Yup we are now FOUR!!!
So as I wrote two years ago in We've had a baby - I don't like to post to the world about being pregnant due to unfortunate past experiences.
However, I have secretly been baking another cookie throughout 2014 and we were thrilled to welcome our new little bear to our family on the 1st of March 2015.
He's beautiful and perfect and we are over the moon - feeling truly blessed and in awe at the miracle of life!!
However, this got me thinking that I'm likely to have even less time to blog....as wrestling Monkey #1 and now new baby keeps a person busy with a capital B!!
But, I do enjoy blogging and now more than ever - working full time as a Head of Operations aka 'A Mum' it's important to have an outlet outside work other than chocolate....but reconciling the two has proven a challenge the last two years....in 2014 I managed 3 posts :-(
You see these last years I've really tried to continue on the original focus of the blog.
When I originally started it was as a young care-free working professional, just the two of us....enjoying an adult life in Dubai...travelling, sports, night life - the full seasonal events calendar out and about all the time...it was easy to provide restaurant and activity reviews because that was our life.
That has now changed.
It's funny because as you plan the impending birth of your first child you tell yourself that things won't really change that much...Your exciting life will be the same you'll just have a baby in tow!.....
I hear childless and and 1st time expectant friends say the same now "Baby fits in with our life" at which point I spit out whatever I'm drinking (usually mineral water these days) and roll about the floor laughing!!!....because this used to be me.
Then you actually have a baby and BAM!!
Your world is rocked to the core....It's love on a whole new level...and the overwhelming sense of responsibility for another human life....changes you, your relationships and every aspect of your life.
As a woman I felt this huge societal pressure to have a baby, get back in shape and continue with my super busy, traveling, socializing, grown up life....plus maybe become a mumentrepreneur in my spare time! (rofl x100!)
There comes a point... somewhere in a sleep deprived haze when you realize it's just not feasible to live that life anymore and actually you'd quite like to be in your Pj's by 8pm rather than quaffing cocktails at the latest hot spot anyway.
Accpecting this has actually been a great relief for me...as with most things involved with having a baby you have to accept that it's a phase in life and won't be forever and one should enjoy where you are at right now....and embrace the change rather than resist it!!
So that means for me to post more often the focus of the blog has to change too..... Sorry, I can't do travel, brunch and dinner reviews anymore as if we get out twice a year we're lucky!
I'm going to have to make the content more relevant to what I'm actually doing these days...and focus on family centric activities.
From now on reviews will be of breakfast places, soft play area's, afternoon tea's and only dinners at restaurants that have a 5pm seating!
That's just were I'm at in this wonderful journey I'm on called parenting...I really hope you'll stick around and still enjoy reading.
So as I wrote two years ago in We've had a baby - I don't like to post to the world about being pregnant due to unfortunate past experiences.
However, I have secretly been baking another cookie throughout 2014 and we were thrilled to welcome our new little bear to our family on the 1st of March 2015.
He's beautiful and perfect and we are over the moon - feeling truly blessed and in awe at the miracle of life!!
However, this got me thinking that I'm likely to have even less time to blog....as wrestling Monkey #1 and now new baby keeps a person busy with a capital B!!
But, I do enjoy blogging and now more than ever - working full time as a Head of Operations aka 'A Mum' it's important to have an outlet outside work other than chocolate....but reconciling the two has proven a challenge the last two years....in 2014 I managed 3 posts :-(
You see these last years I've really tried to continue on the original focus of the blog.
When I originally started it was as a young care-free working professional, just the two of us....enjoying an adult life in Dubai...travelling, sports, night life - the full seasonal events calendar out and about all the time...it was easy to provide restaurant and activity reviews because that was our life.
That has now changed.
It's funny because as you plan the impending birth of your first child you tell yourself that things won't really change that much...Your exciting life will be the same you'll just have a baby in tow!.....
I hear childless and and 1st time expectant friends say the same now "Baby fits in with our life" at which point I spit out whatever I'm drinking (usually mineral water these days) and roll about the floor laughing!!!....because this used to be me.
Then you actually have a baby and BAM!!
Your world is rocked to the core....It's love on a whole new level...and the overwhelming sense of responsibility for another human life....changes you, your relationships and every aspect of your life.
As a woman I felt this huge societal pressure to have a baby, get back in shape and continue with my super busy, traveling, socializing, grown up life....plus maybe become a mumentrepreneur in my spare time! (rofl x100!)
There comes a point... somewhere in a sleep deprived haze when you realize it's just not feasible to live that life anymore and actually you'd quite like to be in your Pj's by 8pm rather than quaffing cocktails at the latest hot spot anyway.
Accpecting this has actually been a great relief for me...as with most things involved with having a baby you have to accept that it's a phase in life and won't be forever and one should enjoy where you are at right now....and embrace the change rather than resist it!!
So that means for me to post more often the focus of the blog has to change too..... Sorry, I can't do travel, brunch and dinner reviews anymore as if we get out twice a year we're lucky!
I'm going to have to make the content more relevant to what I'm actually doing these days...and focus on family centric activities.
From now on reviews will be of breakfast places, soft play area's, afternoon tea's and only dinners at restaurants that have a 5pm seating!
That's just were I'm at in this wonderful journey I'm on called parenting...I really hope you'll stick around and still enjoy reading.
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