Things I'm afraid to tell you - blogger challenge

As you know my blog is called Just pretty things! 'a collection of all the pretty things I run into'. It's not a blog I started to talk about my personal life (and the ups and downs that comes with it) too much. Sometimes when I read my favourite blogs I can't help to think 'Do you all have perfect lives?!?'. {sigh}. On Twitter I got into contact with Ez from Creature Comforts.
Inspired by the heart felt article by Jess Constable Ez started a 'Things I'm Afraid to tell you blogger challenge' and I signed up. Writing this post has been hunting me for the last couple of days but I know I'll be glad if I push publish later..... right? Here it goes: Things I'm afraid to tell you:

- We have been renovating our apartment for over five months now and I feel like our sweet, sweet toddler girl is not getting the quality time with us that she deserves. Off course we try to do as much fun things with her as we can, but it has been pretty hard for her. All the work men, her limited space to play or run around, the loud machines all day long and even during nap times. I feel terrible when I see her smiling face.

- I am a huge Gossip Girl fan. I can't help it! 'The scandalous lives of the Manhattan Elite' is my hour of relaxation during the week. Sometimes, when I am really tired and fed up with everything, I'll look some episodes of earlier seasons again and again and again. Chuck, Nate, Blair, Serena.... I think I love you guys!

- I signed up for blogging conference The Hive in Berlin, but it scares me to death! I've never attended a blogging conference or a conference in general by myself before. I have this petit blog, will they laugh at me? Will I fit in? I don't know if there will be all this hardcore do-it-yourself bloggers, with a creative business on the side, sixty thousand readers a day and then whoops: me... who blogs mostly for myself 'to have a place online for all the lovely things I run into' and I found myself lucky to have around ten thousand readers a month. I don't have a strategy, a plan, .. I just love blogging!

- My toddler is two years old and I still find it so difficult to be 'all these things'. I love my job, my husband, my little girl, my friends.. but I forget about myself often. How do other moms make time to do what they want, without kids, the husband or anything? I am mostly looking after somebody else... This past few months I worked on more 'me-time', my wishes and desires with a coach and I am getting there. I sometimes feel like I am the only one who has this... I mean.. my toddler is two years old. Shouldn't I get used to this new life by now?

- I am such a sucker for wish lists. I wish, I wish, I wish! Call me a control freak, call a materialistic girl, but I am always making lists of beautiful things I see and want to buy someday. I usually make up my birthday list (it's in June) many months before!

Thanks for listening, and Thank you Ez for starting this initiative. Though I don’t know what the fallout from sharing these facts will be, I’m hoping that it’s not as bad as I’ve feared. See a list of all participants of this blogging challenge here.  Hope you'll have a wonderful day!