Hello!
Logging into this blog after an extended leave feels like finally
meeting an old friend when life has got in the way and you’ve had to reschedule
more times than you would want to admit! So much has happened, yet you pick up
right where you left off!
If you are one of my old followers who happens to stumble across
this – it is so good to see you! How are you?
While being absent from this blog and YouTube I have still
been posting on Instagram – mainly life and family, which keeps me busy! Please
do come and say Hi @natalyafgm!
As a very brief life update of the last 3 years… After
moving and refurbishing our new house I finished redecorating pretty speedily
in preparation for our new arrival. Though I feel like the house needs an
update already due to its intensive use! I had my son Joshua in January 2017. We
had a tough first year following a long (73 hours!) complicated birth, colic,
recurrent mastitis and 15 months of intense sleep deprivation, but he is wonderful
- intelligent, sensitive, fun, cheeky
and the absolute love of my life! Maxie is now 11- he has had a few tummy
issues, but is doing well and has been the most patient big (cat) brother we
could have hoped for! I went back to work full time in Jan 2018 and have been
doing my best to balance the spinning plates of toddler, career, childcare,
home, husband, friends, family... the list seems endless. I rarely feel like I
have the right balance, but I know where my priorities are.
I would love to find the time to blog again as a creative
outlet for myself, but with working full time and keeping a toddler entertained
often any energy I have left after the intense negotiation that is ‘bedtime’ is
just enough to watch an episode of Love Island (or Netflix or any other reality
TV rubbish that doesn’t involve any brain engagement)!
My interests have also changed, which I think is natural now
being at a different stage in my life. Do you still read blogs? What are you
interested in? I still love beauty, but it’s a much smaller part of my world
and has become pretty routine and time efficient. My main priorities at the moment
are health (especially in terms of fertility, which has been a really difficult
journey for us), toddler behaviour/ nutrition/development/activities and still
having a little fun thrown in so I am not a slave to the routine - which can be
beauty, fashion, self-care, fitness, food, fun places to visit.
I have shared so much over the years and feel like it would
be nice to speak to you all in my former little corner of the internet! Is
there anything in particular that you would find interesting?
Speak to you soon
my lovelies! xxx
