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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv30y2pAY0E Kat proposing to Mad Margaret]
We had a genuine fairy tale wedding in Scotland and soon after, started our IVF journey. We tried 3 times and had success in Ukraine with our boy and girl twins, now 2. I have always craved a happy pregnancy and more than that, a birth with a loving husband who wanted to be there, to witness his children come into the world and to want to enjoy their babyhood. To finally achieve it was one of my happiest times and I shall never ever forget the moment he held his children in his arms. Our babies. Made with love. I love the man with all my heart, he is my best friend and my soul mate.
==A little about me, the person==
When I was about 7 I knew that I wanted to be two things, an artist and a teacher. I am now both. But the journey getting there was not obvious. Having achieved a reasonable degree I knew that finding work using art would be tricky. And it was. I have had a lot of interesting jobs, from making and performing with marionettes in a Puppet Theatre to running a thriving Art Department in an Enamel Box Company (and Copywriting for the same), but becoming freelance was the best decision I ever made. I became a successful Greeting Card designer, moving on to designing exclusively for a large company who sculpted both comical and realistic animals and figures. I learned that I could sculpt too and had a couple of my own ranges, which was nice. And this all fitted in well with my children, working from home. I began teaching in Adult Ed in '95, all art including GCE and A level, and have loved it since, but I no longer work for the local Councils, preferring self employment (and 99% less paperwork).
I love performing on stage and have done since my 20s, with a particular fondness for the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan. I am lucky enough to have achieved all the soubrette roles in those and many other musicals. I have had various cabaret groups, but my current one is on hold as the twins just take up too much time right now. I also Direct and find that perhaps more rewarding than actual performance, although I'm currently writing a musical...which will hopefully get finished when I have more time. Sigh. I love my children dearly and am blessed to have that second chance, but life is very different now, in many ways harder, but always richer and happier.
I have lived in my lovely, but antiquated, house for 13 years and wouldn't change it for the world.
* Eczema (My second son has it)
* Psoriasis (My first son has it)
* ADHD (My first son had it)
* Allergies (Both my first sons have them)
* Behavioural problems (My first son, but related to food allergy in his case)
* Buying & selling on Ebay (Do it all the time)
* IT skills & Editing the Wiki (thanks to being married to the Creator of WikiMum!)