Running Group

So, I stole this picture off my friends Facebook and maybe that is why they are so small, who knows? So I posted it twice to maybe give it more of an effect. But anyway, So since I have been married I have been trying to establish myself in a Family Ward. It has been weird, It is mostly just me and thinking to much but it has been an adjustment. Mostly in the Friends in Relief Society and finding women friends. I really don't have a lot. Which is fine but sometimes it is hard and lonely. I made friends with women so easily when I was single that I struggled to know what was the matter with me.

I soon discovered these things called GNO, Bunko and a plethora of other things that married women do. I was single until I was 30 and I have had my share of Girls nights outs and going to movies and dinners with the girls, that I was kind of in shock that when I got married and joined a Family ward, all of these women wanted to hang out with each other and not there husbands all the time.
When I was single we just hung out with each other because we did not want to be lonely but would 100 X rather be on a date or with a MAN. So it all seemed weird to me. So I would think, I should really try hard to make friends....So I tried to invite myself into a Bunko group (not knowing there was # limits) and make friends and it just was not happening for me.
And then I would think
I am different
even though we are the same age these ladies and I
they have been married for 10 years
me 2
Enjoy your husband

But I would sometimes feel sorry for myself. They have preschools and play groups and lots of ways to socialize with one another and sometimes I feel lonely because I just do....
Jeremy is in School every night
and blah blah blah...

I was feelin down
I needed inspiration
a hobby
a dream that would connect me with people again

So the point is, what turned me around is my Sister Tiffany and a conversation with my Mom..Tiffany invited me to do that Ragner Relay and it awakened me to something I let die after having Xander
Running
I am a good runner
I run
and when I work hard at it
I can run pretty fast.

Seeing my sister and her sweet friends made me want the same
so I decided to start a group and I was scared
that no one would come and I would feel stupid.

But people came and they liked it and we are going on our 4th run this Saturday. We go every other Saturday! I am so happy now. (Thanks Mom for the talk about you know what, and you are right it does work) I don't need Bunko or GNO or the plethora of other things right now. (Maybe when I have been married for 10 years)
But I do need running and a way to bond with some sweet ladies every once in awhile.