Yes yes…. it has been a while!!
When I started this blog back in the summer I promised myself that I would write often, not just for the sake of it but often. Turns out life had other plans. Nothing really bad happened but it was just a difficult time probably more emotionally than anything.
We were in the middle of building our house, three kids and living with my MIL. I was approaching the end of maternity leave- this made me feel anxious because I was leaving my baby but also in a way I was craving the normality of work……. this however would be short lived considering I was to return at the end of June. We decided very early July that we would try to rent somewhere until our house was finished. As it turned out my uncles house became available and we moved there. As you can imagine all of this while caring for three young children was pretty difficult, not to mention trying to choose things for a house and ensure we were in the house ASAP.
Anyway…. fast forward to now and things are somewhat different. We are in our house and have been since December. It was the busiest time! We moved on the 22nd December, we like a challenge!!! Moving coupled with getting ready for Christmas was just something else! We (hubby and I) were in the town on Monday buying a Christmas tree and getting everything else we needed for Christmas. We did it though and were so glad we did. We were advised by so many people not to move in before Christmas, that we were ‘mad’, that after Christmas wouldn’t change much etc etc. You get my point but honestly we never regretted it for a second. Once we were in that was it. Yes, it wasn’t finished but it was ours. And actually after Christmas when work resumed we got so much done and very quickly. Now it is just home and we all love it.
We have been in our house three months now and it is unbleievable the situation we are living in now. It is difficult times and something that you could never have imagined but here we are trying to navigate our way through the madness. We as a family just try to keep things as ‘normal’ as possible for the kids. A lot of people are talking about home schooling and things to keep the kids occupied. Our days vary, I am not one for strict routine anyway, each to their own and one must do what suits their family. The days may not be routine but we still do school work (with Darcey), arts and crafts, a walk (just down our lane) and reading. The kids will also watch TV, their iPads and play. This week we also baked banana bread and they really enjoyed this, I suppose it was something very different as in the normal run of things I haven’t time to do this. Sounds awful but its true! I suppose through all of the pandemonium we will have to look back and think about all the happy times during this.
I have to say thats why instagram and this blog is something that I am so glad I began as there is so much positivity and a real community feeling on here and extraordinary people who live through so many difficult times and are doing their very best every day. I was thinking yesterday how glad I was that I could log on to my fashion account on instagram and chat to like minded people and not feel judged or under pressure. I find I can totally be myself as I am what I am and nobody expects anything different. When people who ‘know me’ in my personal life, follow my blog, in the beginning, I used to have anxiety but now I just think what odds, I am who I am, I will take fashion pics and interior pics (the odd time) and if they don’t like it they know what to do!!
At the risk of sounding cliche, I hope over the next while we all have the opportunity to reconnect with our families, enjoy time in our homes, bake, read, watch movies, cook nice meals, enjoy our children, play and of course look after ourselves in whatever way we can and whatever way gets us through the next few weeks.
It is so important to #staysafe #stayhome and get through this!!!! We can do it!!!
Thanks for reading (my next blog post will be about fashion I promise!!!!)
K xxx
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