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To be getting a little fed up up with Kelle Hampton

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MrBloomEatsVeggies · 05/04/2011 22:03

She's lovely, her kids are adorable, I love her joie de vivre. I've been reading her blog for a while now..but seriously, enough marrow sucking.

Starting to grate just a teeny bit, and I'm starting to feel a tad inadequate.

She even gets all thankful and excited about dust particles (well, maybe not thankful, but she did get excited).

I'm sure there has to be one or two who know what I'm talking about!

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MrBloomEatsVeggies · 06/04/2011 17:16

Yes, great weather, 4 mins from the beach, a wood to explore behind them, fab little donut and ice cream shops nearby, shedloads of caring friends.

It's got to help hasn't it!

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thisisyesterday · 06/04/2011 17:18

definitely!

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MrBloomEatsVeggies · 06/04/2011 17:18

I do like it. It leaves me feeling a jaded and unimpressed with the course of my own life currently, that's all.

I may have a Kelle break.

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Perpetuallypregnant · 06/04/2011 18:03

I love her pictures and i want to be her.

I only read now and again since her life seems so bloody perfect (i know i know dd2 has ds but shes bloody gorgeous and perfect). I think shes amazing but when i have days of lounging around and not taking the dcs anywhere i feel inadequate enough without reading about picnics in the woods.

stealthcat · 06/04/2011 19:44

I think that she has made a conscious decision to only write about good things, and to take a very postive approach. I have seen interviews with her where she has alluded to difficult times, though her blog over the same times has still been very upbeat, so I think that it is more a decision of style rather than necessarily her life being exactly representative of the moments in the blog.

Pinkjenny · 07/04/2011 11:08

I had never heard of her before, and have just read her daughter's birth story. And now I am at my desk in work, sobbing.

And there is no prospect of me doing any work now because I'm going to read it from the start!

Changing2011 · 07/04/2011 11:14

Her life probably isnt that perfect but quite mundane she just has the brains to make something better out of it.

I agree totally with whoever said she was very insensitive when her friends 7 year old was killed - it was all Me Me Me.

Her husband has clearly got lucky as well he is no looker!

Pinkjenny · 07/04/2011 11:44

OMG the clothes her children wear are beautiful

thisisyesterday · 07/04/2011 15:35

I was thinking about this again today and realised that none of us shouold feel guilty at all.
I've actually been doing MORE with my children because of her blog, it made me realise that I should savour these moments more

but aside frm that... take my day today. drop ds2 at nursery. walk into town with ds3, do some shopping, walk back sweating in the heat, pick ds2 up, come home, pick ds1 up, fall down dead on sofa

But you know I could KelleHamptonise it... I could have taken loads of lovely pictures showing ds3 enjoying his gingerbread man, ds3 frolicking in the park among the flowers and going on the swings, meeting Grandma in the library and going for coffee and a sandwich sitting outside in the dappled sunlight under the trees....

I don't think her life IS la la la pretty things and playing in the sun... i think it's like anyone's life when they have 2 small non-school-age children., she has the time to do what she wants with them and she writes very eloquently about it and she writes mainly about the nice stuff!

angel1976 · 07/04/2011 16:07

'KelleHamptonise it' - I like that!

I agree with you thisisyesterday. I have two boys - 3 and 17 months old and we go out everyday to do some thing BUT at some point in the day (sometimes at many points in the day!), there's usually tears (theirs or mine!) involved and I think to myself 'Why the f* do I do this to myself? Going to all that trouble to take them places only for it all to end in tears?'

But reading her blog has made me realised that it's all worth it and I should enjoy the good moments and that's what my DSs will remember. And it's true. We might have had a stressful day but at the end of the day, DS1 will say 'Can we go to the farm again? I love that.' It's sweet. I'm with you thisisyesterday! Grin

P.S. Mind you, she makes going out in the rain fun. I don't know if I can do that, I will just be too damn worried about everyone getting wet, sick and making the whole house dirty! LOL!

SocialButterfly · 07/04/2011 16:25

I had never heard of her but have just read the birth story with tears in my eyes

BetchaByGolly · 07/04/2011 16:26

I thought the whole thing was bonkers when I started reading her birth story. Why is she wearing full make-up and a fecking tiara? Why are there 15 mates in the delivery room? Why are her firneds all photographing and filming her?

But it is a moving story. Her daughters are lovely, and I am glad she has found peace with Nella's Downs Syndrome and they are a happy family.

BetchaByGolly · 07/04/2011 16:27

friends

Pinkjenny · 07/04/2011 16:40

I agree. Have read almost her complete blog (my boss will be thrilled) and it has made me determined to appreciate my dc for everything that they are now. And to take more pictures.

Seriously, I know she's a photographer, but how does she get those pics? All my pics are of one of the dc crying because I won't give them the camera!

Firawla · 07/04/2011 16:44

Betcha I thought that too about the make up and amount of friends in the delivery room when I read the birth story but then I thought maybe that is how it is in America

PinkJenny I think she has a very good camera, having one of those would probably make quite a bit of difference and also she probably has better lighting being in a sunny climate. I love her pics, also wish mine would come out like that

Clytaemnestra · 07/04/2011 16:45

BetchaByGolly - I'm glad you thought that about the friends etc too, I felt like I was being somehow mean reading it and thinking what a bizarre way to give birth, in the middle of a party.

Not wrong...just bizarre.

stealthcat · 07/04/2011 16:56

Kelle has said on her blog that she edits the pictures after taking them - so even her pictures dont start out looking exactly like they do when they appear on the web-page.

ShushBaby · 07/04/2011 16:59

No, strangely I don't agree with you. I normally would- usually I find her sort of blog forced and desperate to appear perfect. But I don't think that's the case with her. She does write about the less-than-perfect side of life, but she sort of embraces that too. I think she just really is that positive and it's not a front. And if you look carefully you'll see that she does take the piss out of her own marrow-sucking joie de vivre at times.

I find her blog a very uplifting place actually Blush.

ps I didn't realise so many other mums in the UK read American 'mommy' blogs. I've been hooked on them for years, since I stumbled across them doing research for work. I thought I was weird!

RosyApples · 07/04/2011 17:43

I've never seen/heard of her blog before but i've just had a quick look and early on there seems to be older boys featured, she calls her mum one of the boys grandma in one post, so if they are her children too how come they are barely mentioned?

MilaMae · 07/04/2011 17:57

They're her step kids I think. From what I gathered shed has a great relationship with their mum. You have to admire her,she just seems to embrace life at full pelt and make the most of everything.I wonder if American women are generally more like this.Dp has American cousins and the wife of one is very like this.

I tell you what though that Isle of Capri,fancy having that on your doorstep Envy.

Re the pics I have a stonking uber expensive camera and errrr my pics aren't like that.It has to be the light.

MilaMae · 07/04/2011 18:15

You know what she'd make a fab Q&A candidate. Several interesting areas eg her life philosophy, her experience with Downs/stepkids,her fund raising,her vision etc.

fedupofnamechanging · 07/04/2011 18:16

I have a friend who is very much like this - constantly taking photos of her family doing wonderful things. She is lovely, but makes me feel a bit inadequate when my day consisted of going to tescos and cleaning the house and refereeing the fights between my sons!

MilaMae · 07/04/2011 18:20

Hmmm as a mother of twin boys I do wonder if it's less easy to get those floaty kind of pics with boys.In said orange grove my 3 would have been playing orange football, making juice or hollering due to a wasp sting. Dd would have been stuck up a tree or being teased mercilessly by her brothers. Seriously there would have been some sort of carnage.

transferbalance · 07/04/2011 18:30

never heard of her either but will read her blog from now on

so thanks for the link Grin

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