Nanny to Mommy

We are on vacation this week! Woo Hoo! But I want to share something with all of you for this week's #BehindTheBlogger prompt that was a hard time in my life.

I have told you all about how 2010 was the worst year of my life and how the events of that year lead to me suffering from post-partum depression. My daughter was born in December of 2010. I had been on bed rest for a month before she was born. Going from two incomes to one was very hard on our family, especially my husband. When my daughter was born, he would still party every weekend like we did before and every day when he would get home from work he would take a nap until my daughter went to bed, then play video games until midnight.

 

During that time, it was hard for me to understand why he wasn't willing to be more involved, but doing research I realized it was because he was depressed too. And why?

I first decided to start this blog to keep track of my pregnancy in 2010. Then when my daughter was actually here, it became hard to keep up. I was in a car accident in 2012, that left me without a vehicle. With no where to go and more time on my hands, I decided to start blogging again. I wanted to join the community of blogging, to find friends since I couldn't go out and hang out with my "real life" friends like I did before.

This photo is from 2012.

 

Finding other bloggers, I realized I could start reviewing products and maybe make a little income. I didn't want to sell out though. I wanted to only blog about products/brands that fit my life, since I considered my blog a parenting lifestyle blog. I started on this amazing journey that has led me to so many amazing opportunities and I have met great people along the way.
 

I thought about writing something totally different for this #BehindTheBlogger topic, but something came up and I just felt I had to pour my heart out.

 

I don't why, but I don't talk about him much on here. But he is a huge part of our everyday lives. My first baby was my furbaby. We named him Squirt from Finding Nemo, he's the turtle's son. And we bought him at a time when I really needed him. We had just moved out into the middle of no where after getting married that July of 2007. I wanted a baby oh so badly, but financially it felt irresponsible so he was my baby.