Caroline (or Frog) lives in rural Monmouthshire, where she runs an online party bag company called Frog in the Field. She also blogs regularly about her busy life, her family, her piglets and her colourful wellies.

The Basics

1. Name

Caroline alias Frog in the Field

2. Web/Blog address if applicable 

   www.froginthefield.co.uk

   www.froginthefield.blogspot.com 

3. Where do you live?

      a. Are you from there originally?

      b. Where else have you lived?

I live on a beef farm in Monmouthshire. I've lived in Bristol, Gloucester, London and Cross Ash (where?)

   4. What is your living situation?

      a. Partner?

      b. Kids?

Marrried to Darling Husband, we have three daughters 14years,10years, 6 years.

5. Job?

   a. How long?

   b. What other jobs have you had?

I run a fantastic company called Frog in the Field Party Bag Company (www.froginthefield.co.uk), started it around 3 years ago.
I used to run a country pub & restaurant until I fell ill with ME. I had to retire at the age of 26!

The Tough Ones

1. Summarize your entire life in 10 words or less.

Wonderful, fun, busy, happy, tiring, Pigs, party bags, Children, tiring 

2. Tell us what your typical day is like currently.

Our youngest daughter wakes us up at daylight and snuggles in bed with us. Our teenage daughter wakes us up at 7.30am and asks for one of us to get up and take her to school. (Darling Husband usually drives her because he can't cope with getting the other two dressed and brushing their hair!) Middle daughter gets into bed for a cuddle while Darling Husband gets dressed.

We three go downstairs and drink tea. The girls order breakfast, which I cook while I make sandwiches, dry socks with the hairdryer, find pants and search under our stupidly enormous sofa for a lost shoe. I then de-tangle their hair, check their jumpers are on the right way round and put them on the school bus. I'll come back in the house, panic that the kitchen has been ransacked while I've been at the bus stop and then realize it's just the remains of breakfast. I'll unload the dishwasher, reload it, empty the washing maching, re-load it, then check my email for any overnight orders.

I'll pack orders and answer emails until 10.30am, when Darling Husband will come in and cook me bacon and eggs and make me a cup of tea.

At 11am I go outside (in my purple wellies) and feed and water my pigs and piglets, give them a tickle and tell them how lovely they are, then it's back inside to prepare cooked lunch and do some more work.

Work involves constant emails,PR, blogging, Twittering (I'm just learning how to do this), paperwork, phone calls, thinking and drinking tea.

We eat lunch at 1.30pm, maybe play a game of chess, then I'll sort the dishwasher out again and do another hours work before I prepare tea. The girls come home and eat home-made shortbread while I do a bit more work and fight them for my computer. By now I'm shattered and flagging.

6pm means the Simpsons is on while I either lay the table or go and fetch the teenager from school (she's rehearsing Midsummer Night's Dream).

We eat..again! and then fight with the youngest child about bedtime until one of us gives in.

I'll work until I can't keep my eyes open or Darling Husband romantically shouts: 'For Christsake, switch that bloody thing off!'

3. Tell us about the person that has had the most profound impact on your life:

   a. During the last five years

   b. From the very beginning

a. My youngest daughter, she's made the world soft around the edges...mainly because she doesn't sleep well and I'm so tired I find it hard to focus.

b. My Mother, she's taught me to be honest, generous, faithful and thoughtful.... Shirl sets very bad examples and so I decided at a young age never to follow in her footsteps.

4. What is the greatest trauma you have ever experienced in your life and how did that impact you?

That's easy. My eldest daughter had a terrible accident just before her second birthday. It made me realize that all the money and possessions in the world mean nothing compared to your children. They are the greatest love of your life.

5. What is the greatest joy or achievement you have ever experienced in your life and how did that impact you?

I think that's having a teenager who tells me I'm cool and she loves me.

6. Let's pretend your life is a blank slate for 1 year - no partner, kids, job, baggage of any sort. You can reinvent yourself completely and take a year to do exactly what you want without any consequence to your current life. How would you spend that year?

Driving my Aston Martin around, snorkelling beautiful reefs, talking with my deceased grandparents, lunching with my Aunt B, never breaking a nail or suffering from athlete's foot, oh, and saving the world of course.
But to be honest I think 12 months pairing up socks would be time better spent as far as my family are concerned.

7. What (if anything) are you able to do better now than at any other time in your life?

Feel happy, win at Trivial Pursuit, order whatever I want from the bar. 

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