Life and 1 new bag plus lots of other shopping update!!
I hope all my friends are well
Gosh what an insanely busy time! I’ve been back at work part-time for 6 months and full-time for 4 months now. I’ve been sort-of promoted to run another practice in the firm along with my existing area. Plus I’ve gone back to university to do a part-time masters! I thought I’d never actually leave to do a PhD, but I love my work and I love studying so doing another qualification made sense. I’m just about making it with work, with a lot of support from Mr Dawn, and an excellent nanny who adores baby Dawn.
Baby Dawn is a delight. She’s cheerful and sweet and bright as a button. She has a much more active social life than her poor mama - going to baby gym, baby playgroup and baby singing 3 times a week with her nanny! And Mr Dawn and I are working flexibly, so I work from home 3 days a week, and he works from home 2 days a week such that one of us is always home while nanny is looking after baby. So we’re making it work!
I bought lots of lovely things for my return to work and return to university! Lots of gadgets like:
- a new iPad Pro,
- Apple magic pencil (love it),
- Larq water bottle (I’ve been coveting since I saw it in Selfridges two years ago; and I bought in Himalayan pink, of course!)
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Prada ballet shoes (you know me and my uniform of ballerina flats!)
- new MacBook Pro that runs windows operating system (yes I’m quirky. And yes, I love mr Dawn for making my tech work the way I want!)
- Montblanc Starwalker pen and Sartorial pen case in indigo blue (love them both!)
- Plus a boring but beautiful Prada crossbody bag which seemed just right to me for going back to uni alongside full time work!
I’m clearly insane for taking on so many things. Especially right now when baby is sick, work is busy and I’m worrying about upcoming exams!
Earlier in the month, I was speaking at a huge industry conference so I missed uni and am now scrambling to catch up before these exams next month! But I feel great about 3 things at work:
- the aforementioned huge industry conference which went really well; I was the only woman on a panel that I chaired, and I was told by so many women how important and inspirational that was
- I won an industry award for being a global leader in the field (the only woman in the list- which is shocking, but also a privilege I suppose) as soon as I got back to work. That gave me a lot of kudos at work
- My CEO is now completely explicit and clear that she’s training me to grow into her role. We’re arguing a lot about the strategy for the practice I’m setting up, but it helps to know that she’s committed to my long term growth while she’s quarrelling with me about not getting all the incentives and structures right in the new practice area! Every day is a school day (in my case both literally and metaphorically!)
Anyways, here are a few pictures of my new Prada bag and other pretty things that I can find on my camera reel (not that I have any time to take pretty pictures anymore!!
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Dawn xx
(I have thrown in a few pictures of my garden for good measure!)
— great to get your update and hear Baby Dawn is doing well and keeping you real busy. Great looking diaper bag you got there (so much more stylish than the ones we had available in the old days
). This may be the most gorgeous bouquet Mr Dawn has given you yet — wowsa, those pretty colors, Mr Dawn continues to impress me time after time
I have a bag update!!
Infact, I lie, I do have a recent designer treat but it’s baby dresses - picture below
Welcome home, Amaranth, my pretty bag 
