My First Blog

Hello and Welcome to my first blog on travelling the world with MJ. My name is Nicky and I am the very proud Mummy of a 19 month old boy we lovingly call MJ.

To be completely honest it was another blogger (Mary @ The world is a book. Thank you Mary) who gave me the idea to start this blog as she thought that our upcoming trip might be interesting to read about (more on this later). 

About MJ and I... I was born and grew up in Brighton, England, but have also lived in Belgium, the USA and the Middle East. I met and married an American and we lived in California and Ohio until his death afterwhich I returned home to the UK. My husband, Mike and I had always planned to travel the world when we retired and he had even requested that in the event of his death that his ashes be spread near Austrailia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR).

So I bet you are wondering where and how does MJ come in this story. Before he passed away Mike and I had tried for years to start a family even undergoing an In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) procedure. The IVF implantation was unsuccessful, but the doctors froze several embryos for future treatment. Six months after Mike died I returned to the USA and underwent a second implantation procedure, from which MJ was born.

So we come back to our upcoming trip in 2013 when MJ, my Mum and I are undertaking a world cruise in Mike's memory. We will be gone nearly four months and we are planning to spread the ashes at sea at the end of the trip and whilst they will not directy on the GBR, I think he would have been pleased to have travelled the world with his son.

This blog will be our record of our experiences whilst on this trip.

Hope you enjoy reading them...