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Carolanne000 - October 10th, 2010 10:09 AM

I have worked for the last 15 yrs of my life in a highly social environment. Adjusting to motherhood and being a stay at home mom is hard to get used to. I feel like i\'m losing myself. Not to mention, I just moved to the Palm Springs area and know NO ONE. Any advice on how to keep myself entertained other than, cleaning every crevice in my house or finally organizing all those years of pictures???

cindy - October 10th, 2010 1:39 PM

you may still communicate with your office mates and peers before by constant video chatting/chatting, sending text messages, organizing a get-together during free time or usually at the end of the week just to ease away your hang-ons.

September - October 14th, 2010 9:50 PM

You can try looking for online jobs, just make sure that it is legit and avoid scams.

LilMum - October 20th, 2010 4:30 PM

I had the same problem, I think it is so hard to be a stay at home mom and know what to do! What has been a great break for me has been going to meetups with my DD, I get to be around other very supportive moms and meet new people while their kids entertain my daughter.

Lilypie - October 20th, 2010 4:32 PM

Oh gosh, I just mentioned this last night. I've been a stay at home mom for 2m now and it feels like a lifetime. I'm only 28 so I've only worked the past 10yrs but dammit I've worked long and hard and now to sit at home. It's so weird. I'm dying to go back to work!!! But. I'm also dyin to have another baby before I hit the big 3-0. Or as I refer to it, "the 5th anniversary of my 25th bday" ;) as far as what to do, I took the kids to waterparks and to bday parties all summer. Or I hang out with my family a lot. I live over an hour away from my friends so I know how lonely it gets, and I'm also in a new small town where everyones been here forever and are all chummy. Schools about to start for my stepson so I REALLY don't know what I'm going to do with just the baby lol.

lostMarbles0519 - October 20th, 2010 4:34 PM

Same here. I started my own little business, and I volunteer at schools where my kids are going, I run 3 times a week, I have backseat on my bike and we with my 3 girlfriends travel to far away parks. I must keep my mind & body busy, otherwise I get seriously depressed. This way I'm exhausted, but much happier then totally alone with my thoughs for a long time (hahaha) I think only mothers can understand that.

Marscha - October 21st, 2010 3:13 PM

adjustment is only hard at first especially when you do not accept the fact right away that you are now shifting everything from being workaholic to a stay at home mom. you need to internalize it rather than thinking of how sad you have left the life you once knew.

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