Hello everybody. My name’s Kara and I’m a *heaves* mum blogger.
(I draw the line at mummy blogger because that’s just fucking awful.)
You see, I’ve had a bit of a realisation lately. That despite my claims of “don’t worry guys, I’ll still be all about travel when I have a baby” and my constant throwback travel photos on Instagram to prove I’m still a relevant travel account, that I am in fact a mum blogger.
*Gasps*
It wasn’t intentional. I really did mean it when I said I would prioritise travel, because it’s something I’m passionate about. I truly think if more people travelled, the world would be a more inclusive and nicer place to live.
But I didn’t quite understand at the time how much I would actually want to write about motherhood.
I’m fully aware that the way I process things is to write about them, so it makes sense that this life-changing experience of becoming an actual mother to an actual person would incite a few blog posts. I just didn’t really think there would be that much to write about I guess. I didn’t anticipate the shock of motherhood, the struggle of surviving maternity leave and how much your life changes in general when you have a tiny human to keep alive.
It’s not a dead cert that every blogger that has a child has to immediately start writing about mum life. Some of my favourite bloggers have children and don’t feel the need to write about it constantly. But since I have written about my experiences of motherhood, I’ve had the most feedback I’ve ever had. DMs telling me that yes they were really shocked about how brutal recovering from childbirth was too. Or thank yous for writing about bottle feeding because they were having high levels of mum guilt about it. And actually that feels really nice to know that I’m helping someone out there or reassuring them that they’re not alone and that we all find it completely shit at first. (You don’t tend to get much feedback on generic What To Do in Barcelona posts, you see.) And I guess that’s encouraged me to write more about the “real” side of parenthood, y’know?
I mean, I’m not going to change my whole vibe and start trolling the Mumsnet boards or posting weaning recipes all of a sudden. Because it’s not me. I think soft play is a living nightmare and need regular nights off to stay sane.
I guess what I’m saying is, being a mum is a big part of who I am now, and I’m going to continue to do that justice on this blog. Don’t worry I’ll still write about travel when I can, it’s still important to me. But I think I’m just giving in to the fact that writing about this stuff is something I want to keep doing.
We are all multifaceted people with different interests and sides to our personalities and I want my corner of the internet to reflect all of mine. I love to travel and have adventures and a flight sale still makes my heart skip a beat. But I’m also a mum and my number 1 priority is my everyday life with my little family. I also like binging TV shows on Netflix and pinning interiors inspo and eating all the delicious food I can… Oh wait I’ve just had another realisation…
Hello everybody. My name’s Kara and I’m a *eye roll* lifestyle blogger.
Head on over to my Instagram and Twitter pages for regular updates on my travels, millennial motherhood and life in general.
Totally with you. I’ve had the realization that I want to wrote about all my interests, motherhood included sometimes, but internet really wants you to close yourself in a small niche. Even within travel, if you’re a solo blogger and now going on trips with people then they say you shouldn’t write about it :/ hence why I started another lifestyle blog where i can share all my interests 😂
That’s definitely one way to do it. I did that when I was pregnant and created a separate Instagram account but I just felt like it was splitting things up too much. I way prefer having everything in one place. And at the end of the day I’ve always thought your ‘niche’ can just be your personality/style of writing rather than one specific topic.
I’m totally with you Kara, I thought I’d never be a mummy blogger but mum and baby travel is what I’m interested in now. I unfollowed a lot of those dreamlike unattainable Instagram accounts too as I’m much more interested in the family ones now. It’s what I want to write about cos my no. 1 interest is taking Oscar to places he’ll enjoy so it’s all just moved naturally to that.
Same! I unfollowed all of the girl-on-a-beach-in-a-hat accounts, they just don’t feel relevant anymore. Hopefully our followers/readers are growing up with us and this family travel take on things is still relevant for them! x