Essentially Samantha

  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, m...

 Paul 13. has ADHD, Autism and type 1 Diabetes. We sent him to school only for school to completely fail him. One teacher told me to my face that Paul was a burden. His mental health suffered incredibly at school. He had a EHCP and meetings were called by the senco who in the end ended up asking me what she should do! Eventually Paul became suicidal and was told he should wait a few more years before he could do Forest School. So what were we to do while we were waiting? Paul didn't have time to kill, he couldn't wait any longer so we had no choice but to take him out of school. Special education schools said Pauls level of education was above what they could offer, yet mainstream school couldn't provide him with a suitable education. I took him out of school in February 2024, the local authority tried to disrupt his home education but we got together with other home educating families and joined supportive networks who told us our rights . We have not heard from the local ...