Question

Many of you out there reading this blog are moms, so I would love your answer to this question:
(mom i already know your answer)

When a new sister moves into your ward, who doesn't have kids and isn't pregnant, is your first thought... "oh look a new babysitter"?

I ask, because I have now been asked to babysit 3 times now. The last conversation went as followed:
Me: Hello
Sister Black: Is this Hillary?
Me: Yes...
Sister Black: Hi Hillary this is Sister Black from your ward. Do you have any kids?
Me: Nope.
Sister Black: I am having lunch with a few ladies from the ward and was wondering if you could watch my kids for a few hours next Thursday.

Like i have said, i have been asked this a few times now, I have been asked to watch their kids while they go to the Relief Society Meeting, having a lunch date with other moms in the ward, meet their husbands for lunch, and the list goes on. Some of these activities are things I should be going to, like the Relief Society Meetings! I think the other thing that urks me, is when they are going to hang out with other ladies in the ward. Heaven forbid that the new girl would like to make new friends with the women in the ward. Nope instead of getting asked to lunch, she gets asked to babysit. Yeppee!

Now I know many of you will say that I need to make an effort. Well I have and continue to try and make new friends, go to the RS Book Club, invite people over for lunch, or shopping, really anything i can think. Somehow nothing has changed. My Visiting Teaching Companion said that for her it didn't change until she had her first child thats when she was invited into what she called "The Mommy Group".

Now again, I would also like to point out, that our Bishop has said we are one of the ONLY couples in the ward that does not have kids and is not pregnant. We also, this last Sunday started a FOURTH nursery!

Anywho, I could go on and keep venting but I think I will end there. I really am trying to fit into my new ward, and I understand it doesn't happen over night and that every ward will have clicks or weird quirks. But that still doesn't mean it doesn't suck in the meantime.