Introduction to this blog

Hello everyone,

This is the first time I have ever written a blog and I'm unsure if I really want to do this.  I'm going ahead though as this is an idea that has been knocking around ever since my daughter Poppy was born 3 months ago.  Whilst breastfeeding is a wonderful thing, it is also quite boring.  I spend 10mins every 3-4 hours throughout the night and early hours of the morning with a baby attached to my breast and my mind wanders.  Around 4am every morning whilst Poppy is filling her tiny stomach with milk, I keep writing the most amazing, funny and insightful blog posts in my head.  This my attempt to get some of those thoughts down, with the intention of creating an official record that I can look back on with fond memories when Poppy is a stroppy teenager and I need to remember a time when she was fun!  See, already I have failed!  Poppy is often stroppy now, so the main purpose of the blog is a failure.  

In my head at 4am the posts are brilliant - I apologise now for the reality that when I can actually get the time to write it isn't actually that great.

The reasons I'm unsure if I actually want to do this is because I'm not sure if I agree with the whole concept of blogs.  When I was a kid everyone would put a diary on their Christmas list and it had to be one you could lock.  My big brother made the mistake of getting one without a lock and whilst he made efforts to hide it, I always found it and enjoyed reading his inner most thoughts, (sorry Mark, but you really should have hid it better).  He wrote how he felt, unlike me who's typical diary entry was as follows: "Today I rode my bike to the shops and bought a blue Mr Freeze ice pop.  In the afternoon I got really bored and then I watched TV and went to bed".  My diary had a lock, but quite frankly if anyone bothered to break the lock to read it they would have been deeply disappointed.  My point is, once upon a time, people made great efforts to keep their diaries private.  Now, people post them on the web for the entire world to see.  It seems very vain.  Despite this, I'm embracing my inner vanity and have created this blog.  I promise it will get better.

To set the scene, I should explain I am currently on maternity leave from my job as Insight Manager for a Music TV company.  When working I commute into London.  Now, I stay at home looking after my daughter Poppy, born in October 2010.  I have gone from seeing and talking to friends and colleagues every day to spending all day with a girl who is unable to walk, crawl or talk.  It is very different.  This blog will be about my experiences of being a new, stay at home month in the year, (hopefully), that I have away from my job in London.

If anyone is reading this I hope you enjoy it.  Feel free to give me feedback, ask questions or suggest topics I could talk about.

Stayed tuned - my 1st blog entry, (excluding this one), will be every new mums favourite subject: The Birth Story.  (It's a good one).