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Hi Everyone ... here goes!
1. I have ran away from home three times ...
When I was 10, 18 & 39 ... When my mum ran away with another man, leaving me and my siblings with my step-dad, I ran away to my Nan's because I was scared of him as he would knock me about. Then I moved in with my mum but her new partner was verbally abusive to me from the age of 11 to 18, I just couldn't take anymore and went to live in homeless shelter. In 2009 me and my seven children ran away from their dad and my then husband after years of domestic violence in the form of verbal/emotional/financial/physical and sexual abuse which then turned into death threats.
2. I am left handed :-D I would do my school work and smudge the page ... aghh
3. LDS since age 15 til now, although I love my faith, I do not believe everything. As I have become closer to the Holy Ghost, things that are right and wrong are indicated to me and after worrying so much all my life to please, and to suffer, and to fear God's judgement if I wasn't perfect, I suddenly found freedom in my heart and mind through my eldest son who helped me think deeper and to trust more in my own instincts. So I love my faith but I believe that back in the history of the church things were changed when they shouldn't have been, and those things are not practiced now but are still there in the make-up which causes me to flinch. I am talking about polygamy that was practiced way back 100+ years ago, I don't believe in it, and I don't believe it was part of the original church. But it seems every faith has some kind of horrible history :-/
4. I am the mother of seven children, the eldest is 22 and the youngest is 11. I have four daughters and three sons and they all amaze me with their talents! I was in my element as a mother to young children, the eldest was 12 when the youngest was born. I breastfed them all, mostly for two and half years each. Apart from mothering my kids, I don't appear to have any talents lol but my eldest son is a musician making his seventh album, he is also a poet, philosopher and artist.. the next younger son plays the piano and can do the rubix cube in seconds (actually most of my kids can), he is good at magic tricks. My eldest daughter is a singer and artist, my second daughter is good with organizing things and is talented with decorating, and athletics. Seems the younger ones are following suit with varying talents too.
5. I had/have low self esteem, and was bullied at school, I thought I was ugly and would put my hood from my coat over my head so people couldn't see my 'pig nose' and pig face.
6. I have witnessed many miracles in my life since praying for the first time when I was 15, and I know that I have been cared for especially in my hard times, without God, I don't know where I would be! I believe in angels for sure.
7. My Dad's mum was like a mum to me, I miss her dearly. We would always have a giggle together, and for a laugh when she was 90, and I in my early 30s, we swapped clothes, and she put on my t-shirt and jeans and I put on her old fashioned dress and what was funny is that her home help came to visit and saw us in opposite clothing. we laughed our heads off.
8. When I was a small child I loved collecting tiny pebbles of varying shades and textures from the beach I lived by (Warden Bay, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England), I would collect them in an old tobacco tin and wash them thoroughly and polish them. I also loved snails and would race them on leaves across puddles, and keep them in my dolls house as if they were little people.
9. When I was a young girl I hated onions, I forced myself to get used to them by eating monster munch pickled onion crisps ... I would be ill eating onions, but later on in life I have been fine with them!
10. I dyed my hair blue as a dare for mothers day ... (in England mothers day is sooner than that in USA), I have never been brave to bring attention to myself as in having different hair, but I just wanted to try it. I felt very conscious as soon as I did it, but at least I can say I did something daring with my hair! It is now only faintly blue/green.
Ooops sorry it is so long :-/ I began typing what came to mind and by the looks of it, I should go back and change it all lol.
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Friends,
wackychipmunk
