What I Wore Wednesday

Just a quick post for Transatlantic Blonde's What I Wore Wednesday.
Excuse the bad quality of the image, it's not actually the photo! It is my slightly smeary mirror... whoops! :)

Dress - H&M

Cardi - Newlook

Vest - Peacocks

Tights - M and Co

Belt - H&M

Boots - Newlook

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Ive not forgotten.

I just wanted to let everyone know that I havent forgotten about blogging! It has just been toward the back of my mind, but I promise I'll be back on the ball soon and Tales of a Young Mummy will be bigger and better than ever before!
Also, if anyone has any stories that they want to tell about their experiences just email them to me on elle@talesofayoungmummy.com as I will be doing a feature in the near future!
Much love,
Young Mummy xxx

50 Shades of Grey

No, I don't mean the book.
I was just checking my feeds when I saw a post from MMM and thought I just had to share this picture with you guys. I absolutely adore Interior Design, and how amazing would it be to have a playroom/bedroom for the little ones? I really do adore the play beds that you can get, with the slides and tents, but they are just so expensive! One day Willow will have one!



That's all for now, I will post properly later, I promise!

Much love,
Young Mummy xxxx

#youngmumschat

This Wednesday is another live Twitter chat thanks to Prymface, at 8.30 GMT. For the chat we will be using the hashtag #youngmumschat. Last week was a brilliant chat, and this week I am asking some of the questions along with Giggles and Tickles.

I wrote a post for Giggles and Tickles, it's again about my life over the past year and discovering I was pregnant. It can be found here Giggles and Tickles .

Love Young Mummy xxx

Scary!

University is a scary prospect, especially when you're a parent - how will you manage to put all the hours of study in while still looking after your little monkey? As many of you may know, I want to make it work; life won't get the better of me and I will get through a degree.

However, before I am able to do so, I need to actually get onto a uni course. I am looking at Interior Design courses, as I have always had a great interest in 'designing' rooms - I say it like that as when I was younger my idea of designing was scouring the Argos catalouge for pictures of furniture and decorations that I liked. I have to admit, I do still do this now! When my parents were ever wanting anything from Argos they would just ask me and I would find it in the catalouge in a flash, I was the Argos Queen!

Before I had Willow, I used to dream about going to the University of Massachusets, and in my head it was a reality but unfortunately becoming a parent changes your plans. Now, I am limited to the choice of 3 unis: Portsmouth, Southampton and Southampton Solent, just because of the fact that I don't want to move away from home and the brilliant support network I have here, not just yet.

If I could, I would love to go to Richmond University, I don't know why. I think I just love the idea of a degree that is acceptable both here, and in the US, 'cause you never know, I might just move to the US one day...

Open days are fast approaching for the uni's that I want to look at, which is very scary. I'm so far planned to go to three open days, so I will report back on how those go.

Much Love,
Young Mummy xxx

What I Never Expected When Expecting

As regular readers will know, I didn't have the longest of pregnancies, in fact it was only three week long. No, my chile was not a miracle baby and didn't survive being born as a fetus. Nope, that wasn't it - I didn't find out that I was pregnant until six weeks before baby was due.

Three weeks down the line I found myself laid in a hospital bed looking at my gorgeous little doll - it didn't seem real. It's incredible how life-changing giving birth can be. One minute you're thinking about babies and nothing seems like a reality, the next moment you are a parent.

Here's the four things I didn't expect when I was expecting:

1. Under the ribs pains
2. Stretch marks - my poor beautiful bod!
3. Sleepless nights - <3 my V pillow!
4. Increased and unexpected bowel movements in labour...

It's incredible how most pregnancies experience the first 3 on the list, and the day I found out I was pregnant I was experiencing all of these! Most parents probably expect these things, but not knowing anything about pregnancy I knew nothing! How my body wasn't experiencing these for the first 33 weeks of being pregnant is a mystery, 'cause the day I found out I then experienced all of these.

I will never forget my Mum's wise wordsd: "When you need a poo and you need it now then the baby is on it's way." Anyway, I won't go into detail on that point as I'm sure not many of you are interested in reading much more about my excrement...

Much love beauties,
Young Mummy xxx

The Name She Nearly Was

Willow wasn't always going to be called Willow you know! Nope, at some point in my incredibly long pregnancy (if you don't know my story you can read it here) Tyler and I decided on the name Rosa. And that was that, we started calling my belly Rosa instead of 'Bump' and I guess it sounded right.

However that didn't stick. For some incredibly strange reason, once I held my gorgeous girl in my arms I called her Willow. Poor Tyler, he was a little confused about this! I didn't consult him on the choice, which I suppose was a little mean, but hey it's happened now. The poor guy was calling her RoWillow for days - I didn't mean to confuse anyone, honest!

Anyway, once Willow Smith's song 'Whip your hair' came on, instantly I knew why I had chosen the name. Willow had an incredible amount of hair!

Would love to hear your 'The name they nearly were' stories! If I were a boy, I wouldn't have had a name, guess it's a good job I am actually a girl and could be called Elle...

Comment away!

Much Love
xxx




Thanks to Mama Kat for the lovely writing prompts. I have been subscribed for a while to her weekly prompts email, but this is the first post I have ever written after being inspired. :)

Young Mums Rule

I came across a new blog today - it's lovely.

This post specifically really made me think - is this why I seem so much more motivated about school than some people?

This picture is from my GCSE results day, the day I found out actually how well I had done! I got 4 A's and 5 B's, I was sooo proud of myself, and it seemed that Willow and everyone else was too!

Much love guys xxxx

From now on, I promise I will be posting more frequently!


http://www.theyoungmommylife.com/2012/05/30/student-mama-young-moms-have-the-advantage-in-the-classroom/

Can Kids Walk Dogs Alone?

Mine can! And she's only a year old, really clever she is. Well ok, she might have been sat in the pushchair that I was pushing and keeping a very watchful eye on both her and the dog, but she did it! All the way to the wreck and back (which is only about 10 minutes walk in total..) Willow held the dogs lead. And we had a very well behaved dog aswell, she didn't pull the slightest. So here are some pictures from our lovely walkies:

Fellow Mummy Blogger

Hi all,

Sorry I have been absolutely useless and haven't posted for ages, but life has been a little hectic! Exam season is nearly over, and my god I can't wait until I've finished my final exam (this afternoon) :D

I have been keeping up to date on everyone elses blogs, just a bit useless when it comes to actually posting on my own.. how peculiar.

Anyhow, the reason for this post is I have just come across a fellow Young Mummy blogger, who lives about 20 minutes away from me! She is 16, and sounds like she is going through all I've been through, so show this lovely lady some support and visit her. She's called Shannon, and you can find her blog here. It's called 'We Don't Remember Days, We Remember Moments'. 

Much Love,
Young Mummy xxx

http://remembermoments-shannonpearce.blogspot.co.uk/