I have been putting off doing the “About Me” page. What am I supposed to say? What do people want to know? So I thought a quick bit about who I am and what I like would do for now and I can always add or take bits away as I plod along.

 

My name is Naomi, at the time of writing I am 39 and dreading the big 40 this summer. I’ve been married for almost 11 years and I have two children who are 10 and 8.

 

My Little B’s are fabulous, I have quite an easy time with them and for that I am eternally grateful. I am fully aware that all this is likely to change in the coming years; however, I am enjoying what I have right now and not worrying about the teen years.

 

Master B, the youngest has Perthes Disease, a condition in the hip that has resulted in much time in hospital, time in broom stick plaster (both legs from ankle to top of leg plastered, legs held apart by a stick) and two lots of surgery. He currently has one leg shorter than the other; we do physio with him daily and have a hospital trip once a month. Looking forward we don’t know what the future holds but we do know that we will work it all out together. He is a resilient little chap though who has coped well with the hand he has been dealt. He is actually a super star and I am very proud of him.  He is a intelligent little man with a wicked sense of fun and incredibly loving nature and he has the best hair ever.

 

Little Miss B is my shiny diamond of a daughter. She is tall, slim, clever and beautiful with a marvellous sense of humour. She is very fit and loves all the sports that she has tried so far. She is an Ice Skater, well three of us skate, Mr B is banned due to managing to break his leg on the first day of a ski-ing holiday. He will never be allowed on the ice so it is a sport that the three of us undertake without him, although he is allowed to watch from the safety of the café, should he so wish.  Little Miss B has been skating for three years and last year heralded her fist competitions as a beginner. A terrifying time; Mr B and I were beside ourselves watching her.  Not in a competitive sense but just knowing how hard she had worked and desperately upset she would be to not perform to her full ability. Luckily so far so good and this year will bring her first “open” competition. I’m not sure that our nerves can take it though. 

 

My little B’s are unusually close. Don’t get me wrong, they have their moments and they do bicker but they are very much a team, enjoying each other’s successes and supporting each other in difficult times. I am truly blessed.

 

Mr B and I work together. We have our own recruitment business; we used to employ staff but thanks to the recession it is now just us in a beach hut office in our back garden.  Mr B also dabbles online trying to make some extra bucks and I have done some selling online and this winter I’ve had a stall at a craft fair selling bunting, vintage style home ware and other bits and bobs.  Despite us working together Mr B and I have a good marriage and the last couple of years, however tough, have brought us closer together (fingers down throat making puking noises). As Mr B said to me at a particularly low point last year, there’s no one I’d rather be in the shit with than you. 

 

There are many things that I enjoy doing, I love to bake and I love to eat baked goods. I enjoy crafts and can turn my hand to basic jewellery making, felting, card making and sewing if the mood takes me.  I’m a bit slap dash if I’m honest and have to be in the right mood for it but hey, if it’s a hobby does that matter? I read prolifically, I love music and dancing in the kitchen. I also like gardening. Well I like some aspects of gardening, I hate weeding with a passion as Mr B will attest to. In fact if you were to ask Mr B he would probably say that I enjoy sitting on a deckchair watching him garden… this is not strictly true but again it depends on my mood.

 

I like walking. In the woods, up a mountain, by the sea; I’m not too fussy, as long as I have some good shoes and there’s a decent Café somewhere on the outing, I can go all day.  In fact Mr B and I have been known to play hookey from work and have a sneaky day out in the nearby Shropshire Hills with a picnic and a flask, heaven.

 

I go to the gym. Now I’m not sure if I can say I enjoy it. I go to keep fit and because I am either desperately trying to maintain my weight or trying to lose weight. I have a constant battle with my weight due to my love of baked goods. Currently I am very overweight and that I am sure will be a topic I shall cover in full.  I used to run and have indeed run a half marathon with a friend. To be fair if she hadn’t been such an amazing running partner I don’t think I would have finished it but I can still list it as one of my life’s achievements.  I stopped running when I hurt my leg tripping off a curb, it came as Master B first went into hospital so I ended up not running for a while. One of my aims this year is to get back out there running but in the meantime I will stick to the gym.

 
What more can I say. Oh yes, I feel it important to say that whilst it seems that I am a very active, busy person I am in fact very lazy and love nothing more than to snuggle on the sofa en famille watching crap TV. That is my idea of perfect quality time.