I have live interstate without family and not using daycare, so my kids have grown up with out EVER been baby sat BHL and I have NEVER been anywhere without the kids...

We move to where family are and still nothing has changed, so in that respect if we had to move interstate again I know we cope nicely on our own...

Having also moved more time than I like to admit to ( with more to come ) I have to say I ALWAY find it very very hard to break into the circle of mums... I am a SAHM so I am there everyday to pick up my kids, we have been here almost a year and still have not met any friends not one talks, it can be very dishearting but I have learned not to expect much and to be happy with my little family, as at the end of the day they are my world....

The hardest part is when you have to enrole you kids into school and they ask for numbers of people they can contate if they cant get you... they are never happy when I tell them there is no one just me and BHL if he is home... I was even told by a kindy teacher last year that, that wasnt good enough and that I would have to make friends fast so that they can be the IOE contate... Opps never did that, I was so upset to as for the first time ever I actully had name to put down ( my parents ) but been that they were 1.5 hr drive away she didnt think they were good enough...

sorry bit of topic but just saying that even without a village I am coping ok...