Hey 👋🏾 thanks for joining me again, hope your all doing well. Most of our children have returned to school now, new term new challenges, progressing to the next stage of their developments.
🥰Make sure you all stay safe, keep your distance, wear your mask for your own safety not because your being forced as people are still being affected by COVID losing their loved ones keep your hands clean.
This week am going to share a little bit about me, why I started Blogging the reasoning behind the name of this site.
I was born in Jamaica, where I lived for the first 12 years of my life before migrating to England to be with my mother. While In Jamaica I was always surrounded by my family, when playing outside I was always with a cousins along with the other children on the street. The parish I lived in is call Portmore I was born in Spanish Town hospital.
I’ve always been very outspoken a huge personality, caring, I try to help others when, & if it’s possible.
Moving to England was strange I remember thinking as I stepped off the Plane ✈️ “this place is dull”, the Cold was unbearable coming from such a hot climate. Even though I arrived in June which was summer I still felt cold.
Home Sick Missing all I Knew
After being here I started to miss my friends, family school everything I knew. The food I enjoyed my way of life all my comfort, my normal. It was hard understanding the way people spoke they equally found it difficult to understand me, at that young age I had to adapt quickly as the following September I would start Year 8 at my new school.
Scared, panic frustrated was a few of the feeling I experienced on the first day of school I lived in Nottingham where attended a All girl school. Everything was new even the expectations were different I felt like I didn’t belong here. The first year of being here I kept it to myself but that was the hardest thing I had ever done in my life.
I started making friends with the children at my school I met a girl who had just came from Jamaica like me that same summer, we bonded because We were experiencing the same situation. It wasn’t hard for me to make friends I became very popular. I soon had many friends I am still in contact with some of my friends now our relationships are stronger than ever being friends all those years tends to have that effect.
Present Day
The purpose of my blog, as a parent there are so many expectations on how we are supposed to behave, everyone has an opinion on how we should raise our children. However when we buy a piece of furniture from the shop we’re normally pleasantly surprised ( NOT) with this Instruction manual or leaflet.
There’s NONE with parenting, so I wanted to remind everyone that you are doing a good job remind you all that it’s okay to mess up as long as your there, doing your best, doing right by your children. They don’t care if we look amazing everyday if we cry sometimes. As long as we show them affection, be there every set of the way fundamentally that’s all our children desire.
A space for me to share our ups, downs, highs, lows, where other parents can speak feeling free to seek advice and share advice to grow a community with parents who aren’t perfect just DOING THEIR BEST.
When you read my blogs I want you to grab a cup of Coffee, tea or whatever beverage you choose. Relax unwind take the weight off your feet, I wanted the readers of my blogs to benefit from discounts as-well as gain advice while getting to know me & my children.
No Shades I keep It 100%
The reason I keep myself transparent is so that the people I care about feels safe knowing am trustworthy, this transparency has split out in my blogs which is amazing as you can get to know me, taking away the mask connecting personally sharing my thoughts experiences even if they are painful healing with you all, hoping am helping others to heal from their traumas past or present.
A safe space to speak about my mental ill health, my babies sickle cell, while sharing my interest with everyone who reads my blog.
Everything I do involves my family that’s my business. This new venture into influencer, blogger is to provide financial freedom for me and my children, while having the time to get to my daughters hospital appointments while still having time to work on me & my mental health.
A platform where I can share homeschooling tips along with our branded items working alongside my children while providing a better life.
Where my shoppers and readers can keep up to date with the improvements that their support gives to my babies.
How your supporting our small business helps me with transport for hospital appointments, buying new furniture, over time me being able to take my kids on holiday. Am a single mother of three beautiful children, yes it’s hard but it’s worth it after closing my first organisation I will be putting all that I’ve learnt as a support worker, mentor and life coach into my blogs & everything I do I want to help others with each blog I write even if it’s just to make you smile.
I don’t believe in short cuts in life, things can get hard but it’s up to us how it ends. No one makes us have a bad day we choose to allow the situation to affect the rest of our day.
This is a space for us all to feel safe I started writing because I wanted to share what I know what I’ve been through. Help find a release when am feeling low mentally, suffering from depression, anxiety is something that comes with schizophrenia so I wanted to find a positive distraction somewhere to say what I feel how I feel with no caps or filter.
To be able to share my daughters story, how we live with sickle cell disease & not hide or be ashamed to cry.
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Ps “You are enough” xoxo 💋
Motherhood No Instructions 