Year 0 = I am [name_f]Matilda[/name_f] [name_u]Scout[/name_u] Rathbone, a 21-year-old university graduate with a degree in primary teaching. This year I’ve also married my boyfriend of three years, [name_u]Royal[/name_u] [name_f]Marine[/name_f] [name_m]William[/name_m] [name_u]James[/name_u] Lovetale.
Yr1 = Instead of getting a job at a local, English primary school, I decide to see more of the world and head to [name_f]Asia[/name_f] to work with some underprivileged children in [name_f]India[/name_f].
Yr2 = After being away from [name_m]Will[/name_m] for such a long time we decide to go on holiday together (a sort of “second honeymoon” he calls it, to [name_f]Scotland[/name_f]) shortly after arriving back I discover I’m accidently pregnant. It wasn’t expected but we’re thrilled nonetheless, our excitement turns into shock when doctors reveal I’m carrying two babies! Naturally, at 38 weeks, my first son and daughter are born. [name_m]Clark[/name_m] [name_m]Herbert[/name_m] Lovetale weighs 5lbs 3oz and is born at 8:33am, his sister, [name_f]Octavia[/name_f] [name_f]Mary[/name_f] Lovetale arrived 47 minutes later weighing 5lbs 5oz.
Yr3 = My friend from secondary school is involved in a horrific car accident and passes away. She leaves behind a 2-year-old daughter who wasn’t in contact with her father. [name_m]Will[/name_m] and I agree to adopt the toddler; welcome to the family [name_f]Cleo[/name_f] [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u].
Yr4 = Before the children start school [name_m]Will[/name_m] and I decide to take them travelling around [name_f]India[/name_f], I visit some of the schools where I worked previously and am devastated to learn that one of the boys who I’d got close to was now living in an orphanage after the deaths of his parents and siblings. His name is Kiyan [name_m]Ishaan[/name_m], he is eight years old, and after some discussion we decide to formally adopt him and bring him back to the UK.
Yr5 = We inherit an old family home from [name_m]Will[/name_m]'s side in Cornwall. It’s slightly battered and bruised but nothing a bit of TLC couldn’t fix. [name_m]Will[/name_m] wants to sell it but I can see the potential in it. Eventually he relents and we get about restoring it. It’s a solid, three-storey fixture dating back to the Victorian era with six bedrooms across the top two floors. It also boasts two family bathrooms, a third floor toilet, a master bedroom with ensuite, huge country kitchen-diner, spacious lounge, cosy family room, playroom and study. Outside is a patio and enough land for out children to get lost in for hours!
Yr6 = Having learnt so much from my previous trips to [name_f]India[/name_f], I decide to take another year out and visit again. Kiyan comes along to explore more of his heritage, I end up bringing the twins too as there’s no one at home to look after them with [name_m]Will[/name_m] at work, while [name_f]Cleo[/name_f] stays with biological relatives.
Yr7 = With the twins and two adoptions the last few years have been hectic! But now we’ve settled down and everybody is happily in school I’m starting to miss having a little one around the house. [name_m]Will[/name_m] and I conceive a baby and a third son is born! After an agonising labour, [name_m]Marshall[/name_m] [name_m]William[/name_m] Lovetale is born weighing 7lbs 9oz at 7:09pm.
Yr8 = [name_m]Will[/name_m]'s superiors put him in a team to train in Germany, and although I’m worried about leaving with a new baby I know it’s a fantastic opportunity for all of the family. So we leave the house in care of some family members and ship everybody ([name_f]Cleo[/name_f] included) over to Germany where the children go into an international School and I study (with [name_m]Marshall[/name_m] in the crèche.)
Yr9 = I’m yearning for one more baby, just one more daughter to even up the odds. What we get is another set of boy-girl twins. This time born via emergency C-section at 34weeks. [name_f]Nina[/name_f] [name_f]Eleanor[/name_f] Lovetale was first to arrive at 12:15pm weighing 5lbs 2oz. Minutes later second twin, [name_m]Tennyson[/name_m] [name_u]Drew[/name_u] Lovetale, popped into the world weighing a tiny 4lbs 3oz.
Yr10 = Looking after twins - as well five other children! - is exhausting and time consuming. I completely miss [name_m]Will[/name_m] drifting further and further away from me until it’s too late, and I uncover that he’s having an affair! When he’s confronted he admits immediately and begs for my forgiveness. It takes a lot of time for my heart to heal, in which [name_m]Will[/name_m]'s on the sofa, if in the house at all! But eventually I know that it’s for the best of the family that we make amends.
Yr11 = I find out that [name_m]Will[/name_m] rekindled his affair with the woman who almost tore apart our family last year! This I can’t stand and I refuse to fix anything because he’s gone too far. I take the children out of school and move back to our house in [name_f]England[/name_f]. [name_m]Will[/name_m] doesn’t contest me having the house and puts everything in my name - including full custody of all our children - as he pays for a slick divorce. We remain civil for the sake of the kids and he sees them when he’s on leave.
Yr12 = I needed something to occupy me as a full-time mum with no husband! So I turn to Youtube, making short videos about easy life-hacks to get you through having children; mostly about cute but functional décor, disciplining without turning your children against you, and juggling time with so many eager little ones. [name_m]How[/name_m] do I handle the fame? Well I don’t really do anything different, my oldest two girls keep count of my “followers” for me and let me know when I reach a milestone number.
Yr13 = Since moving to Germany and divorcing [name_m]Will[/name_m], the house has come bottom of the pile of things for me to think about. And unfortunately it shows as the children’s bedrooms are incredibly young for them, or not decorated at all in the case of the youngest. My sister enters me for a make-over show and they come to remake ALL of the children’s bedrooms, as well as my own!
Kiyan’s bedroom = http://cdn.homedit.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/simple-boys-bedroom.jpg
[name_m]Clark[/name_m]'s bedroom = https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/86/16/18/861618d1641471fbffa82c470e29cd7b.jpg
[name_f]Cleo[/name_f] and [name_f]Octavia[/name_f]'s bedroom = Rilane - We Aspire to Inspire
[name_m]Marshall[/name_m] and [name_m]Tenny[/name_m]'s bedroom = https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/c0/42/92/c042920cb71e126d7f8fdb87fd3a6b96.jpg
[name_f]Nina[/name_f]'s bedroom = https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/36/e2/bf/36e2bfb469df9957607a4f46f4ff1416.jpg
My bedroom = http://homearea.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/purple-and-white-bedroom-set.jpg
Yr14 = Not wanting to go back to full-time teaching, but needing to do something with my free time, I decide to join the RAF reserve force.
Yr15 = Enjoying the RAF so much, I decide to retrain as a full-time nursing officer.
Yr16 = A relative passes away leaving me a gob-smacking £100,000. I put most of it into saving trust funds for the children’s future. But splurge a little of it by taking all of the children on a well-deserved Mediterranean cruise!
Yr17 = My littlest ones are now 8 and growing up so fast. Not many of my kids like cuddles anymore so I adopt myself a miniature Dachshund puppy called [name_m]Achilles[/name_m]. (http://www.wallcoo.net/animal/miniature_dachshund_2_1920x1200/images/Miniature_Dachshund_EA39168.jpg)
Yr18 = I fancy another slight career change and retrain within the RAF as a mental health nurse.
Yr19 = I get another dog from the same shelter as [name_m]Achilles[/name_m], this time it’s a female crossbreed who is 2 years old. Her name is [name_u]Sandy[/name_u]. (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/MixedBreedFace1_wb.jpg)
Yr20 = With a good stint in the RAF I decide to leave and go back to teaching. Well, it was always going to happen, I just missed teaching so much! I get a job working in Year 5 at the local primary school.
“[name_u]Mattie[/name_u] (41) (and [name_m]Will[/name_m] (39)) with: Kiyan (24), [name_f]Cleo[/name_f] (19), [name_m]Clark[/name_m] & [name_f]Octavia[/name_f] (18), [name_m]Marshall[/name_m] (13), [name_f]Nina[/name_f] & [name_m]Tenny[/name_m] (11); plus [name_m]Achilles[/name_m] (3) and [name_u]Sandy[/name_u] (3).”
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