ImPat

I consider myself a family cook sometimes bad, sometimes good and then you have those spectacular moments but always exploring and trying. At this stage our household consists of myself and my husband, we have been married for 35 years though we lived together for 3 years before we married, our son who is nearly 35 and has autism with an intellectual impairment who has now lived in a group home with 4 other young men aged between 33 and 73 with support staff to take care of them and my mother who I looked after for 15 years went into a nursing after I had spinal surgery as I was no longer able to look after her and has sadly passed away in after a bad fall in which she broke her left hip and wrist and survived surgery but got a urinary tract infection and pneumonia and passed away 26th September 2016. My husband works 12 hour shift work (nights and days) which offers its own challenges but when he is on night shift it allows me to cook meals with ingredients I love but he is intolerant to or doesn't really like but I love. I also have a 33 year old daughter who works part time and studies for her masters in Legal and Political Studies (though goes under a new high falutant name now) and we are really proud of her achievement considering her problems with ADD and dyslexia to overcome. Otherwise on a personal note I am a insulin dependant diabetic with other health issues but just try to make the best of life as I can, though in April 2015 I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and had a full hysterectomy and have been cancer free so far and I now see my oncologist once a year. I really enjoy the tag games as it makes me commit to making new recipes instead of making the same thing over and over again but there are still those family favourites which will always be on the menu.

Location:

West Coast Australia