TMI Tuesday #1

I am going to call today TMI Tuesday. (Too Much Information Tuesday)It is sort of borrowed and created by me at the same time. There is another TMI Tuesday however, I will not be posting on my blog the kinds of things they want to know about a person. I will be taking this opportunity to tell a story of my past. Some of you will like this while other will think it is TMI and won't care. Either way this is my blog and what I say goes. I need a place were I can write down my memories from my life story. My sister and I always joke about the fact that we are writing a book. Well here's one for the book.

(Kelsea, Lynsey,Pooh, Bethany, Echo, Noah, Christopher, and Chris. Disney July 2005)

Title: Where Did All Those Children Come From?

Chris and Debbie got married really quickly. She already had a son named Andrew. They had two daughters together really fast, Lynsey and Kelsea. Their marriage was not a good marriage. My husband then was not a good husband or a good father. In the end they divorced and things got really bad for Chris. He did not fight in court for his girls, instead they had a no contest divorce and in the decree it only gave him visitation to his daughters. That was another really big mistake in his life. He just wouldn't ask for advice and he wouldn't take any. So the next couple of years he paid his child support but he didn't really see his kids. When he was suppose to have them they went with his mother, Pat. So, Grandma played a big part in the kid's life. These next couple of years were really rocky. My husband began to smoke and drink. He was in and out of jail for DUI's and driving without insurance. The drinking got really bad. He ran around with a lot of woman. Then he met up with, Patricia. Anyway, he ended up having a son with her, Christopher. When he wouldn't marry her she had the son and did not put his name on the birth certificate. She did sue him for child support and then after she won she told him that they were a package deal. So, my husband walked away. This was one of the biggest mistakes my husband ever made. So, he started living with a woman who beat her kids and then said that he did it so he went to jail. In the end it was proven that he did not do it so they let him go. When I had met him he was living in a run down trailer, and had just go this truck and his driver's license back.

When I met him we had so much fun together. We really did a lot of talking. We just connected. He said all the right things. So, we met in early August and I took him home over Labor Day weekend to meet my family. They loved him. When we got back to Georgia he proposed. We talked about getting married in February, but my sister was already coming to stay 3 weeks with me in November. So, we got married November18, 2000. Chris and I welcomed baby Bethany into the family on August 14, 2001. Then in the spring of 2002 we went to court and got visitation set up with Christopher. Baby Noah was welcomed into the family on April 19,2004. So, every 1st and 3rd weekend we had all 5 children. On the 2nd and 4th we just had Bethany and Noah. Chris and I really wanted all the children to live with us full time. We took Debbie to court in August of 2007 and won Temporary Custody of Lynsey and Kelsea. Just recently we had a conference with Patricia's Mom, Aleta. She has told us that Christopher is to a point in his lifewere a boy needs his Father. So, Christopher is going to come and live with us full time starting in June 2008. So, now we have 4 children all the time except for the 2nd and 4th weekends when Lynsey and Kelsea are with their Mom. However, starting in June it will be 5 children at our house full time. Here are the children's ages:

Lynsey is 14. She will be 15 in June. (This means she can get her learners permit to drive.) Kelsea is 12.

Christopher will be 10 on April 18th

Bethany is 6 ½.

Noah will be 4 on April 19th

WOW! That was alot of fun. I will be making other installments at a later date. As you can see there are alot of loop holes in my story. If you have any questions feel free to ask. I have always lived my life as an open book.

Michael Johns Dolly Parton American Idol 4/1 2008

This is Michael Johns singing It's All Wrong. I loved it. This was the only song that he's done that I have loved.
I love the way he says
It's all wrong but it's alright

I also have to say it makes me want to close my eyes hold my lover tight and tell sexy love and lies. (words in the music)
Believe it or not the song was written by Dolly Parton

Thirteen Thursday #1 things I started and quit

So I have decided that I would like to be one of those Thirteen Thursday people. Today will be my very first one. I wrote a really great one and saved it at work so I will have to use it next Thursday. So for this Thursday it will be: (drum roll please)

13 things I started and quit over my lifetime:

13.) Smoking. I had my first cigarette when I was an early teen. I was at a pack a day by the time I was 21. I quit smoking when I got pregnant with Bethany. I had just turned 25. I never smoked again.

12.) Weight Watchers. I have started and quit WW about four times in the last six years. One day I will really take the weight off.

11.) My CNA job. I started working at the nursing home on the island in the fall of 2000. I quit that job in December 2000.

10.) Myspace. I have a myspace. I used to go on it all the time. However, I can't really stand it to be honest so I quit updating it.

9.) Drinking. I used to love a good rum and coke. However, in 2001 I joined the church and turned away from it. Now I didn't say this was easy and I surely didn't say that every once in a while I don't think 'wow do I need a drink' then I shake it off.

8.) Listening to talk radio in the morning. I was listening to the local talk and by the time I would be to work I'd be fired up about some stupid thing that you can't change anyway. So who need that crap in the morning.

7.) Spicy food. I hate anything hot. I don't like it burning my mouth, tounge, or any other body part.

6.) Cleaning my daughters room. Listen I have just come to the conclusion that I don't care if she wants to look like that. Whatever. Don't come cryin' to me when you can't find your junk.

5.) Working on my family tree. I am just burnt out. My sister is burnt out as well. We only are good at it when we are both working on it together.

4.) cooking meals in my kitchen. We have been without our kitchen for almost 3 weeks now. It will be finished next week.

3.) sleeping on my back. I MUST sleep on my left side or I cannot fall asleep.

2.) stayin up late on work nights. It is way past my bedtime right now. I like to be asleep by 10 at the latest.

1.) Thinking I am going to change my husband. He is who he is and all I can change is myself. Now don't get me wrong I still have hope that one day he will wake up and get me totally however until that day comes I will stop trying to change him.