It has not been the easiest of paths to have traveled to have got where we are today, however I am glad that we have. I have been married twice and have 4 children, sadly one of my children [whom I had to my first husband] choses not to live with me and lives with his father, but he is 17 and I am ok with that so therefore you won’t hear about him here in my blog as I haven’t seen him since he was 7 years old, I chose to let him live with one parent as been split between 2 fighting parents was doing him no good [please don't judge me for it as it has been one of the hardest things I have had to do in my life]. I have 3 other children who are to my second husband they are Joshua age 14, Jessica age 12 and Jack age 3, my husband walked out and left us 4 years ago and I found out I was pregnant a few weeks later, hence the reason I have Jack.
I decided when my second marriage ended that I would change my life and stop living for other people and the way they wanted and to live the way I wanted and how I wanted my children to be raised. So here we are today, as soon as I had given birth to Jack I took my children out of school and over the last 3 years we have traveled around New Zealand a little and had many fund experiences along the way.
We now have a very close bond as a family, something that I am sad to say we didn’t have while I was married, we do most things together and have fun along the way. We started out homeschooling with school at home, we had our educational review in December 2007 and have now progressed to NO formal schoolwork, it has been a BIG transition for me and I keep having the guilts that I don’t do any formal work and therefore I will ruin their lives but I think they are doing fine.
So here we are today doing what comes natural to us, having Jack has changed my world for the better and I just thank my lucky starts I got a 4th chance at been a mum. I did attachment parenting with jack until he was 2 and a half I have just finished breastfeeding him at age 3 and use as much natural health care as possible, I was Raw feeding myself while pregnant and nursing in the beginning and his foods were all raw for the first months of his feeding life. [These are all things my ex-husband would not have tolerated]
I am now a pretty relaxed mum and just want to go on this journey with my family and hope we all have fun doing so.
