My story...





For as long as I can remember ALL I ever wanted to be was a mom and a wife. When I was 24 I met the man of my dreams. Although he was 6 years younger than me and my family was very unsure I knew I would marry him. We were together for 8 months and I got pregnant with our daughter. When I was 3 months pregnant he moved to Sacramento. We talked almost every day. I went to visit as often as I could but when I was 5 months pregnant the doctor said I couldn't travel that far anymore. Although I missed him like crazy I knew we would be together after our daughter was born. When I was 8 months pregnant he broke up with me out of nowhere. I was crushed. There I was left to be a single mom. On May 28th 1998 after 18 long hours of labor I had the most beautiful baby girl. Her name is Rebecca Nicole.

In the next year I heard very little from her father. I got it in my head I was going to make him be a dad. So when she was 7 months old I transfered my job and moved to Sacramento and lived with her father and his parents. After about 1 1/2 months with very little help from her father and limited hours at work I decided to move back home where I had the support of my family.

I moved in with my older brother, his wife and son. It was nice living with my brothers family because his wife and I were close and our children are only months apart. After a few months of living with them Rebecca and I moved into out own place. It was very exciting to me but scary at the same time. For the first time we were completely on our own.

Right after Rebecca had her first birthday I found out I was pregnant with her brother. Yes it is so very true it only takes 1 time. I stayed with my sons father because I didn't want both of my children to be without there fathers. After a great pregnancy and only 3 hours of labor on Feb. 24, 2000 I had my son Brendan Andrew. His father and I stayed together until a month before he turned 1. We separated due to a difference of opinion on our priorities.

In December of 2000 I was at work on my day off. I had my children with me as I was putting things in my employees stalkings. I worked for K Mart and was a supervisor. I don't know what made me do it but I stopped what I was doing and I turned around to see my daughters father standing right there. I became weak in the knees. I couldn't believe he was standing there. I had always knew in my heart that someday he would come back to me but this was a very big surprise. We left to go talk and ended up spending the whole day together. I was so happy that he was there. I learned in our talking that he had also had more children. He had twins that same year. He was currently with his twins mother but had told me that things weren't good with them and he wanted his family back. This made me so happy that he finally wanted to be a father to his daughter. We planned for me to make a trip to visit him in Feb. I got my tax return and on Brendan's 1st birthday we went to Sacramento. We spent an amazing 10 days with Chris. But due to the fact that he was still with the mother of his twins we didn't get back together at that time.

Everyone had always told me if I love him set him free and if he comes back it was meant to be. I tryed living by those words and when I had given up hope that we were meant to be he came back into my life once again March of 2002. My job at K Mart was ending due to the store closing so I made the decision to move me and my children to Sacramento to be with Chris. We were a family. We waited a year and a half and on July 18, 2003 my dream came true. I married the man of my dreams. I had finally become everything I had ever wanted to be.

To be continued...