I will tell you who is annoying? Me! I am annoying because I could not find time to get this blog post up before Christmas, like I said I would in my previous blog post and on instagram. How rude!

I can tell you, I wasn’t just sitting around all day watching Keeping up with the Kardashians (though I am currently up to date with the season #guiltypleasure) I was busy dealing with a nit situation in my house hold! Is that embarrassing to say out loud? Well, I am a very honest person and that is legit how my Christmas eve was spent, at the kids hair salon and doing washing upon washing of bed linen and garments. My current fragrance of choice, is clearly ‘Fluffy summer breeze’.

On a chirpier note, I had a beautiful Christmas this year, despite, it not feeling like Christmas at all until that very day. The kids loved every second, from 5:30am right through til’ 10pm-no-daytime-sleep-holy-crap. I was quite spoilt with a little Chanel here, Valentino there and a whole lotta stuff that I actually needed for my kitchen.

Most of all, I loved being with my family, not many of you know that this year was a hard year for me personally, my anxiety took me on a not so fun journey,  but with a click of my fingers (ala, a trip to Noosa with family) I came back brand new, an unexplained cleansing of the mind, I learned to put my worries into perspective and I feel really happy. I think perspective played a big role in this, for me, I learnt to ask for help when I needed, to tend to my kids first all day and tend to that dead line when they are asleep, get a nanny in every now and then to help out where possible, clean up when I see mess and not let it build up into one huge job, communicate better to my husband and get off my darn phone when the kids are around me and give them the attention they deserve. I had so much going on and so much on my shoulders (work, life, house, dinner, kids, mess, events, husband, me) that I couldn’t cope and it was easier for me to worry about something else (usually my health) than to worry or deal with all the chaos that I actually had going on.

This is what I will share with you, because, from what I know through what friends have told me recently, is that some social media followers are struggling with themselves, they are struggling because they see what other’s have, what others can afford, what they wear, how pretty or skinny that chick is, how they are in a ‘perfect’ relationship with their partner and how easy other mothers seem to be juggling motherhood or how much weight that mum lost after having their child.

Let me tell you one thing that I know. Most of this isnt real, it is a few photos, one second captured by usually the annoyed husband. That skinny mum of two kids lost the last bit of her baby weight (and then some) by running a marathon each day in her mind and if you told her she was so skinny, it would trigger it again because she thinks she is sick (insert emoji with girl hand up). You know that super pretty chick? well maybe she has insecurities just like you too and maybe just maybe, behind that lens to the left is a screaming child and loads of concealer under the mum’s eyes to hide that sleepless night she just had.

Remind yourself that Christmas time and this time away from work (if you are so lucky) is about remembering who you are, who you really are, where you came from and who will be there loving you and supporting you and calling you beautiful for the rest of your life. Everything else, those little tiffs with mates or worrying about what she/he/you said to whoever or what you do or don’t have, actually, doesn’t matter! Its all just stuff and won’t matter in the future.

Trust me, don’t waste your time worrying, because you will miss the most beautiful and special moments in life. xox Merry Christmas friends xox