Maiden Voyage – Aka the first blog post about us
27 May 2011 Leave a Comment
in Our Philosophy Tags: about, introductions, plans
I started this blog because I wanted a place to write about our little family. First things first, let me introduce us, I am 31 years old, and have just had my first child, a beautiful little girl named Juniper who lights up my life. I am married, to a man who is kind and gentle and beautiful, he is a chef for work and a devoted husband and father for fun. We met when we were 22, got married when we were 28 and had our first child a couple of years after that. When Juniper was born (she is now 3.5 months old) we lived on the south island of New Zealand in a white house on a hill, just a short time later we find ourselves in QLD Australia, Australia is home for us, but this is our first time living in Queensland. We move around a lot. At the moment we are living with my mother and her husband and their three slightly crazy dogs in their beautiful little seaside village.
Living with my mother again isn’t something I had planned, but after Juniper was born suddenly living outside the country started to feel more isolating than intrepid so we figured it was time to come home, we hadn’t intended to come back so quickly but a run in with some people we trusted – but shouldn’t have – put us in a tight spot financially and instead of slogging it out so far away from home, we decided to take my mother up on her offer of a room, cheap rent and the opportunity to save up a new nest egg, and so here we are.
We’ve only been here a couple of weeks and we are settling in nicely. My Mother is over the moon about having her first grandchild under her roof during these precious early months and is thrilled to bits about having her own personal chef in the kitchen cooking up a storm in the evenings. We are struggling a little with the change in weather, but otherwise are happy to be here and ready to plan our next life adventure.
I guess in our position most people would be saving up a nest egg for a home, or at the very least figuring out where they want to settle down to next, but we’ve always been a little odd. So instead of saving up for a home – and a life of mortgage repayments and interest rate headaches – we are saving up for a caravan and hitting the books (well, the internet anyway) to figure out the best way to see this beautiful country of ours. It’s going to take a while to get set up and to save enough to get ourselves started but our plan is to be on the road by 2015.
This blog will eventually be about that journey, and the joys of parenting peacefully on the road, but in the meantime I’d like it to be a place where I can talk about the daily decisions we make as parents, and about the choices we make (or have made). I will write about my decision to homebirth Juniper in a loungeroom a thousand miles away from home, about her lotus birth, about going into post dates, about my desire to raise empowered children, about homeschooling. I will blog about the difficulties I face and the road bumps I find along the way as I discover my own limitations as a parent. I will blog about our triumphs and pitfalls and sometimes I will blog about nothing at all.
Wherever this crazy little life takes us, I’ll be here sharing the journey with you – oh imaginary blog reader. Wish us luck.
