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Introduction

Welcome! This is a new and exciting venture for me.  My name is Marissa Fraser and I live in North Brisbane with my husband Eddie and my three children, Amalia (4), Adeline (3) and Nathaniel (3 months).  As the name the name of my blog suggests, I am the normal mummy, but what is normal? This term has become idealistic and dreamed upon, especially in my world.  I suffer from being a perfectionist, anxiety and depression, and with my three kids it is a constant struggle inside of my head to be kind and fun but also have the 'perfect' house, kids and cooking to name just a few.    The biggest one for me and the biggest secret, is how much I hate myself and if I do everything perfect as in my head then I might actually be nice to myself and congratulate myself for once.   This is exacerbated but the fact that I don't 'look' perfect. Just giving birth to my third child I am sure that I hit 150kgs ( this is the first time that I have admitted it to myself) and I hurt and