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On November 7th 2015, I wrote a poem about how I was feeling as motherhood loomed.  Little did I know, as I sent the file across to Lindsey, motherhood was even closer than I imagined.  Baby wasn’t due to arrive until November 19th but just 24 hours after sending the poem, I was holding a tiny daughter in my arms.  Weighing 7lb 4oz, she was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and we proudly named her Ruby Susan.

They say the time flies so enjoy every minute and boy they ain’t kidding!! Ruby Sue is now 14-weeks old and growing like a weed!  She laughed for the first time on Saturday and the joy I felt was so overwhelming I laughed and cried.  It seems like every day there is something new and magical to experience with my little girl.  Each precious milestone in her life feels like a gift to her dad and I and we don’t want to miss a thing.

Being a mum for the first time, I suddenly know what it’s like to put someone else’s needs before your own.  I am driven by a fierce instinct to nurture and protect my little one. I want her to have a wonderful childhood and grow into a happy young woman.  More than that, I want to be able to give her all the things I didn’t have when I was growing up, music lessons, dance classes, karate lessons, drama school... whatever it may be.  I’d like to take her travelling and open her eyes to the world.  To do all that, I need to work but I don’t want to give up being her mum to do it.  

Before I was part of Mums Enterprise, I worked purely freelance and had it in mind that I would take a long time off to be with baby.  Returning to work early would never have crossed my mind.  Yet here I am writing a blog entry just three weeks from returning to the helm with my good friend Lindsey.  And I can’t wait.

I will be 36 this year and being part of the Mums Enterprise Roadshow and becoming Lindsey's business partner is everything I could have hoped for and more, and what better time for all this to be happening than around the same time I become a mum myself.

The idea that through the Mums Enterprise Roadshow, Lindsey and I can help other mums free themselves of career shackles and find that work life balance is brilliant.  I smile to myself every time I see a new email from Lindsey, especially when she brings important news like the sale of our first ever visitor ticket! or another organisation has climbed aboard.  

I’m shooting for the Moon and one day, I really hope, Ruby Sue will too!