History - phase one - my 20's

I was a full-time homemaker and thought I did a fairly good job of it although I never really saw myself as a homemaker. Mother and wife is what I had in my head at that time. Keeping the home clean, making healthy economical meals and keeping the noses of four little children wiped. I always went to church and took the children, homeschooled the older ones and made time to read the Bible to myself everday and regularly to the children. We moved a lot and lived in England some of the time. When we didn't live in England we lived in Oregon. When we moved I did all the packing and unpacking. I kept the children comfortable during the actual travel and after we arrived in a new time zone. I never worried about what it would cost or where we would get tickets or how we were going to get from A to B with all our stuff. I just took care of the bookkeeping and recorded receipts for home and business, rarely questioning the bottomline. When I was 30 years old, living in Oregon on the side of a mountain overlooking the Willamette Valley, my first husband decided he needed a more relaxed and less stressful life. He didn't feel that he could fulfill these needs of his while having a wife and four children. So he asked us to leave. I had not worked at a job for many years and did not have the education in this country to pick up a great job. It would take a great job to continue with the lifestyle we had been used to. So I packed what I could fit into the minivan and drove East with the children. We arrived 5 days later in the countryside near Ottawa, Ontario Canada at my parents place.