My first post.

I'm about to start a blog. I've had so many blogs before, that I'm not that excited. For a long time i've not needed a diary. When I was younger I had countless paper diaries, then as I got older and I realised that I could force my emotions upon anyone willing to click on a livejournal link, I shunned the privacy of a paper diary and wrote every day for years within my generic LiveJournal template. Once life really started for me, I found I didn't have time for diaries and when hard times fell upon me, I felt so disloyal to my paper and electronic journals that I couldn't write anything down, it felt too... "out loud".

So, what's different now? Well, I'm a full time mum now and when I was younger I always imagined that stay-at-home-mums had blogs, made jam and cakes, had coffee afternoons with other mums, that they sewed and grew their own vegetables. My baby is 7 months old now, and I'm yet to do anything off that list... so here we are! Number one - have a Blog. I know many people would say "Oh, that's not real life. We mums don't really do such things." But, there are some mothers who do manage all of those things and I want to be one of them.

A few pledges to myself:

• I promise not to hold myself to the blog - I don't have to write if I don't want to.
  
• I promise not to censor myself within the blog. (Other than names, bank details etc)
• I promise to feel at home. If I want to post crap then I will. But at the same time...
• I promise to make an effort with my posts at least half the time.
  

I think it's also obligatory to say a little something about myself in my first post - although I already have, but for the lazy, here's a quick summary: I'm 27 (1984) and live in Oxfordshire in the UK. I live with my partner, my 7 month old son and my disabled mother. We have two dogs, a cat and four goldfish. I've worked in web-design, property, insurance, admin and I've been a PA. My new printer has just arrives, so... That's all for now folks.