Girl drama with WOMEN!

I’m in my early 30’s, I’m a mom, and I don’t have time to deal with girl drama. However, I can sense it brewing in my small circle of friends. I’m not sure what to do about it, and I need some advice.

There are four of us. I’m the oldest and the only one with kids. I sort of feel like the “old wise one”...everyone feels that they can just dump on me and spill the tea. I like listening. I like giving advice, but it’s starting to be gossip between the girls and I’m uncomfortable .

One girl is about my age and is my neighbor. I grew closest to her first, but she is super...flaky. She doesn’t hang out with the group as much, and is our drama queen of the group at the same time. I love her quirkiness, but the others don’t.

The youngest girl in our group has no filter. She says things and can be judgmental about things, but it doesn’t bother me as a 30 year old.

Then there is another lady, who always sides with the younger girl. She doesn’t like the quirky friend either.

If I go on a walk, for example, with the quirky girl that is my age, I can tell the other girls get annoyed. But when I walk with the quirky girl, she is talking about how annoyed she is with the younger girl. There are things that quirky girl says that I don’t agree with, but I don’t say anything.

Ahh! I can’t even. I see everyone’s side, and I just want a friendship. I like having a little girl time to escape my kids for a bit, but girl drama is just not worth it to me. I don’t have time. Now I am feeling like I’m stuck in the middle and I don’t want to hurt anyone. I like them all in different ways.

When we go on walks, for example, the youngest girl always invites all of us. Quirky girl today randomly invited me, we went walking, and then decided to tell our group that we went walking. ☹️ Like, why? It’s a stupid walk, but now I feel like I went behind the others girls back.

What should I do?