What is a mother?

I am a mother of four very beautiful children. I am a sort of stay at home mum as we run on own business which is attached to our house but I do tend to stay mostly in the house. My little comfortable box where I feel most secure. I am a wife who loves her husband and have been kind of married for nearly 13 years. More on that later "kind of" later. I am also the maid, the cook, the banker, the all around servant. I enjoy taking care of my family. I am 34 years old and want to share my experiences that have brought me to the path I am on now. I want to open the minds and the hearts of so many other mothers out there who are afraid to speak up and speak out. My insecurities I want the world to know about. My ups and down. My emotional roller coaster that I call life. I have been trying to put together a book that I hope will change the world for women and men with mental health issues. I want to put the word out there that "Normal is as Normal does".
As I walk my children to school every morning with my husband by my side comments have been made about how we "look" like the perfect family. The kids are all put together well and Simon and I look so happy walking them to school. We kiss them goodbye and we push Daniel back in the pram with us. The image we seem to put out or the image that people choose to see is so far from the truth. And yet we mums tend to look at other mums and then judge ourselves so harshly on NOT being the perfect mother. I am guilty of that daily. Out comes super skinny mum of three kids who wears no make up but still looks gorgeous and she looks like she has it all together. And I look down at my body still carrying extra weight from the fourth unexpected child and the fact that my youngest daughter as blood shot eyes from all the crying she did after we did all the yelling at her. And asking around and talking to other mums you do realize that YOU are totally normal. We all suffer from most of the same problems and issues.
SO my goal is to publish daily my fears and my strengths to share with you my ideas and my failings to open the world up so that we can understand what Normal really is and step back from the reality that society has made us feel is Normal.
I will touch on so many different issues: depression, anxiety, eating disorders, medications, body image, self doubts and so much more. I will share my personal experiences inhope that I can enlighten one person out there to know that you are not alone.

Some info on my family. My name is Wendy and I am 34 yrs old and I am an American that has lived in Australia for 24 years. I married Simon who is 33 yrs old and an Australian on September 23 1997 and again September 23 2007.
We have Madilynne Renee who is 12 yrs old
Christian William Peter who is nearly 10 yrs old
Kyra-Rose Jean who is 7 yrs old
and our wonderful suprise (and wait till you hear how that happened)
Daniel Lucas Bruce 16 months.
We have two cats Samson and Delilah
Nine hens in the backyard
and the newest member Jezabella 10 week old Mutt of a tiny dog.
We live in a very small country town in Western Australia and we own a Picture Framing Shop which is attached to our house. Simon is also a wildlife painter as well.

Stay tuned I am pretty sure that there will some interesting posts that will make you smile, laugh and even cry.
Cheers Wendy