Who Am I?
Welcome to Chaotically Me. As the name suggest this is a blog that helps me qualm the crazy and sort my head out (it’s chaotic in there!). As the years have gone on this has become more of a place for me to share recipes, adventures out and about with my kids, discuss my issues with body image/weight loss and random thoughts rattling around in my head.
In 2009 we moved from a sleepy Aussie city across the globe to London, with a short 12 month stop in rural England (best year of my life). I’m 27 and have 3 adorable boys who keep me constantly busy and most importantly, frequently amused.
I love taking photos (though I’m still in the point and shoot stage of my dream to be a half-decent photographer) so this blog is definitely photo heavy. How could it not be with such gorgeous subjects and the spectacular London back drop to behold?
I love my chocolate creamy, my coffee strong and everything savoury with a heavy dose of garlic!
Thanks for stopping by, I’d love to hear from you!
- I’m messy but clean
- I’m a brunette but have frequent blond moments
- I’m becoming more cynical with each passing year
- I like to be solitary and quiet yet I share space with 3 noisy boys
- I read like a mad woman, obsessively until a book is finished….obsessively until I get a certain book/series out of my system…but then I’ll get bored and go into a lull “between fads” where I read almost nothing
- I write in drips and drabs…I delete things defeating the purpose of learning from your errors
- I hate being wrong but I rarely ever think I’m right…
- I lived my first 25 years of life in Australia and then flew to the other side of the world before finding home
- I’m a dag…but I like to smell nice
- I’m lactose intolerant…but I have a serious addiction to all things chocolate and my coffee with a heavy dose of froth
- I get over things and switch quickly between interests…but bad habits I’ve never been able to shake
- I love good television
- Though I think we get a little too involved and analyse t.v shows a little more than is normal
- If my hubby and I stopped watching telly together I fear we’d probably run out of things to talk about
- We do swap novels regularly…so there’s always that
- Oh right…and we have three children so if pressed we could probably have a chat about them too
- I hate crowds and lack of privacy yet I moved from sleepy Brisbane to crazy, hectic London (go figure!)
- I’ve always been a cat person, though England has made me seriously consider getting a dog (I don’t know how thrilled our 10-year old kitty cat, Eddie would be with a puppy running around the place…)
- I love a cold rainy day snuggled up in bed under a doona/duvet with a good book and a cup of tea more than just about anything in the world
- The rain in England is beautiful
- People travel to Australia for our warm, sandy beaches…yet I’d rather walk along a sandy beach covered with ice in Scotland on a cold Winter’s day
- I love wearing a woollen coat, a pretty scarf, warm gloves and a silly, fuzzy hat…I can’t imagine going 12 months without rugging up in them now that I’ve discovered the thrill of a truly cold winter’s day…
You are a very creative person. Try writing some poetry.
Nice to meet you!
Likewise Lilian
Thanks for stopping by!
I love England whether it’s raining or not! I wish I could move to England. I’ve never been there but it calls to me. I would love to travel to Scotland as well! And Wales! A beautiful country! I so hate living here in the states! It’s not all it’s racked up to be.
Most moms have low self esteem. I do, but not as bad as I used to. I have two boys who are older now, but still drive me crazy. It does get easier!
England is a beautiful country (though very under-appreciated by the general public over here who all want to live in the U.S or Australia! grass is always greener I suppose!) and I do so love the rain!
My header image is a photo taken last Christmas on a Scottish beach (loved it!), I didn’t think it possible but I actually think Scotland might be prettier then England! It’s also refreshing that the Scottish have so much pride in their country and their people. They don’t moan about the weather and not once were we asked, “Why on earth would Australians come here for Christmas when you could be sitting on a warm beach?”.
We were going to have a short trip to Wales for Christmas this year but decided to save our pennies instead. We’ll get there one day!
All that said, my hubby wants to live in the U.S and he is slowly swaying me. It might happen one day! Not too soon though I hope
Good to hear it gets easier…though I imagine it will get harder first? Three teenage boys under my roof scares the crap out of me! Though hopefully by the time our youngest is a teen his eldest brother will be past the worst of it.
Thanks so much for stopping by and commenting
Well I’m a Brit who lived in the states for four and a half years and then back to England again. It’s hard to say which is better, they each have good and bad points like anyway. England is my home so I kind of always knew I would want to come back here, but the states was fun (it was Las Vegas I lived in, so how could it not be fun!).
Love the look of your recipes, must try some of them
Oops, I meant ‘like anywhere’ not ‘like anyway’!
Thanks for taking the time to comment Vanessa, I love the feedback
Living away from your homeland really does help you appreciate some of the things from you take for granted growing up, doesn’t it. It’s usually the little things I miss the most. I think most people assume being Australian I must miss the warm weather, sunshine and beaches but those things would probably be at the bottom of my list of reasons to move back.
Living in Las Vegas must have been amazing! My hubby would love to move to the U.S for a few years. I’d rather wait until the kids are grown up, but only out of paranoia that the kids wouldn’t be as safe in a U.S public school as they are here in the U.K or back in Australia.
The education here in the U.K is amazing too, so I think we’ll probably be here for the long haul.
What took you to Las Vegas and then back home to England again?
Hi, it won’t let me nest another comment under yours, but to answer your question – What took me to Vegas was that I married someone from there, and what brought me back was that I had had a daughter, and was pregnant with my son and just didn’t want them going to school there, so made a decision to come back to England in plenty of time for them to start their schooling over here. I also felt quite homesick for England despite loving Vegas. We’ve been back 10 years now, but I still miss lots of things about Vegas.
You’re right about how living away from your homeland helps you appreciate a lot of the things you took for granted growing up, but also it makes you see your home country differently – you see it through the eyes of the people where you’re at, and realise that they have very strange ideas about your country!
Hi, I nominated you for the Versatile Blogger award. Don’t feel obliged to do anything more than just take it as a compliment! Details here: http://vanessa-chapman.com/2012/03/13/the-versatile-blogger-award/