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This week we meet the lovely Becky from 3 Princesses and 1 Dude. Thanks so much for taking part Becky!

Tell me a little bit about yourself and your family
I am Becky and my story starts way back in 2002 aged 18 when I moved away from my family and my hometown of Skegness to Barrow Upon Soar, a little village in Leicestershire to live with my (then) boyfriend. Everything was great and in 2004 I found out I was pregnant, Ellie was born in Dec 2004 and in May 2005 me and her Dad split up. It broke my heart and I think I always thought there was a chance as I didn’t move back to my family, I stayed and got a flat there and myself and Ellie stayed there where she spent her time between myself and her Dad. In July 2005 I met someone else and it was a pretty destructive relationship, he would cheat on me almost every weekend and in August 2007, after spending a weekend at my Dad’s, in which the ex had claimed that he had ‘lost his phone’, I found said phone in the glove compartment of the car and lots of texts from his ex whom he had planned a weekend away with that very weekend, no wonder he had conveniently lost his phone huh! Anyways needless to say I decided enough was enough and I dumped his sorry ass. This led on to me feeling absolutely worthless and in December 2007, I was diagnosed (is that the right word?) with depression. It was in October 2008 that I decided that it was time to move back to my hometown, back to the people who loved me, and in December 2009, myself and Ellie made the move back.

Roll on to June ’09 and I met someone, Dean, but after my last 2 failed relationships I totally wasn’t ready for anything serious. I didn’t want anything serious. Ellie spent the summer of ’09 (before she started school) at her Dad’s and I basically spend my summer getting drunk and having a ball, it was the best year of my life, serious if I could relive a year it would be that one! I took myself off the antidepressants the day I moved back and haven’t touched them since. It was also in this summer that myself and Dean fell in love! In December (actually my birthday) 2009, he proposed, 10 months later we were married (on his birthday!) and found out we were expecting a baby! 

May 2011, Jenson was born and then in 2012 Evie joined us and in 2013 Elsie finished off our family! 

What do you like doing to be you, when you are not parenting, working (if you do), or blogging?
Ermm….I wish I could list some amazing hobbies but I literally don’t have any! I go to the gym 3 times a week. And I go for coffee, cake and bacon date’s with friends on the other 4 days of the week…balanced lifestyle and all that! (Well that’s what I tell myself anyways!)

What is your biggest achievement to date?
My babies…and getting through the day alive!

From your own experiences, what do you find the hardest part of parenting and what is the easiest/most rewarding part?
Everything! What can one day be the easiest can the next day be the toughest! The toughest thing I deal with is definitely is the loneliness. The most rewarding? The cuddles, and when people tell me I have some very well behaved polite children (if only the knew hey!!).

Parenting in itself is no mean feat; how do you juggle everything you need to in order to get everything done on a daily basis?
I wish I knew!

Why did you decide to start blogging?
I have always read kids activity blogs, usually ones I had found on Instgram. And I got fed up of fake Pinterest Mum’s.  So after a particularly horrific homemade playdough incident I decided to start my own blog! Admittedly the blog isn’t what it started out to become as on my journey I have found many a ‘truthful’ Mum. 

Tell me a bit about your blog?
I mostly blog about things me and the monsters have been up too. Our crafts, our bakes, last year was lots of reviews and posts for the sake of it. This year I am trying to go back to what I know. To what I am comfortable with. Instead of trying to become top Tots100 blogger…I am never going to be a top 100 blogger so instead of working my ass off to be something I am not I am happy to plod along at my own rate.

What do you want your blog to achieve and where do you hope to see it go as it grows?
I love to see people inspired by my posts. So if someone shares a photo of a craft or activity or a baking session after they have seen my blog that is enough to make me smile!

What advice would you give someone who is thinking about starting a blog?
It is hard work! It’s not easy as it looks, and it is very very very easy to get sucked into the whole ‘numbers’ thing. Be happy with what you are and don’t try to be the best. If you are good at what you do it will be recognised but don’t try to be something you aren’t just for the sake of a number on your sidebar, that actually in the grand scheme of things doesn’t mean anything!

If you could have dinner with three people (dead or alive), who would it be and why?

1. My Grandad. I would love to see him again, if only for a few minutes. I adored him, as did everyone who ever met him.

2. David Beckham (why not!)

I would love to say someone influential like Ghandi or Mother Teresa…but in fact my number 

3. Pete from Towie! He is HAWWWT!

Tell me three random facts about you

1. I sang for Micheal Barrymore’s talent show when I was little! I sang head shoulders knees and toes and it was at Blackpool Pleasure Beach!!!

2. I am really scared of fire…oh and drowning in water. But my biggest fear is cotton wool.

3. I LOVE coffee…but can not make a decent cup for myself!

Along with her blog www.3princessesand1dude.co.uk, you can also find Becky over at Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Youtube.