Gains and Losses

A few months ago a new family moved into our ward, a family with four adorable kids and two close enough to Jasmine's age to play. I was so excited to gain a new friend, and I invited her out to the library story time.

After talking with her once, even though her kids were kind of going nutso, I knew we would be friends. She was so down to earth, has the same "contain the crazy" parenting style that I have, and was so easy to talk to. We set up a day to have another play-date and I was so happy to have another friend for Jasmine to play with.

I can't remember specifics, but pretty much every other time we'd set up a play-date something would happen - sick babies, rain on a park day, life - and we'd have to cancel. Then the Open Gym we'd go to together got too expensive for me, I picked up 15 more hours a week of work including during story time, and winter made it impossible to meet up at the park, and with everything combined we just... stopped hanging out. I'd see her at church and chat for a minute, mention something about meeting up at the park again, hope it would actually happen, and then inevitably go back to not hanging out. Not on purpose, just stopped.

I've been so busy lately that I hadn't reached out to her in a while, but I still had intentions of doing someething. Now that it's spring I thought maybe the park or going on walks would be nice. What mom doesn't want an excuse to get her kids out of her house, right?

Well, fastforward to a week ago and I made a general post on Facebook asking about the black face mask people have been raving about. This mom mentioned that she had a few samples and she'd bring them by. I thanked her and sent her a message with my address. Her responses were short but I just assumed she was busy and didn't think much of it. After she dropped the samples off (I was gone and she left them beneath the doormat), I wrote her a message asking if she'd like to go on walks with me sometime, with or without kids. I made it super friendly and thanked her for the samples again.

A week has gone by and she hasn't responded. She's seen it. Just not responded.

I don't know what to read into it. Did I do something wrong? Did I offend her by not following up enough on asking to do stuff together?

If I were a normal stay at home mom with a more open schedule and no work obligations, there are so many things that would be different, and sometimes I wonder if I would have more friends.