Ellegra Hair Extensions

I think the hardest part about running your own business is that when life falls apart, the business doesn’t magically stop needing you.

For six weeks, I couldn’t be Elle the Hair Extension Specialist, the content creator, the one answering every message and keeping ELLEGRA moving.

And f**k, that scared me.

I worried clients would leave. I worried I’d been gone too long. I felt guilty when some days I genuinely didn’t give a s**t about hair extensions because I was just trying to get myself through the day.

But I’ve realised something.

Taking a minute doesn’t erase everything you spent years building.

So if you’re a Melbourne woman trying to be a mum, wife, business owner, employee, friend AND somehow keep yourself together too…

Save this for the day you feel like you’re falling behind.

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Happy Father’s Day to my husband, my best friend, and the man who holds our family together in more ways than I think he’ll ever truly realise.

Shaun, when I look at the life we’ve built together, one of the things I’m most grateful for is the kind of man our kids get to call Dad.

You didn’t just marry me. You chose all of me. You stepped into our family and loved my children as your own, never making a difference between being a father and being a stepfather. You just loved them. You showed up. You stayed. And you became Dad in all the ways that actually matter.

Then together, we continued building this beautiful, loud, chaotic family of ours.

Through every version of our life, you have been there.

Through the happiest moments, the stressful ones, the times I’ve needed you more than I knew how to say, and all the ordinary days in between that have quietly become our life together.

You’re the person I know I can lean on. The one who protects us, supports us, makes us laugh and somehow puts up with all of us on a daily basis, which quite frankly deserves its own award.

But underneath all the jokes, I hope you know how deeply I appreciate you.

I see the sacrifices you make.

I see how much you carry.

I see the way you love our children.

And I see the man who continues to choose his family, every single day.

I don’t think I tell you enough how proud I am to be your wife.

Our children are incredibly lucky to have you as their Dad, but I’m just as lucky to have you as my husband.

Thank you for choosing this life with me. Thank you for loving our family the way you do. And thank you for being the person I still want standing beside me through absolutely everything.

I love you more than I probably say, and more than I could ever fit into one caption.

Happy Father’s Day, Shaun.

You are so loved.

Being a working mum is basically having 47 tabs open in your brain and somehow knowing exactly which one is about to crash.

Kids. Work. Clients. Dinner. School stuff. DMs. Washing. Content. Appointments.

And somewhere in there we’re also meant to find work-life balance.

Cute.

Some days I feel like I’ve absolutely got my s**t together.

Other days I’m answering client messages from the school car park wondering what the hell we’re having for dinner.

But I’m building something I’m bloody proud of while raising my family.

And I know there are so many Melbourne mums doing exactly the same thing.

Send this to a working mum who’s juggling 47 things and still getting s**t done.