About

Coach bag, or a Coach briefcase I should say.

In 1997 I was rising up the corporate ladder, enjoying life as dot com marketer. I had an apartment, a gym membership and a job that took me to exciting places like New York, Paris and Cancun.

At my company’s annual sales meeting, a Scottish lad on our UK sales team caught my attention. I can’t remember his opening line, but it must have been witty because he talked me into taking him shopping that afternoon, he needed a new briefcase.

We ended up at a Coach shop and I pointed out a really nice expensive-looking one. Smitten with me, he went right to the register without bothering to check the price tag. To his horror surprise, it was $600. Let me remind you that he is Scottish. That bag was a source of many jokes early on in our relationship.

Fastforward to today. Living in the UK. Married to the Scot. Three children. Off the corporate ladder. Or you could say my life is full of nappies, fish fingers, and endless loads of laundry.

I dove into motherhood head first. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I had three children in less than three years. Starting a blog was cheaper than therapy, so I created A Modern Mother.

This blog chronicles my life and includes other random thoughts on motherhood. In it, you will meet my husband and my three girls, known as: Emily, Alexandra and HM (stands for high maintenance or her majesty — both are relevant). We reside blissfully in a small Thames Valley town near Newbury.

You need to be aware that I sometimes blur the lines between reality and something more interesting than reality. If you were at home all day with the kids you would do the same thing.

I hope you like A Modern Mother.

And that Coach bag? I have no idea what happened to it or how it accidentally ended up at Oxfam.

-Susanna

PS–I love to write about travel and am a closet foodie.

PSS- I wrote this intro a few years ago, but I like it so much I can’t bring myself to change it. My girls are now 7, 8 and nearly 10! I’m a bit of a pioneer in the British mum blogging space. I am the founder of the hugely popular BritMums social network, which now has more than 3,500 blogging mums as members. We run all sorts of blogger engagement programme there, so if you are interested in reaching parent bloggers, please get in touch. I also founded the CyberMummy blogging conference, which lasted two wonderful years. Now BritMums runs an it’s own conference: BritMums LIve! you can learn more about it here.