A relatively boring day....

J began the first day of his new routine today which was mainly being put to bed slightly later. T and I knew it was coming for a while as when he was put into bed at 7pm he would chatter and play in bed until long after 7:30 and while he was not misbehaving we both knew it was because he didn't need to be in bed that early anymore! This brought a bit of a sigh from me as the evening is my time, I am a morning person and often up long before anyone else (6am) and spend all day being active as I simply hate sitting around doing nothing. Therefore as of about 6pm I've had enough, my patience is thinner and overall I want to just sit and do nothing until I wander up to bed at about 9:30/10pm. T and I decided last night we should push J's bedtime back to 7:30 and shift his daily routine by about half an hour. 

J woke slightly earlier than usual (typical on the first day of a later bedtime!) and I've started to let him prepare some of his food/drink independently. So he made his own drink of milk and helped to butter his toast and put pate on it (his favourite breakfast which he wants pretty much everyday!) and then while he went out for a wander with T I got 45mins reading done for my course starting in Sept. Then I went off to my pilates class.

Pilates is my stress release and also my hobby I suppose you could say. I have only been doing it for a year or so and now attend two classes a week. I love the drive it gives me to push myself to work harder, hold a position for longer and see the progression in myself. I won't lie I like the fact that I am pretty good at it too otherwise I'm quite sure I wouldn't have kept going! 

After class we all had lunch together and then I took J off to his friends house for a play date which went reasonably well - a few tears, disagreements a small tantrum on leaving and one wee accident is actually quite a success! On the way home I knew he was tired and so we did dinner - homemade sweet and sour noodles with prawns and veg - and then a little TV before bath and bed. Funnily enough he went straight to sleep! We then settled down for a relaxing time in front of the TV only to be treated with a power cut.  We suddenly realise how little in the evening we spend talking to each other, we just sit together and watch something or T will play the ps4 and I will roam about on the Internet. After initial jokes about of oh no now we have to talk to each other and fancy a game of chess it was quite nice to actually talk to each other without being interrupted every other sentence by J. After a relatively short amount of time power was restored and funnily enough ever since we have assumed our normal positions of gaming and internetting!

So yes a relatively boring day today I suppose really, I'm sure that trend won't last long though! Not with J around! I must start putting pictures in my posts.....I'll work on that tomorrow! 

Night folks,

A xxx

Hello's and Intro's

Hello to you!

Let me introduce myself to any of you fortunate/unfortunate enough to have discovered this blog. I'm not entirely sure which direction it will end up going in but that's half the fun I'm sure! So to start off I am in my late twenties and a mummy to a young male by the name of J, J's dad ('T')  and I have been together for 6 years and engaged for the last 4. I love pilates, baking, nutrition, home cooked food and organising - I know I like to live a life on the edge! We live in the South East of England in a lovely little village not too far from the town for conscience but far enough away to enjoy the rural countryside.

I am lucky to have met some amazing friends along the way to whome I am very close and are an important part of my life both as a mum and also just as me. Trust me the 'me' gets lost when you have a child, you become 'so and so's mum' and sometimes you forget you once were someone else entirely! J is at that age (currently 3 1/2 years old) when everyone starts asking when you will be having another and in all honesty I don't know!

My son is a ball of never ending energy. He is  always on the go, into and doing everything, wants to know about everything and anything and loves being outside generally running about like crazy. He literally wakes up and does not stop until he goes to bed! It is draining, it is non stop, it is loud, it is motherhood and daily life for me.

T left his job earlier this year and he decided to finally take the plunge he's always considered into teacher training. This then re inspired me to return to my teacher training (I was on the course when I fell pregnant back in 2011) so both of us are returning to education in September after completing our degrees more than 6 years ago and I therefore am also retuning to work after being a stay home mum since my son was born. T will be doing his course full time in one year whereas I am going to do mine part time over two years as J is only little still really and in my eyes he still needs me lots! We are therefore amidst a period of huge change in our household and it is coming with a mixture of emotions for me ranging from scary to exciting to even guilt about starting to leave J for longer periods of time when it is not essential for me to be returning to work but right now lI feel I need to start being me again now, at least on a part time basis, not just J's mum.

So that's a little intro into our life as it currently stands, as I said I am not sure where this will end up going but please stick around and wait and see!! I intend this to be a honest blog so over time aspects of myself and my life will be revealed and it is only to give a true account of my life not to cause offence or upset. I would go into further detail now but I think this has quite simply been long enough!

Thank you for getting this far and please feel free to comment with anything you fancy - positive criticisms always welcome, I am used to them having a 3 yr old trust me!

A xx
(J's mum, fiancée, friend, sister, daughter, about to be teacher)