New To All Of This
I’m Ellena and I am a first time Mum and first time blogger to a lovely boy named Ismael. Don’t worry if you can’t pronounce it some of my own family struggle.
As well as being a rookie to the whole parenting job I am also fairly newly married. Growing up I dreamed of having the family life I now have. Especially coming from a broken home at a young age I have always just want to be loved and have my own family to love.
However I am not ashamed to admit adjusting to this new chapter of my life has been daunting and overwhelming. Alot of times I have felt like I have been struggling. Then I’m plagued with guilt for feeling that way. I have judged myself harshly for not enjoying every single second that Morherhood has thrown at me. Constantly telling myself that I am privileged enough to be able to have a child of my own and a good man by my side therefore I don’t have a right to be sad. But I do have that right. Every new parent has that right.
As I type this Ismael is two days of becoming nine months old. It is only recently I have began to realise it is OK to miss my freedom at times, to yearn for a full night sleep, to eat cereal for my tea because I can’t be bothered to cook and to survive on dry shampoo. (I am Northern so tea is my dinner or supper or whatever you call it.)
I have needed to go to the doctor’s to admit how low I was feeling. I have needed medication. I have needed to learn to love myself again. I have needed all those things to be the best Mum to Ismael I can be.
So I suppose the aim of my blog is to bring some honesty and normality into the world of parenting. To show that behind the most perfect patents social media post’s will be a sink full of dishes and a Mum with baby sick in her hair.
All new parents struggle when it comes to caring for their new little bundle of joy’s. Exhaustion, anxiety, PND, bodyimage issues, Mum(or dad)guilt doesn’t discriminate. Some struggle more than others and I am definitely one of the others. So I am giving you an insight into my motherhood journey. The highs, the lows and everything in between.
Mrs Ali & Son 