Up until last January 2009, we lived in a big city.
I grew up in the country, and my husband grew up in a teeny tiny town.
I as a parent wanted to raise my family in the same settting as what I was raised in.
I am not knocking city life, but I think ( and this is just my opinion, for myself) that children should be raised in a surrounding that is slow, quiet, and filled with community events, a place where you know who your neighbours are.
I never once growing up wish I lived in the city, or a bigger place. When Blaine and I and the kids lived in the city, I wished we could have the oppurtuinty to move back to PEI (my home) and raise our kids like I was raised. This dream was far fetched considering Blaine was military and we had to live were they told us to live, and there was no Military Base on PEI.
We all have dreams, and goals and plans. God has a plan for each and everyone one of us, before we are even a glimmer in our mother's eye. We never know what his plans for us are, or at the time why.
For us we never thought we would get the chance to raise our girls around family, and on PEI, it was just a dream.
When Blaine was diagnosed with Stage 3 Hodkins Lympoma at the age of 24, and told his chance of survival was 50-60% we did not know what God had planned for us or why. But we prayed, that Blaine would be alright, and we had many, many friends, and family pray for us.
A year later we were told that Blaine was in Complete Remision! Praise God!
A few months later Blaine was given a medical release from the military, on medical pension, ( he has other medical issues that prevents him from ever returning to any form of work, but its not life threatening, just something we needed to fit our life around) and we got our final (military paid for) move.
We moved to PEI!
Hence, the title of my blog " Back to the Red Dirt Roads"
God had a plan for us, and we didn't understand it at the time, when Blaine was going thru chemo, at the age of 24 with 3 little girls at home aged 5, 2 and 1.
We understand it now, and we thank God everyday for all he has given us!
It was hard going thru what we did, but I would do it all over again, so that we could be right where we are this moment. It opened our eyes to things we thought only happend to other people, it made us love stonger, hug a little tighter, and appreceiate the small things a whole lot more.
