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A New Start?

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I guess I should start by wishing you all a belated happy new year…. although one week in to 2016 and I am starting to feel surfeited by all the new year-new start sentiments flying around in every direction. But then perhaps I am just tired and grumpy at the moment!

I have been away for so long from the blog that for a little while there I really wasn’t sure I was actually going to come back to this space. As usual I spent some time going back over the last year or two and reading the memories I have stored up here and once again I have reminded myself why I do keep rambling away. I do not often enough go back to remember what I have posted and while I love crochet, enjoy posting about it and am grateful for the response it gains…. ultimately it is my family posts I love the most. The posts where I am truly rambling about our mini adventures or just our every days, they are the ones that keep me persevering with this.

I struggle a bit though as these days it seems not many people blog like this anymore, just for memory keeping purposes. It is ever increasingly about reviews and sponsored posts, website traffic and social media stats, and creating a revenue. I am torn by this as I understand it and see the potential, we are a low wage one-income family and I do need to think about earning a little to top us up, but I don’t want to lose that personal diary aspect that I love looking back on.

So here I am in 2016 giving myself another year of blogging. I don’t know if I would designate it a new start but I will say that I expect to see some changes around here as I try to balance writing more often my rambling family posts alongside branching out of my comfort zone and working on some new things to grow the blog and earn a little needed side money for my family.

There will of course still be crochet. There is always crochet. <3

Naomi-16

Five Fact Friday

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Baby & Me

1. Time for blogging is something I am still not finding as much of as I would like to, the little people in my life demand most of it. I am working on finding more hours in my week but in the mean time do come and find me on various social media! You can find my follow buttons in the side bar on the right (or scroll down to the bottom if you are on a mobile…). I am also now on Bloglovin’ so do please come follow me there too!

2. I am definitely going to be dairy free for the long haul. Yesterday was the day of our food challenge… e.g. I had milk and cheese… the last 24 hours have been tough for my poor little guy… and no picnic for me! I wish I had savoured the moment of what may have been my last cheese for 12 months.

Emma Gardening

3. We are finally able to enjoy our little garden again. Our neighbours have recently moved, taking their 5 cats with them which means our garden is no longer a litter tray for them(!). Vince has spent much time clearing, weeding and generally making it a nice place to be again. Emma has also dived into gardening and planted up our window box with only a little help from daddy.

Garden fun

4. Talking of Emma… I love her talking. She talks often, usually loudly and at speed, which can sometimes be a little wearing but mostly I find myself marvelling at the conversations I can have with my little girl now. The development of language is truly an amazing gift to thank God for. But despite how many times a day I wonder where she learnt a new word or meaning she still has certain toddler-isms that crack me up. My current favourite when she is tired or too excited is her confusion between ‘outside’ and ‘back garden’, I have often been asked this week if we can go “back side”. I’m afraid it’s the child in me that finds this so amusing. Ha!

family at the zoo

5. We went on a family day out to the zoo! I had been feeling anxious about this trip, I was fairly convinced that it was going to be a more stress than fun with a 7 week old baby that still wants to nurse every 2-3 hours and protests loudly if he can’t. Happily we went anyway, Matthew was absolutely fine and we all had a really lovely day together. Thank goodness for stretchy wraps that keep babies content and asleep!

Have a lovely weekend!

Naomi x2