Name changed as my posts will be linked because it's obviously me to those who know me - but I've been around almost as long as Korean Nan was in the garden!
As I'm sure the rest of the world has, it's been a really rough few years. I have battled severe mental illness and suicide attempts. We have struggled immensely, lost people close to us, scraped by each month, health issues, everything we own breaking down - but I'm writing this after moving into our new home in the tiny village I grew up in, and I am so blissfully happy and peaceful. Listening to owls in the woods opposite, and pheasants in the fields behind, I am for the first time in forever hopeful about our future, beyond thankful my children will grow up here, and to finally have a secure family home for them. I hope this doesn't come across boastful, I'm truly thankful and realise we are so lucky. I'm just in happy tears after never thinking I'd get here, and wanted to share that sometimes what seems impossible can become reality. An early happy new year to you all, may it be filled with health, happiness and joy in abundance.