{"id":6775,"date":"2012-08-07T07:55:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T21:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mojitomother.com\/?p=6775"},"modified":"2013-08-25T05:15:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T19:15:05","slug":"learning-embrace-inner-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mojitomother.com\/2012\/08\/learning-embrace-inner-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to embrace my inner girl"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’ve always been a bit of a blokey chick. I’d often be found wrestling my brother’s mates and neighbourhood boys when I was young and Craig says the reason he married me was because I drink beer better than any bloke he knows.<\/p>\n
My idea of a good time is throwing on a pair of boots and hiking shoes, ditching the make up and throwing my unbrushed hair in a ponytail to climb a mountain.<\/p>\n
Girly luxuries like labelled handbags that match your $300 pair of shoes and stylish outfit were just never on my radar.<\/p>\n
Why would I spend my money on that when I could buy an outfit at Target for a tenth of the price that still served its purpose of covering up my naughty bits? I had better things I could spend that money on like travel and memories<\/strong>.<\/p>\n And when it comes to being a mother to a princess diva<\/strong><\/a> I tend to fail miserably. I’m a crap baker, have no talents for craft or for making things look cute and princessesy like. I don’t really know what colours go with what and I often freak out just thinking about one day having my own house to decorate. I am convinced that I will have to pay for an interior decorator to do it for me.<\/p>\n It’s not that I really don\u2019t want to do these things. In fact, I’d love it. I often dream about being that woman that oozes style and has a feminine side. I don’t want to give up my rough and tumble side either. It’s given me lots of fun times.<\/p>\n But I can’t help shaking the feeling lately that there is another side of me that is dying to come out. I’m kinda tired of not giving myself nice things and always focused on saving money<\/strong><\/a> and putting it towards travel.<\/p>\n I never want to stop the travel but I want to find ways to have a bit of the girly, luxury stuff too.<\/p>\n I want to do it for my princess girls as well.<\/p>\nEmbracing my inner girly<\/h2>\n