Monday, August 12, 2013
Hey ya'll I'm typically not the kind of girl that does this kind of thing, but after spending little to no time for myself, I know there's other young moms out there going through some of the same thing I face daily. So I'm putting my life out there in hopes to share some common ground with some commonly perfect mommas like myself. Here's my story...I reconnected with a high school classmate, fell in love, all while sharing him with the United States Marine Corps and our two perfect and beautiful daughters. Its never been you typical fairytale story but its always been as close as imaginable. I had my first daughter, Kallie before I met Joseph. Everyone has things they regret. I regret the things I did to get my daughter but NEVER will I regret her. Kallies father and I never really got alone, and I knew we would never last so after breaking up, being a single mom, going through court as well as remediation, we both came to an agreement and to this day are civil for our sweet angel, Kallie. Not but two weeks after Kallie was born Joseph found me and Facebook. For the record, I didn't know why he even sent me a message(we HATED each other in high school). I thought it was a joke or something but we had exchanged phone numbers that day and began texting each other. At the time he was stationed in Washington DC, and I was in our hometown of little ole Asheboro, NC. We lived 5 hours away for the first six months of our relationship. I visited once a month, and after a lot of text messaging, and long phone calls we were engaged and planning a wedding the fall of 2010. Then the full reality of being a military wife hit me in the middle of my forehead. I had the largest lump in my throat when he called on told me the news. "I'm deploying in June... for nine month and I have two weeks to get married." My heart sank. I had two weeks to plan the wedding of my dreams in the wrong season...did I mention IN TWO WEEKS? Thank god I had already found my dress I was COMPLETELY in love with, but I had already choose bridesmaid dresses in fall colors that were going to take eight weeks to get in! Long story short, I have an amazing support system. Every person we knew came together a pulled off a gorgeous garden wedding for my husband and I. So we got married Saturday, he left for DC Sunday( Yup, no time for a honeymoon) and was deployed one month later. Here I was a newly wedded single mom loving my husband across the world. The first deployment is always the worst, cause one year later and changing stations to Jacksonville, NC he was deployed again for nine months. But before he left we had something to celebrate...we were expecting our first child together. Everyone was hopeful for a boy, and swore it was. But on March 2013, Emery was born just in time for her daddy to be there with us. After outgrowing the little space we had and missing seeing my husband everyday and the girls needing their dad, we moved three hours from our home to Jacksonville, NC. We love it here. We have almost been here a year and I'm staying home with the girls watching and teaching them how to grow. I'm planning on furthering my career has a paralegal, so the girls and I can have plenty of spending money. Besides, I've made my girls my life and one day they're going to explore making their own, to having their own life. That all will be heart breaking so I'm creating a life of my own while they're here, so maybe we can all grow together.
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