Ok so here's how it is...
My name is Emma, I'm 26, married and I have 3 children - an 8 year old DS from a previous relationship and a 2 year old DS and a nearly 1 year old DD.
I never really did the whole 'friends who had children' because they simply didn't have children. While I was growing and subsequently bring up my DS1, they'd all gone off to university, made new friends and partied hard. I partied hard, but not quite with as much gusto as them, having to come home and raise a child with a hangover; it's just not fun. I didn't visit playgroups with him because I was very obviously a teen mother and whether it was becuase they had predjudices against me for that fact; or maybe I had preconceptions of them becuase they were all late 20's/early 30's, married etc - I just didn't speak to anyone and noone approached me - a very cringleworthy experience looking back. I guess that's what has put me off visiting playgroups with my two youngest children.
I pretty much lived to work, rather than worked to live until my DS1 was 5, when I met my now husband (at work!) and now we're married, with 2 more beautiful children and I'm a SAHM until my youngest start reception. Now I don't even have a work social life. I have no social life. I love my husband, but frankly, I'm sick of him being pretty much my ONLY social interaction.
It's about time I made an effort to make some friends.. I think what holds me back is the fact I feel like I'm hard to get on with? So a bit about me:
I have a shocking sense of humour - dry and often black, quite often non-PC.
I love to gossip, some may say bitch, but it's never 100% malicious.
I have a lip piercing and LOVE rock/metal music.
I don't drink often, but when I do, I do it in style and with little grace.
I occasionally swear and smoke the VERY occasional cigarette (usually when drunk).
I'm only educated to GSCE level, but that's mainly due to falling pregnant at 17 - I like to think I'm reasonably intelligent.
I used to rock a quirky, bohemian appearance and was a size 8/10, but since DS2 and DD have arrived, I only rock Asda George 12/14- badly at that.
Want to be my friend? 