20 Facts About Me
Here goes with a few things that you may not know about me already!
1. I met my husband working for Primark.
As of May 2016 we have been together 7 1/2 years and married for 5 years.
2. My husband is older than me… by quite a bit.
In fact he is 10 years (and 18 days) older than me. Contrary to what some would like to believe, I persued him, and won his heart.
3. I am no stranger to baby loss.
I have had two miscarriages, one in 2009 and another in 2015. We now have a beautiful daughter who turned two in February and I am due with our second rainbow baby in December 2016. I have written about my losses in a post called, 'Miscarriage - The Great Taboo?'
4. I’m a Me to You Tatty Teddy collector.
I have over 100 items from teddy bears to photo frames, and ornaments to clothing.
5. My favourite holiday destination is Tenerife.
This is where my husband proposed to me, and where we spent our second wedding anniversary (we revisited the same restaurant & he surprised me with flowers!)
6. I love tattoos and piercings.
I have ten piercings (four on each ear lobe and 2 in my right upper ear cartilage) and six tattoos (two on my left forearm, one on my right forearm, one on each upper arm and one on my left shoulder blade).
7. I didn’t travel on a plane until I was 16.
The first time I ever travelled on a plane my destination was Uganda.
8. I absolutely love to bake.
I am notorious for my awesome (if I do say so myself) lemon drizzle cake and chocolate brownies. My favourite bakes to date though are a farmyard I made for my husband's work Macmillan coffee morning, and of course my daughter's birthday cakes.
9. I have a few allergies.
I'm allergic to Elastoplast, dairy, and some nuts.
10. I have two cats.
We got our kitten first, and our daughter named her, 'Jess', as the week we named her she had just discovered postman pat and every cat had to be called Jess. Later on we adopted Jess' mum as she needed a home.
11. I've had four cars in four years.
The first was a Corsa (written off by some idiot joining by turning right onto the dual carriageway I was driving on). Then I had a beautiful red Fiat 500, which I loved, but was totally unpractical when we had our daughter. So we bought a Nissan Qashqai, in orange, which then needed loads of work, the expense of which was not worth keeping the car, so we traded it in towards another Nissan Qashqai, this time in black.
12. My favourite time of year is Christmas.
We've always gone all-out, but these days we always do a little extra for our wee girl.
13. I've only ever had two operations in my life.
One for appendicitis and the other was exploring the reasons behind my infertility.
14. I run a crochet business.
I run this business from home, called Mama Naii's Crochet.
15. When I was a child I wanted to be a vet.
As I grew I decided it wasn’t for me. I didn’t want to have to put animals down, I just wanted to look after them.
16. I'm a huge Disney fan.
I absolutely love classic Disney movies... especially Alice in Wonderland which is my favourite.
17. I am the eldest child in my family.
This includes both immediate (I have two younger brothers) and extended (I have seven younger cousins).
18. I was the first in my generation of my family to get married.
I was also the first to have children. I am the first to have two girls (not including my mom & aunt who are twins).
19. I used to bite my nails.
Since I have been getting my nails done with extensions or overlay when I started earning money at 16 years old I have stopped biting them.
20. My first job was as a Christmas temp at Primark when I was 16.
By the time I was 17 I had my first manager's position. I worked my way up until I went on maternity leave and chose not to return to a management position in order to spend time at home with my daughter instead.
So there we go, that's me!
Check out the story of how we became first time buyers and started renovations in our family home.