When I finished my A levels I’d applied to university but decided I wasn’t going to go and deferred my place, so I got a job. I worked in investments at a building society and thought I’d love the 9-5 office life. I was wrong, I hated it and when I got the letter saying my place was waiting for me to do a BSC (hons) in Psychology I couldn’t get out of the door fast enough. Financially, uni was going to be a struggle - but I thought I could make it work. So I started uni and got a part time job at a local nursery. That’s where I found my passion. Working with little ones, specifically focusing on early childhood development in my research. So it made sense that my career choice was the early years. I then took a massive leap and got a job in a nursery as a deputy manager 50 miles away and it’s there I really got given the chance. I stayed there for 10 years and in that 10 years became the manager of 5 settings and Operations Director. I also went to uni and did a post grad qualification in 2007 getting my Early Years Professional status. I was sent to Denmark on behalf of the local early years department and spent a week researching Scandinavian childcare, and loved it! It really influenced my philosophy towards early years education and what we are offering our little ones. I never really considered having children of my own, I was so driven by success in my career. Then Rich and I got married and we decided we did want children. I fell pregnant and couldn’t get my head around how I could give everything to my baby and my career, something had to give. So I made the toughest decision to put my career on hold and be a stay at home Mummy. So here I am with all this knowledge and experience about young children and now I had one of my own. This is where the desire to write started. I couldn’t believe how different being a professional in the early years was to being a parent with children in the early years. My views, my opinions and what I wanted to do has changed so much. The social well being of my children is the biggest priority to me. I believe if I can give my children self worth, confidence and the ability to like the people that they are, all the learning they have to do will follow naturally. The whole nature of my blog is that I have things I’d like to say, it’s almost therapeutic, it gives me a bit of purpose and it’s lovely that on the most awful days that other people can say ‘I know how you feel’, that we can all see the funny side and that being a parent is really, really hard and none of us are perfect but it doesn’t stop us trying.