How are you supposed to start a blog? I mean, I've read so many over the last 18 months, all well established, funny, full of information and somewhat addictive in the following of every day life of beautiful families.. but how the heck does it start? I guess mine is going to start like this...
I knew I wanted to start a blog when I fell pregnant with my beautiful little girl Miss E, but who would want to read about our lives. My husband thinks i'm hilarious - he loves the idea of the blog, but really has no idea about them. As I write this he is standing in our kitchen, holding Miss E laughing at his hash tag jokes, luckily for him I do find him funny (most of the time). He wants to know what the blogs going to be about... Great question I've said... I think it'll just come as I write; But I want it to be no frills - I'm sure there will be filters on my posts on instagram don't get me wrong, but I want this to be real, so that when hubby, or the family or even Miss E reads back on this they will know this is actually us. The Cliffs. The real, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious. I want to share the things we like, the things we dont, that have worked and the things that haven't.
My name is Abigail - but everyone calls me Abi or Abs.
I am Mummy to my beautiful 8 month old Miss E - my strong minded, independent , inquisitive little girl.
I am wife to my strong, smart, loving ( & averagely humoured) hubby Mr C.
I adore them both
I love to cook, I'd say my cleaning abilities could really do with some improving, I like to pretend I like the gym but I've had a gym membership for the best part of 10 years and can safely say its not high on the priorities list. My hobbies used to include reading, sleeping, baths and eating good food. These days my hobbies continue to be sleeping (but I don't really get any of it), reading (usually mumsnet or something similar) which tells me what the heck I to do with that days baby hurdle, and me time... though I haven't quite managed to make that a real hobby yet.
We all live in Sydney. I am from near London, UK. I moved here when I was 15. My hubby is also from the UK - Bolton. He moved here 5 and a bit years ago... we met here. My parents live in Queensland on the sunny Gold Coast, and Mr C's parents still live in not so sunny Bolton.
We are raising our little girl on our own, no relatives nearby. Its actually a whole lot harder than I ever thought it would be, but we are doing it... one day, one mistake and one glass of wine at a time.
I want this blog to be for us. For me. So that I can look back on it and have memories of the things I might not have remembered otherwise. Hopefully it gives me some 'me time' too. Hopefully I manage to use it as often as I want to. Please if you are reading this, try not to judge me too much on my grammar or mis-spelt words, of which i am sure there will be many.
I am going to try and make this as honest as I can, but within a certain boundary.
You would have noticed that I haven't named my daughter or my husband. That is on purpose.
This blog is mine, its is my want to record and remember... but Miss E can't give consent and I am determined to keep her privacy for as long as possible. For that reason, I also wont be posting pictures of her face. I will post pictures... but I want her to have her privacy so one day she doesn't resent me for compromising it. I am sure it'll be a task to make sure I can achieve that... but I am sure as hell going to try for as long as possible!
I guess that's it for now... I'm off to sort out the baby and get a hot large cup of coffee!
Ta Ta
Abs
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