Au Pair life

Au Pair life is hard. 

The people at home think it's easy and you're seen as a babysitter, I honestly didn't think it would be so hard. The reality is that I have 2 kids around 45 hours a week (not including the time that they'll be with me when the parents are home). I spoke to the youngest of my host kids who's 4 and in part time school, I posed the question 'who do you spend the most time with in a whole week , mama , papa , Chloe or me?' There was no hesitation when he replied 'You'. An Au Pair is kind of like the third parent. It's hard being the person who instills good manners, rules, homework and life lessons whilst still trying to have fun with them. I've been hit and had my hair pulled out, cried with my kids and frankly got angry angry angry (STOP TALKING ABOUT POOP). Frankly 3 months in I've been questioning how great I am as an au pair...but today has finally made it all better. My host parents attended my little girls parents evening and came back to tell me one crazy thing ... that the little girl, Chloe actually talks about me at school and says how much she loves this au pair. Thank the lord, Mary and Joseph. 

Comments like this really makes being an au pair worth it and make me have more faith in myself.

Hula Hula 

xoxoxo 

30 before 30

It's all in the title I suppose, a' Bucketlist' before 30 I guess, although I couldn't put them in any particular order.

1. Get more tattoos 

2. Go to New York (DONE).. and spend a day in New York City library

3. Go to Coachella 

4. Sleep under the stars 

5. Gamble In Las Vegas 

6. Learn Yoga 

7. Go glamping 

8. Buy myself a mulberry bag

9.  Reach a goal weight 

10. Go on a ski trip (and don't break a leg)

11. Learn another language 

12. Get a dream job in psychology 

13. Go back to swimming

14. Ride a jet ski

15. Host Christmas one year

16. Spend a summer in Australia 

17. Do karaoke...sober 

18. Furnish a house how i truly want (aka urban outfitters hippy house)

19. Spend a year living with the girls (sorry Alec)

20. Run 10 miles a week 

21. Get a pet dog 

22. Rise before 6 every day 

23. Repay mother hen by helping with her mortgage 

24. Donate blood whenever you can 

25. Live a year on thrift shop clothes 

26. Shave my hair off for charity

27. Do a skydive 

28. Laugh every single day 

29. Learn to make the best parmo I possibly can (TEESSIDE)

30. Start documenting everything more! Pictures, diaries and blogs!

Hula Hula xoxox 

Slogan Tees

I'm not sure what it is ATM but I am feeling slogan tees. Summing up my mood and life perfectly, especially when i'm living for the weekends. Here are some of my favourites...

Zara

Zara

Etsy

Pull & Bear

Hula Hula xoxoxo 

Washington D.C

As part of my college course I went to Washington D.C over the weekend and had such a lovely time!  The drive was 5 hours (and when you look at it on the map the difference looks tiiiiiny) and when we got there the weather was beautiful, cold and crisp but with lots of sun. Washington is the capital of the U.S  with pretty much all government agendas and work here with lots of historical monuments, here are some photos, it felt like being in the movies! Also  a biggie that the Whitehouse is there (side note; Barack Obama follows me on twitter, claim to fame)

Me and my gal Megan at the Lincoln memorial 

Just outside the lincoln memorial and where the MLK speech was held.

Washington monument!

The whitehouse

Ohhhhh I also forgot 1 vital part of this trip- Washington D.C houses 3 of the 4 Nandos in the US, as a former proud Nandoca I had to get my chicken fix .... twice in 24 hours since I won't be getting it for the rest of the year!)

Hula Hula xoxox

American Halloween

Was so out of control... me & Julian ( one of my host kids) covered the garden in cobwebs we also had the Skeleton (featured in my fall post) and another ghoul. America is on a whole different level for halloween I'm talking halloween costume parades,  spider webs spanning the whole house with 3ft spiders perched on them, gardens transformed into graveyards and more pumpkins than you can shake a stick at. I spent the whole of Halloween with scary face paint on (in ten minutes to try and scare my host kids).. and people were actually really impressed at my scary attempt... Here are a few photos from the day.

Hula Hula xoxox

A day in the city..

Since my host mum has a train pass into the city,and I'm able to get there for free I'm ready to take full advantage of it. So after finally finishing my classes in Harlem I decided to explore this Sunday. We ended up doing street food in Bryant Park (the ice rinks are coming out), found a super tourist LOVE  sculpture, wandered round central park (the street talent is amazing). Then we got the subway down to the 9/11 memorial and freedom tower before wandering over the iconic Brooklyn bridge to see that beautiful skyline and have dinner at Grimaldis. Super touristy day, and I loved every second of it..

Hula Hula xox

Cliche American

I'm sat in a Starbucks with my beloved Mac Pro, sipping on a hot chocolate (its 8pm, no coffee for me) surrounded by others doing exactly the same thing,admittedly they seem to be doing college  work but does this mean I'm officially the stereotypical American dream? 
How hilarious, as well as this I'm wondering what they think of my style, they seem to dress pretty different here and for some reason whenever I meet new people they always tell me I give a hippy vibe (lord knows how) 
late(ish) night ramblings i suppose 
hula hula xox