On Friday I went to a wedding reception with my ds. I know the bride from ds' school. Her ds and mine are in the same year but I don't really know her outside of school. The verbal invite was very casual and she mentioned there'd be a couple of other Mum's from school there. I arrived with my ds and didn't know a single person except the bride, who was obviously quite busy!! Thankfully ds was with me otherwise I'd have been sat on my own! I did attempt to make conversation with a couple of people but I'm not even remotely capable of speaking English with someone I don't know! We stayed for a torturous 2 hours then made our excuses and left. I'm glad we made the effort to go but I felt so single!!
2nd "single" moment was yesterday. There was a local music day being held just round the corner from where I live. I'd tried to get a few friends to come but because the weather was so bad everyone had pulled out. I already had a ticket and didn't want to waste my fiver (!) so I took ds. We had a lovely day but I felt like "Billy-No-Mates". I was desperate for someone to arrive that I could have an adult conversation with!
During the week I don't even slightly mind being single. I am always so busy with ds, work, school etc that I'm glad to have the evenings on my own but on the weekends I really struggle. Many of my friends don't have children and the ones with children have husbands and do "family" things. I'd feel like I was intruding if I invited us along!
Anyway, I just wanted a moan really!
On a more positive note: The bride looked gorgeous on Friday and the music was brill yesterday so not all bad!!