure we have that.

Ive waved at about 10 different moms now. Not one has replied hahaha. When I opened the account I put kinda a long winded write up about myself and the kids. If you know me you know I tend to go on sometimes long and blizzard tangents about randomness. It’s just how my brain works. So I figured that I would just put it all out there right off the hop. I dated enough in my early 20s to know that there’s no point in pretending because 5 minutes with someone and you’ll just know.

So Ive since changed the write up. It’s straight to the point, basic, and explains we are just looking for friends to play with.

Mom dating is seriously harder then ANY blind date I have ever been on. Since we live in a rural area as well it makes it harder to find people, Ive put myself out there with the women in town a number of times but have not got any bites in return. So i expand my net. Because at this point its for the kids. I mean thats basically what everything is about once you become a parent but I’d like them to have some pretty solid play friends.

So I continue to put myself out there in hopes of finding another mom who’s socially awkward, likes to go on tangents, has little wild ones that would rather nap in the grass then come inside. Maybe Ill find my people. Until then it will just be one awkward mom date after another……that is, if anyone ever waves at me.

Spread some love today.

Simone

Xoxo