What Happened to My Social Skills?

I am interrupting my current pumpkin mania in order to ask you all an important question…am I the only one who feels like your social skills have plummeted since having children? Maybe its a twin thing, or just a me thing…say it ain’t so!

I have noticed this alarming trend ever since I started taking the twins to playgroups, playdates, etc. In theory, these outings are supposed to benefit me just as much as them by allowing me to meet other mothers that I have things in common with and talk about something other than trucks and poo-poo for an hour or so. The problem is, I rarely get five minutes to talk to the other moms, since I am always trying to save one of the babies from falling off of something, running away, or eating UFOs (unidentified funky objects) off of the floor. But when I do get to talk to someone, it seems like the “small-talk” part of my brain is not functioning properly, or at all! I promise, it used to work just fine, so why have I become a social neanderthal?

I feel like most of the time, people I meet either leave the group (or more often, watch me leave early because one of the twins is SO OVER IT) thinking that I am either a) borderline mentally challenged, b) stuck-up, or c) just a miserable person. Really, I am none of these things, I’m just…newly socially challenged! So if we’ve met in person, I apologize. If we haven’t met yet but happen to someday, I apologize in advance. Please, give me a chance, and we could become great friends someday…maybe when my kids go off to college?