Hi, I’m Claudia. Welcome to my world. It’s wild at times. Chaotic too. Mostly, it’s ordinary, but despite what the world tells us, I believe there’s beauty in that, in the ordinary. Hence, the essence of this blog.

If you were to ask me 10 years ago who is Claudia, it would be an incredibly different answer to the way I would describe myself now. But you’re not asking me 10 years ago, you’re asking me now, and now I would say, first and foremost I’m a mother to two outrageously adorable girls Ariya and Eva (bias, am I right) and a wife to the increasingly handsome (and annoying) husband Nelson.

I’m a 30(something) mum, wife, daughter, sister, friend from Melbourne. I grew up in a loud, passionate, challenging, fulfilling Lebanese family. It’s at the core of who I am and one of my proudest attributes.

Life as I knew it shifted and evolved in 2019 when I had my first baby, and since then it has continued to shift and evolve, sometimes in way’s I don’t recognise. Sometimes in ways I adore. I stopped ‘working’ (and essentially pursing) a full time career in the traditional sense so I could commit the lions share of my time to my children. A sacrifice all mothers around the world know all too well.

Another thing most mothers know too well, is the concept of losing ourselves in our mothering and homemaking. Something I became progressively more aware of this year after having my second baby (in 2023). As the new year ticked over, I decided it was time to give back to myself in the form of doing something that I was passionate about, and that was writing. For as long as I can remember, I have loved to write. From short stories as an 8 year old, to daily/weekly diary entries as a teen, which continued well into my mid 20s, which evolved into poetry (heartbreak will do that).

I decided (after getting the idea from a podcast I listen to LOLz) that I would attempt to write something everyday. In true form, I started months after I intended too, and have also not been able to commit to writing EVERYDAY, as everyday, being a full time stay at a home mum with two children who also works part time from home was essentially impossible. But here we are.

So why have I decided now it’s time to share my thoughts, my words, my musings with the world? Life is hard. Despite being surrounded by people, it’s also very lonely. There’s been so much I’ve been through in the last couple of years that have made me feel so. Parenthood can do that to the best of us. When I started sharing my experiences with people, I found that others had felt the same way, or had experienced the same thing. It gave me insight and it gave me hope that we really aren’t completely alone in our experiences. In our losses. Our sadness’s. Our joys. Our celebrations. And that’s the power of storytelling. It helps others to feel and to realise they are not alone in their experiences. And if I can help just a single person feel less alone in their own life, in their own world, then I’ll continue to over share with my story telling.

The idea and the concept behind the context of each entry is explained in my first essay/blog. I’m writing from my perspective, drawn from my daily life. A life that at times is ordinary, but I’m choosing to find the extraordinary in it, with the hope it will help you do the same.

Thank you for visiting and for reading.

These are the excerpts of my life,

Sincerely,

Claudia Hayes