Though pregnant, I was my own self, with really no one to be accountable for. I worked like the workaholic that I was, traveled all throughout Seoul every working day, ate whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted and with whoever was free, and slept a lot. At least when I was in California where it was warmer and I had A CAR, I still met with friends whether single, married, or with children, and I didn't feel isolated after the arrival of my baby Luna. Being in Korea can be pretty lonely, but I soon discovered that being in Korea with a baby is even lonelier because the baby pretty much isolates you. All of my working friends can only play at night, and all of my friends are single with no babies in tow. So I decided that I needed to find some English speaking mommies here in Korea. I've posted on CL twice looking to form a play group, essentially for my own sanity. It hasn't worked. I also went about the American immigrant way: I went to church. I did make a mommy friend but she lives outside of Seoul. I know there are English speaking mommies here in Seoul but I just couldn't figure out how to find them. Googling "playgroups in Seoul" just brings up deserted forums that gets looked up once in a blue moon and I read that there is one at a church in Itaewon, but trying to get anywhere beyond a walking distance is pretty hard with a six month old. I figured the army wives probably hang out with the army wives and they all live right around Yongsan, if not on base already.
One night after doing some hours of research on sippy cups, I decided to pose the question to my facebook friends. I didn't get too many answers but one thing did happen. Someone invited me to a general first time mommies fb group. I would've never thought to look for mommies on fb! So I searched for mommy groups in Seoul and I finally found some expat mommies! ha! I figured I'd go with the next best thing if I can't find a playgroup around my neighborhood.
Then lying in bed last week after failing to fall asleep at 3 am, I figured out what I wanted out of my blog (aside from updating friends back home and sharing ridiculously cute pictures of Luna). While there are expat mommies and daddies here that know what they're doing and probably don't need new info or mommy friends, there are probably new mommies and daddies that are in my situation with no friends, few info on baby products, and are lonely. I decided that I want my blog to be the gathering place for expat mommies and daddies to get info on products, get info on where to get more info, and connect with other expat families...and of course to overload you on Luna cuteness. (Am I being too ambitious?) We'll see how this all turns out...
So here's to my new project, my blog, and my crazy life where I am losing precious hours of sleep each night!
I decided that I don't want to make a fb page in addition to the blog so you can get yourself added to these fb pages. Not all of them are active aside from the administrator but I figure if we get more people looking to be active, these fb pages will come alive again, cuz the one I was invited to is like super busy all hours of the day and night. I'll make a blog page of links that you (as parents in Korea) might find helpful.
Go and search:
- Moms in Korea
- Seoul mom's helper
- Seoul Mama's Club
Now it's time for cuteness
This is her looking pitiful because I left her in her swing while I made food for Chris before he came home.
If you edit this picture right, this can turn into a glamour shot!
Annnnddd, it was my birthday. The big ol' 29 by anywhere-outside-of-Korea-age. It's the last one in the twenties!! ahhH!
It was my birthday so I purposely took a picture of her in that bib.. haha
She fell asleep holding her teether
And her hair is tied up! It's getting long!! She won't stay still long enough for me to take a non-blurry picture.
Luna is growing so fast!!! She already has TWO teeth coming in, she can flip onto to tummy and now onto her back, she can sit up by herself! She even moved forward the bit last night!! I'm ready to cry!!
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