Reflections of a Single Mum

After moving yet again, this time we were given the opportunity to live on five acres of land in a brand new house, which I have never done before.  Not only that, but the man who gave us that opportunity was the same man that I mentioned in my previous post.   At the time, we were dating and he had just built a magnificent house on the abovementioned land and he invited my input as to how to plan the kitchen, which was too good an opportunity to pass up!  As I said before, the kitchen, to me, is one of the most important rooms in the house! As usual, I allowed my two young children to choose their bedrooms, much to their delight, and my bedroom, the main bedroom, was just beautiful.  It had four double French-style doors that welcomed the morning sun and overlooked the whole property.  Included in all the bedrooms were very generous sized built in wardrobes, which not all of our previous homes had had, so this was just wonderful!  And, they had mirrors...

As mentioned in my previous post about having to move yet again, I decided that I really needed to be closer to my beloved mother.   It certainly was strange moving back, especially as this time, I had two beautiful children with me.   On the downside of this, I had recently started dating a man who actually wasn't good either for me or my cherished children, and he played a part in my/our unfortunate story.   However, I believe that things happen for a reason and if I hadn't met him, or rather, reconnected with him ( we went to school together many, many years earlier), we wouldn't have had the wonderful memories of our next home, which I will save for my next post! :) And so it was that we moved to another part of my treasured childhood home from where I grew up, but we were still only about less than ten minutes drive from Mum's place. It was only a two bedroom house but it was delightful.  Because of the small size of the second bedroom, I decided to set ...