I understand that many bloggers like to keep their blogs as their ‘happy place’. They feel that the good memories are the ones worth recording and their blogs reflect that. I get it, sort of.
But in a lot of ways, I can get a big slap of ‘happy place’ from women’s magazines, where newborns are all ‘angels’ and celebpretties wax lyrical about their tiny thighs and enormous meals. The same women’s magazines that made me feel like a fat loser all through teenagedom and an even fatter loser after that.
A loser because I didn’t have a boyfriend. A loser because I didn’t have straight hair. A loser because I couldn’t afford designer clothes, a personal trainer, a salon wax, frosted tips or, during the early nineties, Hammer pants. A loser because… well, I was me.
Easy solution: I stopped buying those stupid mags in my late twenties and never really looked back. Oh, okay, I swapped my addiction to women’s mags for my addiction to house porn, but you’ve gotta start somewhere right? See, now I’m just a loser because of my house. It’s not really about me any more.
Intellectually I’m aware that those house porn mags ‘fake it’ (loving the connotations attached to that sentence!). Intellectually I know that they back the truck up full of the latest and greatest and practically shove the featured family out of the way to create their ‘styled casual’ home for them. But emotionally, I’m attached to that idea of ‘the perfect family home’ that looks like that all the time. Emotionally I believe that there are families out there that live with all-white furnishings that stay white; that their children’s toys are only made of wooden and recycled tyres. Families that exist in colour-coordinated clothes that don’t clash with their smearless red Smeg fridge and matching crumbless toaster.
So, intellectually, we get it; emotionally we just plain want it. Marketing geeks (of which I am one) call it ‘aspirational marketing’ and, I’m telling you, they go out of their way to make you feel like what you’ve got right now isn’t good enough. There’s great stuff in the world and you’re not it.
Fortunately my new ‘happy place’ is the land of the smoodgy, smudgy, smidgy world of beautiful blogs that are real and honest and true. The happy and the WTFHT*? As much as I love a styled ‘occasion’, I love even more the flaws, the mishaps, the madness and the muddy mess of life. I often wonder why I visit the over-styled blogs when I’ve got my house porn to keep me feeling sufficiently loserish (there is a book out there called ‘The Perfectly Imperfect Home’ – I kid you not! Get a life!). I just don’t need the blog world to turn on me as well. So, keep letting it all hang out there, bloggers of the world. I embrace you and the wind you threw your caution to.
* What The Fuck Happened There?
[Image by schorlemädchen]
Squiggly Rainbow says
It started as my happy place in the early days, but of late – it is my therapy place!!! lol, I like keeping it real. Great post xxxx Rach
Erin says
“Do you let it all hang out? Or do you hang back a little?
Is your blog your happy place?”
Ah yes and no. I literally live on a building site, I’m um conscious that some may go, “What!!??” I mean some of our background pics have loads of clutter. and I have bad days (same as anybody) but I don’t often talk about that, I guess cause I like to focus on the positive (my personality). so my blog is real, but not my rock bottom real, more comfortable with showing my messy real than my rock bottom real. kwim?
ClaireyHewitt says
My bio is three lines, and includes the three words..
Domestic Goddess Failure
My one post where I shared one such failure got retweeted over and over.
Perhaps I should share more of them. I just worry that people think it bothers me that I am a crappy house wife. It doesn’t, we have lots of fin wondering what my cooking may turn out like.
And i do like to shop, so all those clothes I ruin, well, who cares.
Salamander says
It’s funny, Maxabella, but I swear you live inside my head!! My blog started as a ‘happy place’, and recently it feels as though it’s turned into my own personal car crash….I was beginning to wonder if people were being turned off by my catastrophes and whining. But if it’s muddy life you want, then that’s what you’ll get in spades from me…. Love your work, babe!! xxxxx
Peggy says
I only started blogging less than 2 months ago so I am currently in the ‘new’ stage of my relationship – I am still behaving, minding my manners and not farting out loud. Yet.
I do intend for my blog to be my place to share all things I find beautiful, but I know in due time I will be airing that which I don’t. I am definitely all for ‘keeping it real’, warts and all.
Mrs Woog says
Quite possibly one of the best blog posts I have read all year….. Thank you darling. I agree totally xxxx
Jane says
Oh, Bron. Smiling in Hobart. You know what my blog is about. Echoing your sentiments completely. I still reminisce fondly about your ‘over-styled life’ post. No wonder I love you. J x
Annie says
I like to keep it real too, but I’ve noticed that my ‘happy place’ posts get the most comments from readers … maybe folk don’t always want reminding of lifes mess, they’re probably living with enough of it, like me!
Good post, as always 😀
Mum on the Run says
Oh – the truth!!
I’ve stopped buying mags since entering the blogosphere.
I’d much rather read what REAL life, warts n all people have to say than have some contrived drivel make me feel like shit.
Hearing you about the ‘home envy’ business. The most I can manage is ‘tidy suburban on a low budget’ chic.
I do hold back a bit on the old blog – coincidentally moreso since I found out that the inlaws were reading. That said, I still cringe at some of my own posts!
Love every single one of yours, by the way!
🙂
ally says
I’m here in my muddy (and sleep deprived) mess, trying to appreciate the little things (hence the blog name). I haven’t been blogging long but for me its all about the “real” moments.
Love your work
xx
Kellie says
My blog IS my happy place, BECAUSE I let it all hang out.
I started blogging so I would have a place to come and vent and rant about shit, knowing there would be someone out there to say “OMG me too”.
There is a lot of good stuff I write about too, but I love expressing the messy and ugly stuff. It’s better out of my head!
Chantel says
I am new to this blogging thing and I want my blog to look pretty, but I doubt the content will be pretty or organised, or neat. It will likely reflect my ramshackled, messy bedroom, dishes not done life. :o)
edenland says
I accidentally let it all hang out.
I’ve come too far to turn back now.
Adriana says
My favourite blogs are the ones that tell it like it is.
The everyday stuff.
The things we all struggle with.
That’s why I love your blog…
I actually stopped following a few blogs because they just annoyed me with their perfect images of happiness. They were too pretty. I just didn’t believe in them.
I like a bit of mess.
And a few fingerprints.
Makes life more interesting.
Life In A Pink Fibro says
Hmmmm.
Cherie @ 'a baby called Max' says
Wow!!!! What a FANTASTIC post!!!
God, I turn to blogging to escape the aspiration marketing pumped into all of the glossy magazines!
The only real life person that reads my blog I’s my husband, who I love, and trust never to judge me for me loser-ness 🙂
And I let it all hang out in my blog.
My happy place 🙂 my haven.
My place to admit that sometimes, I’m not the perfect mum/wife/friend/sister/daughter.
… And that’s ok 🙂
I love your blog. Don’t change 🙂 xx
thesoundandthefury says
Oh Maxabella,
“…It’s the woman in you that makes you want to play this game”. – Neil Young.
Not being sexist, but this post just confused the hell out of me. I think maybe it’s because I’m a bloke and sometimes I just can’t follow the thread of the cerebral and intricate human female mind when they turn to waxing lyrical like this. Don’t worry – when my wife goes off into a soliloquy like this I get lost amongst it too. It’s just me…
As far as blogs go, if you don’t please yourself, you’ll please no-one at all. Having said that, you may have no readers either, but at least you’ll be happy. You’ll be happier still if you don’t compare your house/belongings/life to everyone else. Your life is a reflection of your true self, and if you don’t like it, you have the power to make a positive change for the better.
Forget the glossies – there’s a reason why the Simpsons lampoon a certain national glossy that we have in this country (and corresponding TV show on channel 7 on Friday nights) as “Better Homes Than Yours”.
Cheers
Diminishing Lucy says
Mine is the whole shebang – I blog daily about the shite and the happy stuff.
Some shite is not my tale to tell -but I still think there are echoes. Most of my readers can tell when I am in a funk…
xx
cheryl @ nefotlak. says
great post.
right now – new to housey/life blogs – i’m liking the process of doing up a room – and then taking a few photos to remember the journey……then the room will mostly look far far (like kms far) from perfect for the remainder of it’s lifetime…..until the next makeover.
but you really made me think – lots – thank you.
xox
jody says
A great post Bron!
I think i am a happy blogger, but am starting to let it all hang out..
xj
Silver Threads of Happiness says
Hear hear!!!
I don’t buy women’s mags either (or house porn either because I feel depressed on behalf of my house and not being able to afford to make it all pretty).
My blog is my me space, whatever I happen to be feeling. Space to celebrate, ponder, vent, cry, giggle, whinge, smile or whatever. Very therapeudic keeping it real and knowing (hoping) that no one out there is judging you.
Susan @ Reading Upside Down says
I originally started blogging with a book blog, Reading Upsid Down, that was only supposed to be about books (surprisingly enough). It morphed into something more personal, but I still wanted to keep it reasonably upbeat and separate from my personal/family life.
I recently started a second blog, Living Upside Down, where I was planning to write about my attempts to get myself organised and sorted. Instead it has become far more personal, particularly recently as I have been diagnosed with depression.
I much prefer to read blog that are ‘real’, where I get a sense that I am chatting with a friend. Surface conversations and perfectly styled moments are fine on occasions, but they don’t really help you to know someone. Great post.
robyn says
My blog isn’t my happy place, but I do hold back a little. Too many people who know me read it. I would love to cry and moan and bitch about my in-laws from time to time…. but at the same time, some of those words really don’t need to be said, so it’s not necessarily a bad thing. I think it’s a good mix. Sometimes I wish it was anonymous, but it also keeps me very honest and weeds out some of my drama queen.
Alice Becomes says
I don’t know, I like both. I think that is the beauty of blogging – it can be anything you want it to be. I will admit that I do feel like I “know” some of the bloggers who “let it all hang out” a little more.
I think I am honest in my blogging. But I have no idea whether I let it all hang out? I have posted a pic of my distaster laundry and that was real enough….
Gill xo
Rhonda says
I read both, although I have to admit I love the blogs that keep things more real. The blogs that admit to pulling a curtain to hide a mess rather than cleaning it (Eden!) or the blogs that tell the truth about being angry with someone who is no longer here (Lori). The raw emotion, the confession of guilt over not being a perfect mom (Holly), honestly these are the ladies who have inspired my blogging world the most. I love the happy posts as well, but I don’t want to pretend that life is perfect all the time.
Jodi @ The Scribble Den says
Amen to that!
I surely let it all hang out, possibly too much! (you only have to read Monday’s post for that).
My blog is me. It is my therapeutic place. The good, the bad and the down right ugly. My blog is testament to finding me through all life has to throw at me.
And it is blogs like yours and a few others that I love, that remind me to keep it real when sometimes I want to pretend life is all glossy and staged.
Fab, fab, post. 🙂
BabyMac says
My blog IS my happy place, but it’s a little erratic – sometimes it’s pretty and perfect and other times it’s swearing and bitching and moaning – I guess it’s a little like living with me! I love to let it ALL hang out, warts and all, because the one thing I’ve learnt in the 5 years of blogging that it’s the here it is posts that the peeps love and “get” and share the most with.
Megan Blandford says
I was thinking about this last night, funnily enough. I haven’t bought trashy mags for years, and I think the blog world has replaced all of that for me – with FAR more intelligence, reality and humour.
Shelley @ My Shoebox Life says
Oh god, my bio says my blog is my happy place! Gag. Who wants to read that? Will change that ASAP! I do tend to focus on the good stuff, but I try not to me ‘overhappy’. I wrote a particularly full on post the other day, but had just read your think before you speak post and didn’t publish it! Sometimes letting it all hang out may just get me in bigger trouble than its worth. Bloody skeletons!
katiecrackernuts says
Happy place. Creative place. Me place. You wanna come over and have a cuppa place.
Hey are those your feet? Man, sweet painted toe-nails and now I wanna pair of black saltwaters.
See, you ARE aspirational.
Miss Mandy says
honesty is good, ok so i don’t post about every bad moment of my days, butr I certainly share some of my crap moments and my struggles, I appreciate the support I receive and it’s always reassuring to read on other blogs real life, reminding you you’re normal. I like that. Too precious and I’m really not interested.
Caz (The Truth About Mummy) says
Love your thinking maxabella 🙂 So true – I love a beautiful blog with a good dash of honesty. Personally I am all about telling the truth about life in the mummyhood – but am very careful how I represent my children …. because the internet is forever.
Catherine says
My blog is often a happy place for me because I love writing but I do let it hang out. Whatever I’m feeling (within limits!) ends up there. Then I may try and lighten it up somewhat with pretty pictures just so people don’t call don’t start to worry- and keep reading!
Corinne – Daze of My Life says
My blog is my happy place because I let it all hang out! I can whinge, whine and moan and then feel a whole lot better.
Life is ups and downs. I enjoy the ups because of the downs.
Simoney says
Oh I love this!!!!
My blog is my real life world.
I photograph my mess.
I share my mess-ups.
Otherwise I could NEVER invite a blog-freind home for tea, and where would the fun be in that??
Letting it all hang out removes the guilt factor in blogging.
My hubby (who hardly ever reads my blog) has the mistaken notion that I am “telling others how to do stuff I;m not doing”… what? Really he needs to actually read the darn thing.
Telling others to let it all hang out and relax, ignore the washing pile and go swimming despite the cellulite for the sake of KIDS. Thats what I do.
Which is why i love your blog.
Your pretty pretty pictures and your make me-laugh-out-loud honesty. Perfect.
xx
xx
Alex aka WHOA MUMMA! says
I’m a crap housewife and I really don’t care.
I used to have ADD (Anal Domestic Disorder) and sparkly floors would give me mini orgasms. Sad.
I remember stumbling on a group of blogs where the mummies posted photos of their preschoolers lunch boxes EVERYDAY. These things were works of art and I remember thinking WTF are you women doing??? The kids were probably binning the lot and sneaking their mates vegemite sangers.
The Daze of Whine and Roses says
Great post!
I guess I’m happiest when I feel like I have allowed ‘me’ to come out. And that means the messy, bitchy, wonderful me that is hidden under all of the armour I use to protect myself. Life is better [for me] when I don’t carry all of that armour.
Looking forward to catchng up with past posts and seeing what you come up with tomorrow!
Melissa says
I love this post.
My blog is my ‘real’ place. There’s a lot ‘hanging out’. But then, it started out that way, as a form of catharsis and later evolved into the other stuff as well.
I have some amazingly happy stuff. I might just have the world’s best husband. And the two most beautiful children.
But I have suffered terrible losses, my health is running our entire lives right now and I have Bipolar. There’s too much for there not to be more than a little ‘muffin top’ in my life.
I’m as real as they get on my blog. People who read my blog know me far better than anyone else.
Vanessa says
I am a happy person generally so that is mostly reflected in my blog. When I am down it usually involves someone else and I am conscious not to write their story. I do like to post photos of my pretties so that I can record them. But as you know my very unstyled studio is my current project.
I love to read home magazines but I have never compared with my own lifestyle. I love to rip out pages for inspiration.
Joni Llanora says
I stopped buying home magazines when I realized I couldn’t find the pieces featured and if I do, I cannot afford them at all. You are right, it just piles up the disappointment so I just watch DIY shows instead 🙂
DanielleQ says
This is an awesome blog post. I tread some sort of middle ground on my blog. I’ve been very ‘real’ from time to time and those posts do seem to engage people a lot more – mostly about being a women / mum and the expectations we place on ourselves, even though our logical side recognises how rubbish it all is.
But then I get an email from my dad telling me I am always good enough, and my mum calls me to make sure I’m happy, my in-laws don’t say anything to me but tell my sister in law that they are so worried… all completely unnecessary drama. So now I self-edit, try to find a balance between reality / expression and not freaking out my family.
Anna Bartlett says
Great post. Unfortunately my (a bit scary) mother in law reads my blog so I do behave myself. I too am a marketer who loves house mags and keep buying them despite my best attempts because I know they don’t really make me happy. Blogging has helped me realise that there are real people out there like me who do their best, aspire to create a really special place for their family, but life getting in the way is normal. So, come mid 2014, when all my kids are at school, I’m hoping the house will be more organised – and I’ll have a bit more time to blog! Until then, I’ll keep my blog neat because of the MIL, but I’m really enjoying all the really real ones!
Nurture the Little People says
I like to think of my blog as a positive space where I can share my ideas. So far it has been all positive and happy, but I will be the first to write and share negative experiences, and let it all hang out, when they arise. I would hope that by writing about it, others can learn something…
Nicola
Lucent Imagery says
I love this post! I am a positive person and I face my legal blindness head on with positive thoughts and taking photos. But I don’t think it comes across that I’m painting things all rosy because I have shared the hard times too. Sometimes I don’t share it on the day, but will write my thoughts and sit on them for a few days before I press publish. I want it to be real but also reinforce my determination to conquer my challenges. I’m also really happy to discover more of the fellow Australian blogging community who are keeping it real too. Thank you for sharing.
Lib says
‘Hmmmmnnnn’ to repeat someeone above! This is a conundrum (think I need spell check on that word?)of epic proportions…
If I put too much of myself out there and still don’t have any new followers or people commenting then that DOES make me feel like wearing my heart on my sleeve is a sure fire way to feel CRAP!!
I do know that I feel envious of bloggers who post perfect pictures of their sepia-toned lives and have hundreds of followers! The aspirational thing is definitely at work in the blogsphere!!
Liz
Broni says
Beautiful post!! I agree with you. I love blogs that show is all the colours of life. For me without the darkness we can not appreciate the light. My blog {I think/hope} brings out all of the colours of my life.
rex says
My blog started as an art blog for my husbands sculpture and getting our land to self sufficient perfection…yeah right! anyway along the way I started taking photos and telling stories, then my own drawings emerged on it…then somehow I got tangled up into Edenland and well that was such a raw insight. I post things that are just my thoughts that are unraveling from my bizarre head. I have posted such things as the crap I find in my fruit-bowl to the crap of cancer taking a family member. I dont think I could keep it as a happy place… or pretty ….or unrealistic. But I do love a good story. And I dont care if peoples curtains match their couch, I actually prefer they don’t. I love this post. My house is always a mess, and right this minute my 3 year old is gluing fluro colored feathers to the coffee table…but I dont care, she is happy.
Sam-O says
I started my blog with no real vision, just as an outlet for ME.
I have not found a consistant voice yet, but I try to keep it real while still respecting my Workaholic Hubby’s need for privacy.
I’m hoping that I can find the right balance. It’s a great post and you are so right. People who keep it real are a much better read.
Deb Dane says
Great post! I only just started blogging, but have been reading them for years. In my about page I specifically say you won’t find perfect and beautiful images on my blog (except the rare one for pure inspiration, not aspiration). I think so many people are just so damned overhwelmed by all they see these days. it is great to have the internet and access to so much, but it is important to filter it all and remember it is not a true reflection of the WHOLE. What we see is a part of something bigger even if it is just the whole room (cropped to get the good shot) or a whole life (with just the good snippets shared).
The only magazine i still subscribe to is Real Living – i loved home beautiful but was sick of seeing some 25-35 yr old family living in a perfect house (i was ok with the 50yr olds having it though LOL)
Crash Test Mummy says
My blog is less than a month old. I’m pretty much starting at rock bottom having recently crashed with burnout. My blog is real. It’s about me trying to cope with everyday things with the help of the lovely blogosphere. Hopefully it will become a happier place as I eventually start getting a grip! I aspire to the home beautiful, but it could take a very long time!
Becky from BeckyandJames.com says
I let it all hang out. I don’t know how to just do the happy thing!
I love blogs that mix both. Like yours x
MummyK says
My blog is a strange place. Happy, sad, up, down, swinging around, it’s what I want it to be 🙂 And I HATE those mags, ack!
happylan says
At the moment I am trying to really be grateful for what I have in my life (I’m such a lucky duckie really!), so I try to reflect this in my posts, and I think sometimes I write through my bad mood until I reach a better feeling place, if I can’t end the post happy, I try to end it on at least a hopeful note. The truth is in my worst, messiest state I probably won’t share because at those times I lack the motivation to write at all. Things are good at the moment though, and I sometimes wonder if my blog is boring because I am happy! (But if it is so be it – rather be happy offline with a boring blog, than have a zillion followers and miserable in reality. Both would be nice!)
Donna says
I wish I could throw caution to the wind and “blog like nobody is reading” (and at times I wonder if anyone is!) but part of me will always hold back because I know there is no taking back these words I type and if I am not willing to sky write something then I am not willing to blog about it. Unintentional hurt is something I fear…(which is no doubt holding me back I am sure!)
My New Normal says
I let it all hang out. I don’t hold anything back. My blog is my therapy place.
I actually don’t enjoy reading blogs where it is all smiles and flowers all the time. It feels fake to me.
Stranger Than fiction aka Yeran says
I am here letting it all hang out with you 😉 I like being far from perfect and I love people who are the same.
Giving Back Girl says
I share as much as I can – good stuff and crap stuff but there is a definite line I don’t cross. I crossed that line once and got slapped back over before I could type “sorry” – as a result my sister (the target) is now my quality control queen. I think you know what “feels” right, but gawd forbid we turn our blogs into mini Hello magazines.
paula @ pod and 3 peas says
mines mostly about food, its my escape from the housework which i am decidedly average at but I do admit I don’t post recipes that look or taste crap !! i love the photo x
Lori @ RRSAHM says
Love it.
Do I let it all hang out…? Heh.
Naomi says
The blogs I return to over and over again are the ones where it all hangs out. I get that some stuff people don’t want to blog about, and I’m totally fine with that. It’s just if it’s all perfect lala land all the time I click away.
Some of my posts are happy lala land, some are down right black dog biting. Like me.
In my about me page it says I blog a bout the good the bad and the in between, and that’s what I look for on other blogs I guess.
sassandspice says
OH those house pornos make me depressed. I’m convinced that a lot of those people who own those homes must be in serious debt – just watch Grand Designs and you will see how much $$$ money is involved.
I try to keep it real on my blog, but I’m not sure if my readers ( a very small number mind you but notice ‘readers’ is a plural!!!) appreciate it as I got 0 comments when I talked about my lack of sex during pregnancy!
Miss Pink says
I feel like maybe, maybe just a little, and maybe without you realising it, that this post was aimed right at me.
I am in quite a dark and lonely place right now. A lot of ugly things are happening in my life to me, things I don’t understand and I have a pit of sadness, of hurt lapping at the edges.
I went there a little bit, and then decided no.
Many people have said “don’t blog about what you wouldn’t talk about in real life” and I do agree. But I also think sometimes this is a place to get the start of that story out there. To start the conversations that you want to but are too hard to start.
Anyhow, I put the lid back on my bottle so to speak. I shut the door to that, and have tried to keep my problems, my pain, to myself, because surely no one wants to hear about MY problems when they have so many of their own?
The Beetle Shack says
What do you mean you didn’t have hammer pants?
My blog it just my place. Not happy, not shitty- just whatever (i do however neglect to mention the days that I go to visit the shrink, thats between you and I). some shit is good to share and some happy is good to share. I will not however share how excellent my sex life is (eehum. whatever. I cant even spell sex these days).
you are an excellent loser. highest. complement. ever.
xxxxxxxx
katepickle says
am so with you…. I only like those uber perfect happy place blogs if I believe that person’s life is really like that, and that rarely happens.
I had an ‘oh crap’ moment the other day tho when several people asked me ‘how do you do it all?’ at blogopolis and I suddenly wondered if my blog gave people the idea that I lived in a perfect house, was always on top of things and was a stellar parent, all the time. But then I read back through some recent blog posts and I don’t think I do that… do I? You’d tell me if I did right?
Lene says
This post is so amazing and so honest!
My blog is a happy place, bascially because I’m a happy person, but I also let the mayhem and chaos of bringing up four children rein free.
The sleepless nights, the poo clean ups, the mess, they all feature prominently.
Kymmie says
So, I’ve actually used the words “Blog” and “Happy Place” in one sentence in person to you. So, I know that’s what you’re thinking 😉
Nah, seriously. I still think my blog is my happy place, and my most popular posts are my Fancy Pants ones. But right up there are the posts about my shitty days with the kids, there are many, MANY comments. Most of them are readers thanking me for letting them know they’re not the only ones who struggle on days. And those who don’t blog? Personal emails from them saying ‘ta’ too. So, because my blog is my happy place, I put on it what I want, when I want it.
And that works for me. (And it works for you too, it seems).
Love your work, girl. xx
Janine says
Excellent post! As a newbie blogger (less than 2 months in) I’m still defining myself and continuing to search out blogs that are interesting. You are absolutely right, it’s not always the polished blogs that inspire. It’s the ones that provide just a little glimpse of insight in unexpected ways.
Megan Leslianne says
“Intellectually I’m aware that those house porn mags ‘fake it’.”
I watched an episode of The Block a while ago… or maybe it was Renovation R-something? Anyways, the challenge was to decorate a living room for a professional home/lifestyle mag photo shoot. There were 4 or 5 contestants and the couple who almost won decorated their room in a way that, in real life, looked horrible. But for the purposes of a photo shoot, it looked GREAT (and turned out amazing in the photos, obviously). It really opened my eyes as to how the photo of the room doesn’t reflect the actual reality of the room.
Marcia (123 blog) says
I am a bit Pollyannaish but I’m 100% authentic which means I tell you what a terrible time my kids are giving me, and I end off with a sentence that this is, after all, what I wanted and why I went through 2 IVFs 🙂