Hi everyone, thank you for visiting my (new!) blog.

I’m Sara & I write about the life and times of me and my baby girl ‘Chops’… you’ll have previously known her as ‘Snoo!’. My sister started calling her Chops when she was about 2 weeks old and it’s stuck!

I started blogging in January 2012 as I found myself alone with my thoughts almost every evening once I’d put my baby girl to bed and felt it might be helpful for me to have something of an outlet, a place where I can say what’s on my mind and hope that I find other like minded people along the way.

We’ve been through a whole lot since Chops came into the world in April 2010. I survived an abusive relationship, so I consider myself a strong single Mummy and at 26 I am also what many seem to consider a young Mummy too. I’ve been on my own with her since we were forced to leave her father when she was 13 weeks old which you can read more about here here in ‘Surviving’. Last year I was diagnosed with depression so I’m still wrestling those demons while trying to get the medication and everything else right to combat it. As for Chops, she is nothing less than the centre of my universe, my source of happiness and the heart beating at the core of the strength I have discovered since she arrived. Her favourite things in any order you like are:

• Cake
• Dancing to the Happy Mondays ‘Hallelujah’ with Mummy
• The Niny Nonk
• Dogs
• Baked Beans
• Hide & Seek
• Peppa Pig
• Twirling in circles to make herself dizzy
• Getting up at 5am