Vivienne / February 11, 2024
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There are a lot of fields surrounding us but since our land is bordered with trees ...
Vivienne / April 5, 2010
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As a resident alien in my permanent residence in a different country I enjoy reading and thinking. My children threaten to take my books away from me if I forget to phone them on my ...
Vivienne / April 2, 2010
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Now I’ve done the brief history of homeschool in our house I want to return to my saner days before I ventured across the pond to gallop off into the sunset with my hat toting, ...
Vivienne / April 1, 2010
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I had always encouraged my oldest son to follow his dream. It was a dream that all young boys have, no, not a train driver, although it could have been, his was a dream to go to the ...
Vivienne / March 31, 2010
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Just to let all you wanna be homeschoolers out there know, there does come a time when all of your students have graduated. That day finally came for me last year! I had felt like ...
Vivienne / March 30, 2010
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As I settled into my homeschool I became cool in the eyes of my children. I was awarded the mother of the year. I knew this because they would proudly brag to their two friends ...
Vivienne / March 29, 2010
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Now I had offspring and somehow, between birth and homeschool I’d caught the awful American craze of organised sports for all children who could walk. This is not an English ...
Vivienne / March 26, 2010
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I unwittingly became a Legal Alien on accepting Mrs-Hood. My children grew up thinking I was some extra terrestrial being and would introduce me as their “Mum, the illegal ...
Vivienne / March 25, 2010
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My husband, the handsome Texan with blue eyes, admitted to loving me at first sight. I hadn’t given him permission or even really noticed the chemistry that had arced between us ...
Vivienne / March 24, 2010
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Okay, I can hear it! What’s a nice girl like you doing flying off to America to sojourn with someone she only knows as a blue-eyed cowboy? Trust me in this…with the ...
Vivienne / March 23, 2010
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Many, many years ago, well, not that many, I decided to travel to America. It was to be a short visit; a fortnight at the most. Australia had always been at the top of my list of ...
Well hello there! My name is Vivienne McNeny.
I am an empty nester exploring life as a Boomer…you could say I'm happily Boomering along!
As a homeschooling Mum I have finally quit the job of role model and mentor to my four children. I do what I want to do, eat when I feel like it, enjoy life with my blue eyed cowboy and clean my house once a month or so whether it needs it or not!
In true English form I write about the emergence of my true identity now that I can no longer hide behind my children as their Mum.
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