A new pace of life..
I’ve always loved to write, it’s my thing. Over everything, I just love writing. Especially with a pen and notebook. Always in the mood for a new notebook, you could almost call it a hobby.
As you probably know, I release a podcast every Friday, that I have been doing for months now, but as the days pass I always think ‘Oh I could tell people that, or I wonder if people would want to know this hack? etc…’ so writing this down and going all in on blog just seemed like the easiest way to start!
Our lives got quite full on back there, back in the midst of 2022 onwards really. straight outta the gate of covid and into a whirlwind of incredible highs, lows, stress tapping away at our souls and full diaries. The juggle was real. I found myself saying that to so many people, it was almost as if it was my catchphrase, along with… ‘How you doing Laura’ .. ‘Ahh you know, surviving not quite thriving” how sad. I thought that was how it was supposed to be, I’m married, I have 3 boys and a crazed dog.. surely life is supposed to be full on right? I’d go into people houses who I’d design and paint for and think ‘wow this needs doing, just change this etc..’ and it was so easy. I guess it’s like if you were a therapist, sorting everyone else out is easy, but practicing what you preach is so so hard when you are drowning in diary commitments and everyone else’s stuff.
Along with this, our kids, especially one of them, were struggling with school. Not academically, I mean.. academically they were flying. Above and beyond expectation and levels, but it meant nothing. For the anxiety and stress and upset being in mainstream school created on us as parents and on them as kids, meant that nothing else mattered. Nothing else could be enjoyed whilst this was happening on a daily basis. What did Kris Jenner say “ You are only as happy as your unhappiest child” … well it was something like that, and boy was she right.
So here we are, standing on the precipice of a cliff, not knowing what is below. There will be no school run, no mad mornings, no homework diaries or packed lunches that they definitely won’t eat. Anyone else reuse the contents for days at a time? I’m not talking sandwiches! but there was an orange that saw at least 7 days.. and i’m pretty sure the bag of mini cheddars may have stuck it out for a good 2 weeks…
Home Education. Scary, right? for someone who spent years waiting for all my kids to be in school so I could ‘get my life back again’ this is not what I saw on the cards! I am not Mother Earth, I am not a vegan, not for want of trying I don’t have an English country garden where I grow all my own organic produce and I am not someone who skips over the hills in skirts made from hay sacks, but I am a Mom who feels deep within there has to be another way. The release we have all felt, from knowing that anxiety lift from our kids, to go through our days not worrying that our child will be sat in a corridor or not being able to eat in the big school hall… it’s completely worth it.
So what does this have to do with Interiors? Well I guess I’ve never been the run of the mill interior designer. Through Soulspace and how I design its more about how we live, what our future plans look like, how we interact and create good routines and habits in our homes.. to curate your way to a life where you feel fulfilled, and not always running away from. Home is where you balance yourself, it’s where your kids balance at the end of a day… it’s where you create your core beliefs and stability as your grow. By sharing my own personal journey with this next chapter of our lives as a family, I hope it inspires or even if you take comfort from the fact this isn’t all sweetness and prettiness. It’s also a selfish way of me unloading my messy Mom brain..!
We are shown endless edits of peoples lives, pushing their way onto our phones and into our lives every day, but I want to keep this real. Unfiltered, soul led.
Thankyou
xx