The Calm After the Storm...

And by storm I mean shit storm. Wow, so I really intended to get this blog going for some time now. I started right before the birth of my baby girl Luna, but my life has just been completely whacked out for some time now. WE have been through some crazy lows. We have been homeless in a shelter looking for work in a "not so striving workforce" city. After failing to make any progress we flew out to California to stay with our family on a military base. Things got pretty crazy here too. My sister in law decides she wants a divorce, so she kicks her husband out. After that my husband and I take care of her four children and our own child while she lets her life crumble around her. I'm also 8 months pregnant at this time, did I mention that? After months of putting up with an alcoholic, taking care of all the children, and taking care of the house, I finally had my second little girl and my sister in law ends up getting arrested. It sounds sad, but it isn't too bad. Stephen started taking online classes and my brother-in-law moved back in and is taking care of his kids. Now we are planning our next move. We haven't mapped out our plan yet, but we have a few options. There is the plan to go back to West Virginia... but we haven't had too good of luck there these past few years. The next option is to go down to New Orleans and for Stephen to do construction with his uncle (if there is available work), or possibly get a job on the river. Then we are thinking about maybe going somewhere that is cheap to live and start over. Washington seems to be the area of interest for that one. I prefer the west coast for it's "green" living and progressive ideas. West Virginia is full of conservative, religious folk which doesn't suit my interests. The south I have never lived in but it doesn't appeal to me either. I hear of a lot of racism and fighting. I'm just anxious to get started with my life though. I know we can do great things, we just have to stop getting ourselves in shitty situations. I'm excited, and at this point I don't care where we move as long as we are together :)



This is little Miss Luna a year later! She has grown up into a little sweetheart at 16 months old.



This is the new one that I mentioned. Her name is Lucy!