BIRTHDAY PRESENT TO MYSELF

OK. The time has come for me to show you my other birthday present to myself.

I have bought myself a new blog. It's been something I've been thinking about for a long time and the time has now come for my little bloglet to grow up a bit.

The blog that I started has been a wonderfully cathartic thing for me. I have made new friends and found a way to turn what was a very traumatic experience into something positive. I want to take that one step further now and move to the next stage of my development. I want to be able to turn all that negativity into something better. I want to be able to continue to write about my life with my children, but to be able to include other stuff as well. For friends to be able to write articles or post information. I want to be able to write about single parent holidays or divorce issues or raise money for something or write about other people raising money or whatever and for it all to be easier to find.

In a psychology book I was reading the other day about milestones in adult development it said:

"A recluse who spends his entire life alone in the same house in the same community, without working, marrying, traveling, or meeting new people is unlikely to change very much in adulthood. But most individuals in our society continue to pass developmental milestones. These can be seen as crises, but they can also be developmental opportunities.

The photo that I'm using to represent my family was taken in the Luangwa Valley when I was there this summer. It is a picture of a female elephant with her children. I love it because it says a lot about my life. The fact that it represents my family, the fact that I love elephants above all else, the fact that I love Africa, the fact that her children are walking away on their long slow path to independence and that she is just there watching and guiding and protecting, the fact that she has a huge arse...

Anyway, this is just to say that for some reason this all feels a little terrifying. It shouldn't be I suppose. Change is meant to be a good thing but I really don't want to lose all you lovely people out there.

So, as it's my birthday present, please come with me.

Here's the link:-

http://familyaffairsandothermatters.com

You will have to update your bookmarks and sign in again as a Google follower because it's a different URL address.

My huge thanks goes to Andy from Add Creative who must be the most patient man on the planet.