Every so often I wonder why I bother with Facebook and Twitter. I sometimes feel like it’s a pointless waste of my time. 98% of my Facebook friends don’t have babies less than a year old, although many have children of school age. I have a couple of Twitter acquaintances who have just had babies…
I was having trouble thinking of something to write about. Then I saw this Facebook update being shared, and it prompted a whole train of my own thoughts. People joke about maternity leave being one long holiday, eating cake and wandering round National Trust gardens. And yes, I do a bit of that. But there’s…
Until I had one of my own, I hadn’t really come into contact with many babies, newborn or otherwise. You go to antenatal classes, which are very useful for learning about birth, breastfeeding and general baby care. But there are lots of things you don’t find out until you’ve got your baby in front of…
There’s no chance of a longer post this week, between a grumpy baby and my lack of sleep. So here once again is a gratitude list….. things I love this week. Fancy shower gel – a couple of people bought me new mum presents of lovely smelling shower gel and bath stuff. My morning shower…
When I’m not on maternity leave, I work as a project director, managing communications projects and all the associated finances and resources. I like managing projects, but what I’m particularly drawn to is writing and photography. So it’s nice to indulge in both of those when I have time. Why do I love writing? It…
I’ve drafted a couple of longer blog posts but I don’t feel motivated to finish them. So I thought I’d write something shorter instead. These are the things on my mind right now. Being a new mum – after 3 months it’s no longer weird, and I do get sleep. But the only time I…
I now have limited spare time, and if I’m alone with my newborn baby, I rarely get to finish anything in one sitting. Meals, writing emails or text messages, thoughts, blog posts…… (ironically at this point I was interrupted…..) So this means I have to focus on a very small number of projects, not dabble…
So I had a baby four weeks ago. It’s an easy enough sentence to write, yet it encompasses so much. The moment of finding out I was pregnant. The 2 months of knowing but not telling people beyond family and a couple of friends. The following 6 months of pregnancy and its many ups and…
I’m stuck. I had grand plans to do much more blogging while I had time before the new arrival. But it seems that everything I start writing about just doesn’t work, so I’ve got quite a few half finished posts lurking around. I don’t know what it is that stopping me. Could it be lack…
I decided last week to start writing on my blog again, while I have some time between finishing work and baby arriving. However, I’ve been struggling to work out what to write about the last few days. I’ve half written two posts, but neither really came together satisfactorily. Part of that is of course because…
Slightly cheating on my “blogging every day” plan, as I drafted this a while ago but hadn’t had time to finish it. But with a bit of editing it follows on nicely from yesterday’s post about time…. A few years ago, I did a 30 day challenge in which I wrote a blog post a…
So I browsed through a couple of draft blog posts I’ve got stored. But decided against publishing them. One because it was a particularly topical one, and was no longer relevant. The other was fine, but it just wasn’t calling to me to publish it. It felt like I was forcing the subject to fit…
It’s funny what drives me to write blog posts. Sometimes it’s inspiration, sometimes it’s annoyance about something, and sometimes it’s just having too much spare time on my hands. Today it’s the latter. My first day of maternity leave, coming after a busy couple of weeks at work, finishing off reports and handing over projects…
I keep seeing updates on Facebook that this time 2 years ago I was doing Come Blog With Me, a daily blogging challenge. And I really enjoyed it. Yet now, I barely blog at all. In fact I haven’t written anything for this blog since July. I’ve posted a few creative snippets elsewhere, but even…
This morning I went for a short run by the river, something I had been meaning to do for a while. I don’t live by the river so I have to drive to get there, 8 minutes drive in fact, which sounds so close when I say it like that. But it was lovely. Exercise,…
I went to Copenhagen this week for work, and it reminded me of some of the reasons I love travel and exploring new places. I didn’t get to see much of the city on this occasion, beyond views from the plane and various taxis, but as always I spotted new ideas for places to explore…
On the 1st January, I embarked on a creative challenge. To post something every day, whether a photo, a sentence, or a doodle. I was planning to keep this up for the whole year. I even kept it up during a challenging and busy couple of months at work, posting late at night. And then…
So 2015 is about to come to an end. It was an odd one for me, starting with recovery from an operation, which took much longer than I could ever have anticipated. And when I did get back to a sense of normality, I chose to take a job for the first time in over…
This week I went to see Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love and Big Magic, being interviewed in London. I went with a group of about 15 other women, many of whom I’d met before, all of us connected in some way through Marianne Cantwell‘s courses. Liz was asked about her new book Big…
Written while on a plane, just got round to posting…. So I haven’t written a blog post in a while. Just the creative snippets which I enjoy finding in the corners of my brain. But I’ve been reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s new book “Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear” and was inspired to write a longer…
