Motivating Mum UK

I went back on the wonderful Britmums site, searching for some bloggy inspiration.  I was looking for the weekly blog prompt, but instead I came across a post for NaBloPoMo

This (rather rude sounding) acronym, is short for National Blog Posting Month – an American invention, where they are trying to persuade bloggers to post one blog post per day throughout the month of November.  A bit of a blogging challenge as it were. This idea has now been brought to the Uk by NLP Mum, who has set up a Facebook page for those who fancy taking the challenge (and supporting each others blogs while we do)

Well, I’m all up for a challenge, and I’m all up for a bit of blog support, so I’ve signed up straight away.  I’ve got my first week of posts lined up already (including a rather cool celebrity announcement scheduled for later today – watch this space). Hopefully I can keep going for 30 days without boring you all – we shall see…..

So look out for verbal diarrhoea from me over the next four weeks….  and if you are reading this because you are doing NaBloPoMo too, then please leave a comment , and a link to your blog posts using my super cool Comment Luv tool below.  I promise I will come and read them all.

I love these BritMums Blog Prompts – gives me an opportunity to write about something completely different and to write about something I’m passionate about (again) and hopefully somebody might just read it….

When I saw this prompt – my face lit up and I knew exactly what it was.  I just can’t live without ……singing!

I’m in the clip above (in pink, in the front….)

I love singing, in church, in the bath, in the car – even when I am out and about (I am trying to curb these tendencies as I’m aware they may make me look a little odd but sometimes it just sneaks out despite myself!).

However, when I think of the subject of this post, what I really mean is I can’t live without my weekly rehearsal with the English Chamber Choir.  For six hours between 6pm and midnight on a Tuesday night, I am not Mum, I am not anybody’s wife, I am not Motivating Mum or the Cambridge lady – I am just me, Debbie, doing something I absolutely love.  I get on the train with the other commuters coming home, and go up to London.  Sometimes I sit in a coffee shop before rehearsal starts (the second thing I can’t live without is coffee) – the silence and tranquility is just amazing.  I do my singing, uplifting body and soul, and return to my family, a happier and saner mummy.

The singing holds me together and makes everything else work in my life.  My family don’t quite get it, but even they admit that its true – I’m nicer when I’m singing….

Every so often I go up to give a concert and the very fact of performing and making other people happy is just amazing.  If I had it all to do again, I would have been a professional singer – but then I guess I wouldn’t have met my lovely man, nor any of you lot – so I can honestly say, I’m happy as I am, as long as you let me sing just once a week…..

I can thoroughly recommend to anyone who is stressing, running a home and/or a business and finding it hard to juggle (guess that’s most of you at BritMums) that you need to find a little bit of time, just once a week, when you do something just for yourself.  As I have found, it can make all the difference.

And if any of you like to listen to my kind of music and live near London, you can catch me singing here