This First Person column is the experience of Maggie Campbell, a wife, mother and sous chef living in New Annan, P.E.I .
For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please see the FAQ . As a child growing up on P.E.
I., I always imagined I would one day raise my children on my family's homestead. A beautiful property in Irishtown, just west of French River, with two two-storey homes, green fields as far as you could see and a little cherry orchard.
It was my grandparent's pride and joy and was built and added to by multiple generations of my family. I vividly imagined walking to Cousins Shore with my children in summer, having family meals in the fall made from the food we grew and cozy story times around my gran's old piano. I wish this is how my story played out.
But it was too difficult to divide the land between the many grandchildren when my grandparents died, so it was sold to a neighbouring farmer — never to be called home again by the Campbells who lived and loved there for a century. First Person I was on the road to financial stability but now even a trip to the grocery store gives me anxiety CBC P.E.
I. First Person FAQ I'm 32 now and married to a wonderful hard-working man who was born and raised fishing lobster in Stanley Bridge, P.E.
I. We have three beautiful children and pets we love. We're content.
Our oldest son recently told me he'll build me my dream house when he becomes an engineer one day. He's seven. He asked me to describe that dream house a.
