MY FAMILY

My new family:

Val, my birthmum, lives near Somerset. She loves to get out and about and is often in Burnie helping Joanna with the kids when she works.
Above is me with cousins Colleen and Kylie and my birthmum Valerie

Joanna, married to Nick and they have Talia and Tyson. Jo works at a call centre in Burnie (as does our cousin Kylie)
This is my nephew Shaun (Denise's son) and my sister Joanna

Sandra, lives at Penguin and is married to Barry. Their kids are in WA so I havent met them yet. Sandra recently had a career change and is now doing Aged Care in a nursing home in Ulverstone.

This is all of us at Jo's house - Thats Sandra in the red jumper
Denise, Denise is the very first biological family member I met last year, lives in Port Sorell with Steven and their son Aaron. Their other son, Shaun lives nearby in Hawley with Reg.

David, my new brother - lives in Deloraine and works at Westbury. He is also the new Fire Chief at the Deloraine fire brigade after working as an ambulance officer for many years. This is David winning a worksafe award

I also have another brother, Shane, who I haven't met yet, he lives on the west coast and works on a fish farm on Macquarie Harbour.

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my eldest daughter  Angelina

Angelina is a hairdresser and part owner of the salon "Hair on Riseley" at Kings Meadows
Her and her partner Joe have a house at Hadspen and they have a dog called Jimi.

Ang and Joe like to travel, they have been to Thailand and Europe and Ang went to Bali and Thailand on her own. This year they are going cruising the South Pacific.

youngest daughter - Krissie

Shaun - Me - Denise - Krissie (Taken on the first day that I met Shaun and Denise)
Krissie lived at St Helens for over 3 years on her own. She did a course at the North East Education and Training Centre while there and now has a Certificate in Business.

Last year Krissie had an operation and had to be flown from the east coast in the Royal Flying Doctor plane. A few months after that we moved her into a purpose built unit on the ground floor of our house.
This year Krissie hopes to get a little dog as a companion.

Aunty Joyce
Aunty has finally decided that at 94 yrs old, she would be better off staying in a nursing home bed at the Campbell Town Hospital. She is still in a lot of pain after a hip operation two years ago and we hope that now she is in the hospital they might be able to help manage the pain.

Stephen:
He works for Glass Supplies as a truck driver and has a girlfriend, Shirleen, at George Town. His kids, Mark (working as a refrigeration mechanic) Alex (finishing his gap year) and Kate, who is off to uni this year! Can't believe they are all growing up so fast!!

Stephens family at Kates 18th B'day - from left: Alex, Stephen. me, Mark, Kate, Krissie and our cousin John

And Last but not least : PETER

After being transferred to Queenstown for a year, then St.Helens for 6 months, then George Town for 6 months, managing the Post Offices in these towns, he found that he enjoys working at George Town so much, he has decided to stay there until retirement


Thats Peter with the other love of his life - the caravan at St Helens