Advice for a Mom Moving to a Rural Area with a 9 Month Old Daughter.

You can always check to see if there are any types of "Mommy & me" groups to join. Try checking with local daycares that take children under 1, see if they have any information.
Good luck!

When I had my dughter I didn't hang out with my friends as much. Most of them didn't have kids and they were always on the go. So I just stayed at home with my daughter and let her be my friend. I talked to her as if she were just a quiet innocent friend. Years later (about 4 years later) she is very smart and advanced. Maybe you could just spend more time being her friend if you don't have any luck finding other kids for her to play with.... Goodluck!

Go to www.momsclub.org or www.meetup.com or yahoogroups and find out if there is a moms group or playgroup in your area. Or create your own.

Good luck and have a safe trip for the move.

What an amazing opportunity for you and your daughter. The Santa Fe/Taos community is an excellent artists' community. I went to blacksmith school there for 18 months. It ws in the fall and winter when i first gotd there so the temperature change took some getting used to but we discovered skiing at angel fire nearby and my son learned to ski when he was 2 yrs old. Now i live in a major artist community in southern az. i think this is where most of the hippies from the 60's ened up , lots of old ones but many more younger ones. An artists community is like living with a great big family. everyone helps each other and they are so friendly.my husband hates it because he's a redneck and different people make him nervous but i love it and that is why we are still here after 16 yrs. There seems to be less crime in a smaller community because everyone knows everyone, just ask my son. today i found out he left school at lunch and that he came back after 15 minutes. I knew he went to the convenience store and that he bought a monster energy drink. freaks the hell out of him that i know so much. so the kids are watched over by the whole community and they know they can't get into too much trouble. the schools are smaller so they get a lot more individual attention. in our town we have a reading group at the library for preschool kids and moms so something like this would be something for you to look into to meet new moms and friends. When my son was a toddler we used to go to the park every morning and eventually a bunch of us moms would get toether at the same time and the kids would play and we would gossip. our kids are all about the same age and are in school together now they have separated into different groups but they still stop and chat on the street and sometimes they even gather at the park. so the friendships that they made as toddlers continues into their teens. A few of them have graduated and left but they still come back and visit when they are in town. so I know my son has at least 8 different moms he can go to and i have 8 different kids that congregate at my house at one time or another. just got an email form one who joined the coast guard and is in Aruba. he sent pictures and said he is coming back in a month and wants to stay at my house for a week. I see my nieces and nephews that live in the city and feel sorry for them. they are not allowed to walk the streets or much less go to a park. they have a few aquantances but that changes over the years because they go to different schools etc. nothing like the life long friends my son has made. They stay in the house and watch tv or play video games. they have to be driven everywhere. My son and his firends often camp out in the mountain behind out house. they hike and run corss country they are so much more active because they have the freedom of living in a safe small community and my son is NOT obese like my nieces and nephews. good luck and have fun.