A new way of life.

We are still here.  Just living a bit differently these days.

What has brought about this change?  We are hoping to buy our own home in the not too distant future.  Which has brought about the need for paid employment for me.  I was lucky enough to land the first job I applied for, doing marketing, writing blogs and running social media for an architecture firm.  A bit of a crazy career change from being a lawyer, but with everything I've been doing for Mini Mayhem over the past few years I've picked up a few skills.  

So now I find myself working three days each week.  It is certainly more of a juggle than before.  Thankfully Nanna Carmel has been a great help and is looking after Eve one of the days each week, including taking Ol to and from school.  I know Ol gets a real kick out taking his nanna along.  

I am supremely grateful that Nick is such a super dooper husband.  If he weren't so helpful around the house with things like packing lunches, washing dishes and doing laundry then I can't imagine how we would be coping.  I'm sure it will get easier as time goes on, but it certainly has been a shock to the system for all of us.

Mind you, it would probably be easier to get used to all this if we didn't have other things going on.  Nick has recently set up a company along with his two bosses.  It is somewhat of an off shoot of what they are already doing and because it involves an area that is regulated and has to be undertaken, it seems that it should be reasonably successful.  Then there is Mini Mayhem.  Which has taken on a bit of a life of its own recently with the release of our summer collection which has been very well received.  We've probably picked up an extra ten stockists in the past week and nearly sold out of our summer stock only two weeks after it arrived.

So we are busy little bees.  After our work days are over and the kids are put to sleep we both find ourselves working away on our laptops until it is way too late at night and we need to get to sleep so we can start it all over again way too early in the morning.  I'm sure this isn't how it is going to be forever.  And I am so proud that we are putting in all of this effort to put our little family on a good trajectory.  

But it is hard work.  So if you don't hear from us as much these days you know where we are.  Sitting side by side working late into the night on our laptops.  For our little family.