Mood:  happy

Welcome to my first entry in my new blog!

I am a single mother with two wonderful little boys.  My youngest son has ADHD and my oldest has Neurofibromatosis Type 1, severe Tracheomalacia, a tracheostomy, is on a ventilator, a feeding tube and has nursing care in our home up to 16 hours per day.

I have an ex husband that is really hard to deal with.  When we first separated over 5 years ago he became even more violent and unpredicatble then he was when we were married and I ended up getting a protective order placed on him soon after we separated. 

I am unable to work a “real job” due to lack of reliability of nursing coverage and no one else available to watch my son.  I recently filed for a review of the child support because of the drastic increase in his pay and now we are having to go to court to let the judge decide that DCSE (child support enforcemnt) made the rigth decision and we are arguing again.  I hope it doesn’t escalate to the protective order stage again but my kids have come home telling me of the “I should have killed her” comments he has made. 

Anyway, I found the ProBlogger page tonight and wanted to get some blogging experience so I can apply for a ProBlogger Job and one day have a home for me and my children other than living with my mom.  Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the fact that I have a place to live for the time being but the future is uncertain.  My mom is 73 and had surgery for cancer this past summer for the second time.  She has a reverse mortgage on her home and when something happens to her we either have to pay off that loan or move out and we only have 90 days to do one or the other.  I really want to be able to provide a home and a secure future for my kids and to help lift some of the pressure off my shoulders. 

So… help me out…. come back, read my blog, help me to get my experience blogging and all constructive criticism is welcome!