Anna is a stay at home mum with a one year old son, George, and she writes at EvieGeorge. I’m pleased to give up this post to her and have to admit I shed a bit of a tear when I read it this morning (hello hormones) – take it away, Anna!

“There are occasions when I look at George and I just want to cover him in chocolate sauce and eat him. He is the best DIY project I ever did!!(well, with a bit of help- ha!) To me, he is perfection personified. Sometimes, he just comes over, wraps his arms round my neck and kisses me and I’m not sure how I manage to keep my heart inside my chest. It literally feels like it might burst out.

People say you stay the same person after you have kids but I disagree. I think once you are a mum you are someone’s MUM! I mean for goodness sakes, you are the mother of someone’s grandchild, someone’s cousin, someone’s nephew or niece and that is a huge responsibility, albeit an amazing one.

Maybe when your child is bigger you can get back to being a bit more like the original ‘me’. But whilst you’re still changing nappies every couple of hours that’s a tough one. From other blogs I have seen people really struggle with this, it can cause turmoil and despair that they are losing their identity. Well, I have those days too, it can get to three in the afternoon and I am still in pyjamas and I wonder what the hell I’m doing.

What I am doing is teaching my son to play, to sing, to love, to laugh, to dream. I know he’s only one but everything I show him now will affect who he is when he’s bigger. That is why I don’t mind that the current ‘me’ is pretty damn different to the old ‘me’ because as soon as I start humming ‘row, row, row your boat’ my son starts moving backwards and forwards with his hands grasping imaginary oars and it was ME that taught him that!”

Now I’d urge you to pop over to Anna’s blog and read my guest post - where I write about mummy bloggers and books.