I miss being in high school. I miss how easy it was to find where you belong and form a circle of friends that stayed true to you until the very end of time. I moved to Cincinnati a few months ago. I researched the area and decided that I want to be in on the revamping of this beautiful city, and I am. I’m just doing it alone. I’m still feeling my way around and trying really hard to make a few friends. My biggest hurdle is trying to find out where exactly it is that I belong.

I’m a mother so naturally I start in that area. For the last few weeks I have learned that while I am a mother that is the only thing I have in common with some people. While they are chasing babies in their terrible twos or cleaning dirty behinds- I’m not. I have have an 8 year old and a 6 year old and I’m 25 freaking years old versus the mom in her late twenties early thirties. I got tired of the dirty looks I got so I headed on to the young professionals. There are the men and women who have just entered into their professionals are still persuing a higher education…great, right? I’m starting out in school and I just started a very interesting and demanding jobs so I’ll fit right in! I could not have been more wrong if I made an effort. I’m tired of getting the look that just yells ” we are so above you.” or the one that kills me the most ” you have 2 kids already?”

I’m not asking these people to borrow a kidney. I just want to go out for coffee or tea, to see a movie, maybe even have lunch or dinner, and an occasional night on the town sans husband and kids. I feel like I have a big sign posted on my ass that says warning this is a badddd woman! Seriously, what the fuck?