Hola! Hi! I kind of owe you an explanation about why I haven’t posted in a while. So let me catch you up on what I’ve been up to. I’ve recently become a mother (yay! / surprise!) and I honestly spent my pregnancy feeling exhausted. I didn’t have the energy levels to balance my work life as well as my personal life and my blog. I haven’t even had the energy to listen, watch, read or be creative these days so there wasn’t much for me to write about anyway. I spent all my free time sleeping and I doubt my naps are of interest to anyone (despite my vivid pregnancy dreams!)

I had a relatively easy pregnancy until I didn’t. Don’t get me wrong, other than the tiredness, I am thankful I had a healthy pregnancy throughout. However, in the third trimester, all the aches and pains hit me. I dealt with all sorts of back pain (sciatica, lumbago, neck/shoulder pain, hip pain…) you name it, I had it. This meant I was never comfortable in one position for too long. It also meant my sleep was awful so I had to take several naps a day. My best friend told me that the last trimester pains are your body’s way of trying to get you ready for when the baby comes. “By the last weeks of pregnancy, no matter how scared you are of giving birth, you are so ready for that baby to come out of your body”, she told me. Let me tell you she is not wrong. By the time my baby came, I was partially trained to be sleep-deprived. The thing is, I can’t take as many naps any more to make up for it so it makes it harder to function in my day to day.

In any case, what does this mean for this blog? I’m still figuring that one out myself. What I do know this won’t become a mommy blog. I don’t plan to even reveal my baby’s face. However, surely some motherhood content will seep through, as being a mom is part of my life now.

Admittedly, I probably won’t be posting as consistently as I would like to for a while. Considering I’ve been on a year-long hiatus that doesn’t mean much I, know. However, I promise I don’t want to let a long stretch go on like that without writing.

I guess my intention is to keep sharing what I love. I also want to keep learning to live a simpler life and sharing that experience with you. Especially now that I have just made my life a little less simple by adding a new member to my family. Last but not least, I want to keep talking about making room for what matters and what that looks like for me now.

They say when you become a mother, you kind of need to find yourself again. It’s not that you no longer are who you used to be. It’s just that you now have this little human that takes up so much of your mental space, attention, energy and love that it makes it hard to be 100% who you used to be in the past. You need to readjust a little. Not only is there a little bit of a mourning going on for the person you used to be, there’s also an excitement of this new person you are becoming. This results in a kind of internal battle that’s sad, exciting and, at times, frustrating.

In short, I’m sure part of this battle will show throughout my content from now on. I hope it’s as useful for you to read about as it is for me to write.