An Unexpected Beginning
Where to start? I'm a mother of 7 kids. My husband and I and our children live in a basement. My parents basement. Luckily its not a dark dirty hole, its a hobbit hole. Full of little hungry people and fun. Lots of windows and even a door, although its just a regular door not a round one. I suppose its hard to call this blog the beginning when the story doesn't actually start here. The story actually starts with our home in the city. This home had become worn down due to a large family living in it for 9 years, and lack of money for house renovations. But It was ours, we had a place, however broken it was. We decided to go on a family trip, we knew we didn't have the money, but we went anyway. While we were gone our basement flooded (which it normally did in wet weather, but we weren't there to deal with it) and it stayed wet in the basement for several days. We came home to all of our things ruined. All of my children's rooms were in the basement, we had to repla