I'd like to begin this post by saying a huge thank you to those of you who have continued checking back and remembering Little Miss Life during my long hiatus of over a year off.
It's taken me a while to decide whether to come back and continue blogging and I'll be honest with you, for a long time I genuinely didn't think I ever would. Back in 2014 my blog was doing pretty well and I had you lovely readers visiting it almost every day, and so after I left I felt so bad and embarrassed at leaving without saying good bye that I thought I should just quit for good.
Although I never really wanted to stop blogging, it was getting towards the beginning of winter 2014 and I was up to my neck in school life and general busyness. I was only 15 at the time, and I didn't really understand how to use and manage my time effectively, and so something had to give. Unfortunately that something was blogging.
It is one of my biggest regrets that I didn't continue writing Little Miss Life after that, as I know that I really could have pulled it off and managed to juggle my school, social and blogging life. Sadly back then I was lacking in confidence and believed that taking a break from my blog was the best thing for me.
This break went on throughout the year of 2015 and I'll admit that I often forgot that I even had a blog. I stopped reading my most favourite blogs that belonged to my blogging friends as well. It was as if I'd just abandoned a whole community and had zero contact at all.
Then in 2016, with the pressures of GCSEs and exams building up, I realised that I was getting stressed and I needed an escape from it all. A creative escape that wasn't painting for my art coursework or writing short stories for English controlled assessments. No, I finally remembered what had left the huge gap in my life and I immediately felt a sense of guilt and nostalgia. I wanted to blog immediately. My subconscience shut these ideas down though, saying things like 'you've got exams to revise for' or 'you don't have time'. But this time I decided I wasn't going to listen to doubts that may or may not come true. This time I'm going to enjoy my life and share it with you regardless of the other pressures that may be present. This time I'm here, half way through my GCSE exams, ready to pick up my pen and get scribbling in my blogging notebook.
This is something I feel passionate about. This is something I care about, that I enjoy doing. It fills me with joy when I see people commenting and sharing my posts and I hope we can start this new chapter together on a high. We've got a name change and hopefully The Thrifty Teen will be up and running, ready for action very soon, bigger and better than ever.
I've got tonnes of incredibly exciting posts planned so stick around and you'll see them soon! Again, thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for your patience. It really means a lot.
Eva
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