This is my first blog. Well, not really....I have been blogging on MySpace for over a year, but this is my first blog on a real, big girl blogging site!!
I have started this blog because my life is full of shenanigans and I guess I feel the need to share those shenanigans with the world. Or at least my family and friends who are not close enough to witness my crazy life. For my first posting...I will catch everyone up.
I was a single parent at 22 years old when my extremely precocious daughter, Piper Katherine, entered my world. She is now almost 7, and well, lets go with INDEPENDENT. Ya, that sounds good, she is independent. Wow..let me tell you.....whom ever coined the term terrible 2's must have left the parenting world at 2 because that was easy compared to 5 and 6. Now we have attitude (and it isnt cute anymore), devience (and it isnt cute anymore), defiance (and that isnt cute anymore either). That being said she is also beautiful, smart, funny, and more important, she is a good kid. She causes more mischief then I thought possible, but she loves her family and she loves her friends. She feels its important to be part of a team and be there for them (aka....soccer starts on the day of the Girl Scout field trip she doesnt want to go to, lol).
On November 8, 2008 I ended my life as a single parent by marrying by best friend, Shawn. We are currently living in Michigan, which is about 1100 miles away from where we want to be. Shawn grew up on a ranch in Western Nebraska in the BEAUTIFUL Sandhills. We met online (yeppers...we are an internet romance success story) in April 2007 and WHAT A DIFFERENCE 2 YEARS HAS MADE!!!!!!!!
We are currently in court hoping to relocate this summer back to NE. We dont belong in Michigan. While I love it here, and I love where I grew up, Nebraska became my home the first time I was there. It is the exact place I have always wanted to raise my family. Unfortunately, it isnt that easy when you share parenting (and I use that term LOOSELY) with someone else. Sooooo, because we agree to disagree I have to ask the State of Michigan if I can relocate with Pippers.
The only part I want people to understand is that this relocation is not coming from a place of hatred for her dad, or vengence/revenge. I have no reason to feel hate or want revenge. All I want, with Shawn, is the life that we know will provide the best possible future for our family. Out there we have a future, we have a family organization that hopefully will be part ours in the long run. It is laid back, quiet, respectful, happy, easy yet not without its challenges, all at the same time. It is safe, small and idealistic. I realize that what is ideal in my book isnt in anothers person. However I do feel that since Piper's dad hasnt made a single decision for her in her 6.5 years, and he has never spent more then 10 days at a time with her (which has only happened twice) that I be allowed to continue to make decisions and be the same parent I have been. Just in another state.
All of you know the gritty details, as we havent kept it from anyone. To be honest, I dont want to get into it again either....I am soooooo tired of having to deal with this!!! For over a year I have been hoping and praying, and now, on April 17, we will hopefully have an answer or at least a direction.
In my spare time (HA) I am the Manager of a hotel. I run a major chain hotel in a middle market. Its on the campus of a university. If these walls could talk....oh wait, they dont have to.....I HAVE A BLOG!!!! Please stay turned for hotel shenanigans...oh boy...I cant make that stuff up!!
My husband, the rancher, is stuck working retail at a farm supply store. Talk about a fish out of water. He is used to being outside in all elements, chasing down cows and fixing the fence the cow just ran through. Now he is working a cash register. We are here because we wanted to try life in MI. We knew it wouldnt be best for us, but for Piper's sake, we wanted to try. How do you ever say Thank You to the person who walked away from the only life he has ever known to relocate to the state with the worst unemployement in the nation? You cant. I simlpy say I Love You.
So thats us in a nutshell.....we are happy, very, very happy however chaotic our life my get. We have each other and that is all that matters.
