Turning 30…
On the one hand, I really can’t believe I’ve just turned the big three zero, and thirty feels old… however, on the other, I think my thirties are going to be my best years yet.
My early twenties contained such a wild mix of student life, being pregnant whilst still at university, trying to build a career from home whilst raising a baby, to then being extremely content as a single mum, and desperate for a sibling for my little boy. I wouldn’t change any of it, but then in my late twenties, my life did a total 180 and my late twenties had me falling in love, they brought me Jake and his gorgeous children, a father figure for my little boy, and then, a second child to love.
At thirty, my career is in the best place it’s ever been, I’m earning more money than I ever thought possible being a little self-employed one woman business, and I just know my thirties, with my beautiful family of six, are going to be my best years yet.
Looking back on the last decade…
There’s no way you could have told me at age twenty, that in ten years time I’d be a full time content creator, in a long-term relationship, and be a mum of two and step-mum to two more. I’m not really sure where I thought I’d be at age 30, but I think it involved something along the lines of, working for a Graphic Design firm in London, certainly being a mum of at least one, being very well-travelled, and living in a big high rise apartment. From what I can recall, I don’t think I had any intention of living in a beautiful house surrounded by countryside, working from home, or being a total homebody. I certainly didn’t have the interior taste that I do now!
I really am proud of what I’ve achieved over the last decade. As I mentioned above, I had my eldest son during my third year of University, I graduated totally broke and with a massive student overdraft, and despite being well into my pregnancy, I started freelancing as a Graphic Designer from home and managed to pay off my whole overdraft in a short space of time. This then lead me to take blogging quite seriously which then brought me in a second income stream, which then lead to me packing in Graphic Design altogether, and going full time with social media and my blog.
Life hasn’t been all ups during my 20s, I was kicked out of the home that I rented with my sister when my eldest was only a year old, due to the landlord deciding to sell up out of the blue, and I couldn’t afford/find anywhere else suitable on the market at the time. This lead to me having to move back in with my parents for a year. Then things started to go on the up again, and I got my first real home by myself via a private housing association in York and I moved in when he was around two and a half. You’ll have seen that home all over my blog and socials over the years, I really turned it into the most lovely little home for us, and had a lot of freedom to do as I wished with it which lead to my love for cosy home interiors. This house really helped my content career too and was kind of the path to the success I have today. I’d love to find the lovely lady that offered me the home, and give her my gratitude for giving me that safe and secure space to raise my baby and grow into the person that I am today.
Where I am now…
Which then leads to now, sharing my new beautiful home with my lovely Jake and our children. It will soon be a year since we moved in together and we’ve done so much already and have lots of interior plans on the horizon. This is a house that Jake bought a couple of years before we met, and it’s really nice to get away from renting and have the security of this house being completely ours. He’d not really done anything with it until I moved in and we both love turning it into a home full of character. One day we will sell up and our joint dream is to move into a big detached house in the countryside… but for now we’re very happy with where we are and are focusing on our visions for this house.
My personal goals for the next decade are to travel and see some more of the world, and tick some destinations off my bucket list (including Italy this month!), help my children to grow and thrive in life and in school, see some of my favourite artists live, and grow more as a person as well as in my career. I want to enjoy day to day life, as well as my children whilst they’re still little, and just fully appreciate all the little things in this incredible life that we get given.
I feel like the last decade has disappeared in the blink of an eye and my children are growing up so fast, so it’s definitely my aim to immerse myself in the everyday moments.
Have any of you guys turned thirty recently, and how did you feel when you reached a new stage of life?
