Its been a whole year since I blogged...homelessness, self employment, home education

Last time I blogged, my family had a nightmare of having to find accommodation immediately, as the property we were in was being sold from under our feet. It was a desperate situation. Thank God we have a God of miracles. Barry found us a 3-bed semi-detached in Southampton. We moved last July and have been busy sorting out our rushed, hectic move-out. We still have not put one of the beds together.

Paul is being home educated and is happy at this new place. I like it here too. I have a back garden, and I have just put up a walk-in greenhouse.

I dropped a toxic friend from my life permanently. I twigged he had attracted monitoring spirits to watch me 24/7 due to his jealousy of me being successful. Every time I did something good and wholesome he would find fault, slag me off, and do down my achievement. He was always foaming at the mouth when things were going wrong. He loved my homelessness situation telling me that I would end up back in council emergency accommodation, my worst fear.

I moved house and cut permanent ties with him. Do look up monitoring spirits.

We, however, are happy and working towards our own goals as a family. I am still on benefits due to my various conditions, but I am not planning on being on them for a lifetime. Until I have my medication sorted and I am well, I will go self-employed. In the meantime, I am reading about self-employment and what it entails.

Barry is still working at the church. He is the cornerstone of this family. I do not know what I would do without him.

Christ holds us together, and for that I am grateful. I know I still have a lot of obstacles to overcome, for example, I have just received a benefits letter asking for a PIP review.

Bit by bit and day by day I am taking it in my stride. I have learnt not to worry, it's useless worry gets you nowhere fast.

I will keep you all updated as I go, and hopefully it won't take me a year to update this blog!

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PIP should be paid in vouchers?

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