A little introduction.

Well what a privilege to have my blog on Whats 0n 4!

Ok so who am I? Well that can change by the hour or so it seems.

Firstly came Madeleine who is slowly approaching 34. I live in the New forest and as you can tell my main hobby is my animals.

Then we have "Madeleine the wife" who is married to a lovely man that I have been with since I was nineteen. We have had our share of life's ups and downs like everyone, but I pleased to say everyone has made us stronger as a couple.

Then if by magic I became Madeleine the Mummy. We have two daughters my eldest is 8 in a few weeks, she is at the eye rolling and considering what she looks like before she leaves the house stage. My youngest is 4, desperate to start school, most things start with " I'm a big girl Mummy" and she is still quite happy to sneeze and say " oh! I've got snot everywhere giggle giggle". My Youngest has a "take life by the wotzits and go for it" attitude more so than most four year olds.

As a family we have 4 Bearded Collies and a Yorkie. I had my first Beardie at 14, this year after a lot of work within the breed we had our first litter of puppies. The puppies were the great nieces and nephew of my first Beardie who died roughly 3 years ago. Our Beardies can be seen at www.ceilmearbeardedcollies.moonfruit.com . Our yorki's owner died when she was 10 years old, she came to us to foster and she has never left!! For such a little dog who lived in a flat for such a large part of her life she has taken to a busy household like she has always been here.

Before children I worked in an office selling advertising. Even before my baby was born I had her booked into nursery so I could get back to work asap. That didn't last long, I hated leaving my baby, eventually I got out. I began studying an advanced diploma in Canine behaviour management. Later I opened the Small Furry Hotel www.smallfurryhotel.com a purposed built small animal boarding facility. In 2009 I then went into partnership to launch K9tac www.ktac.co.uk - Dog training. 2011 has seen the launch of Party Bounce www.partybounceuk.co.uk.

In 2010 I made it to the final of the Hampshire winning woman awards in the Mumpreneur of the year category and since then I have been refereed to as and Entrepreneur may times, something I am very proud of.

So you can see I can be :
Mum
Wife
Small Animal Boarder
Dog Trainer..........

and I love it. I love always being here for my girl and contributing to the household, doing things that I love and have a passion for. It's been a rocky road getting to this place, I have missed my montly wages many times. But I feel the future is bright I have put a lot of work in over the last few years, so when both girls are in school I wouldn't have to return to work.

Thought of the day: I'm like my 4 year old I take life by the wotzits and go for it. I'm slightly more cautious than her, but then she hasn't experienced life's knocks. I think it's all about resilance to the bad stuff life thows at you ( box it up, file it, move on) and not being scared of making a few mistakes. I think it was Tony Robins that said the man that invented postit notes was the biggest failure as he was trying to develop a super (sticky) glue and got the postit glue instead.