Birthday Timeline~Part 3

After three years in Kansas, with my lovely daughter, Laura Elizabeth, where I found La Leche League, home birthing, natural/attachment parenting and baby wearing. We moved back to Tennessee. In February of 1992, I gave birth to my second daughter, Emily Ann, in a beautiful, home birth. In the interim years, I became a La Leche League Leader, home school mom, created my first gardens, took cake decorating lessons, belly dancing lessons, studied to become a Certified Herbalist, and began studying to become a Veterinary Tech. I was reading everything I could get my hands on related to parenting. My children and family were foremost in my life. In September 1994, I gave birth to my first son, Jonathan David, at home with only my husband in attendance. This was a most amazing, empowering experience! To know that my body could do this, on its own. Awesome! Twenty-two months later, June 1996, Joshua Micheal arrived, a bit of a surprise, but loved and wanted and cherished. Needless to say, my life was very full indeed, and i had some of my happiest years thus far.

After the natural births of my children, I began to question much in my life. My spirituality was the biggest and greatest thing to come under my scrutiny. I found that the religion of my childhood and adulthood up to that point left much to be desired. I was very unhappy with it, and in learning to be a good mother, I came across others who led different lives and this opened up a whole new world for me. I embraced the Sacred Feminine, in 1998. I dedicated my life to the great Mother Goddess, and have since then been unfailingly sure that this is where my spirituality lies and what I am called to.

During this decade I experienced the death of three family members, my grandfather, my cousin and my much loved aunt, Eula. My relationship with my husband began to grow distant as we both grew up at different rates and felt called to a different life than the one we originally thought that we wanted together. More to come tomorrow......