Category: KnittyKnotts Family Life

1. This is me

   Posted on 7:21am Sunday 5th Mar 2017

   I've recently hit the ripe age of 34. Not an old age or one that I celebrated with dread of another year older and another year closer to death. In fact this year I've embraced my birthday. I can honestly say being in my 30s I feel much happier and confident and at one with myself. In fact I would say these are my most favourite years. I don't know if it's because I'm a mum and that given me a confidence of just being me. I know some mums like to feel more than just a mum but me i don't feel the need of being anything else but. I could also be feeling my inner peace because I just don't give a crap about the little things anymore. Life is made up of so many ups and downs you might as well just get on with it once you accept that you're already winning at life.

   I'm not going to lie, I have often looked at my life and thought I'm old before my time and totally uncool. I'm in my 30s I love to embroider, something most people frown upon when you tell them that's how you make a living its also something that you associate with nannas. I see so many embroidery instagramers who are champions at their creativeness and I wonder if they feel old before their time too. Most ladies my age have a monthly subscription to birchbox and get all these lush beauty products where they get to pamper themselves, me I get a subscription to the caravan club. I'm giving up on this ever being cool and I shall just embrace the nomadic lifestyle I lead 8 weeks of the year. One thing that I do consider cool is the ability to carry off a top knot. I can't do this and I don't even try anymore with the chimp ears, witchy nose and Bruce Forsyth chin it's just not a good look for me. I like to wear a vest too, stand down ladies I'm not talking a woolly vest so it's not that bad is it? The thing is no one likes to get cold kidneys now do they? Oh and I have a slight heart condition now so let's face it nothing screams grandma when you add all these things together!

        

   A year or so ago these things would of bothered me, wondering that people will think I'm weird because I enjoy doing all those things and now I just don't care. These are the things that make me who I am. I might not be a cool kid but I'm a mummy, who loves to stay at home or in a caravan whilst wearing a vest and sews. 

   I'm not sure what I'm trying to say other than embrace who you are, don't hide the little things that make you you. 

    

   Much as love 

   Mrs KnittyKnotts

   Xx

2. Weekly Round Up

   Posted on 7:48pm Sunday 15th Jan 2017

   What a week! It’s not been the best of weeks here but having said that it hasn’t been the worst either. It’s hard to describe how it’s left me feeling other than saying “Blurgh”.   By the time the weekend was here I was more than ready for it, only that didn’t go as swimmingly as I would have hoped, but I guess that’s what you call balance. The week started with the best of intentions. Mondays are a Mummy and Eva day and we had so much fun just playing, doing boring housework and just being at home (turns out shes pretty niffty with a steam cleaner). From Monday evening the wheels kind of fell off and it was a slippery slope from there. Basically I’ve known I’ve had Eva this week and for 2 of those days she was at Pre School. Her behaviour has been somewhat out of character especially when I use the one word 99% of toddlers hate. NO! (I know what a dickhead of a parent I am for saying the word no to a threenanger).  I will let her off to a certain degree because she has been suffering with allergies but still she’s been somewhat difficult. On the plus side Lizzie has been the perfect daughter, every cloud and all that!

     

   Anyway cut through to the weekend and the car thought it would throw a bit of a wobble just for sheer fun of it, the exhaust fall off on the way home from visiting family late Saturday night, in the dark, in the cold. I swear that car will be like a brand new car the amount of work it’s had done to it over the past 12 months.

   By the time Sunday has come round a day at home with the sister in law was just the tonic that we needed. In all the doom and gloom of the week (and the blog if I don’t stop these negative vibes) it’s been a good one too. New products have been added to the website, lots of orders have been placed but most importantly my father in law is being a model patient after having a knee replacement and is doing rather well. So all is well really.

       

   I’m hoping next week runs a little more smoothly just so that I can recover from this week.

   Muchas Love

   Mrs KnittyKnotts

   xx