Tai-chi Pink Kitchen Family Intro

I don't see a lot of them - my eldest son I only see once a year, because they live in Queensland and it's not cheap - air travel. So obviously I can only afford to go once a year, so I just see them and I have a grand daughter there. But my younger son lives in the Adelaide hills which again is an hour and a quarter's drive away; so you know, you don't just pop there every five minutes, either. But it's a situation where we're very close, mentally, but I don't see as much of them as I would like to. And I find that sons, they want to live their lives themselves, they don't want their mother hanging around all the time, because they had me for seventeen or eighteen years of their life and they think that's enough.
But no, we are very close. We went through a few dramas of teenage boys, which I'm sure most people will go through or know about.
But in England before we left my husband was working away, so I had the children a lot by myself during the week. It's very hard raising a six foot teenager, so you have to be mother and father. And the teenage years are the worst years of their lives. And I would never want to go through that again, to be quite honest. But you just do the best you can with what you have; fortunately, I'm a fairly strong person and coped reasonably well, I guess.

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