Promise.....

Well, I have received overwhelming response to No More!  Happiness Only!  Although, silly me!  Got the date wrong!  As you can tell I like to do my blogging late at night so I thought that is was the following day.  It was not.  I am a mother of 5 children and this is my ME time...Things are too chaotic during the day.  Its hard enough to keep Jhude, 3 in the house for longer than 10 minutes while it is nice let alone long enough for me to express my thoughts.  One thing you will find out from reading my blog is that I am VERY overprotective!

I remember when I found out that I was pregnant my father was a little nervous we will say... Yes nervous.  I was a 20 year old beauty school student living with her sweet heart.  Jeremy and I were SUPER excited and  broke!  Oh, I look back on how broke we were and I giggle how far we have made it.  Anyway ( My ADD is getting in my way of getting to the point)  I went to my father with my mother by my side ( I just couldn't do it!  so she told him) and his response was worse than I expected.  Well, my father is who I always look to for advice and acceptance. He was disappointed! I cried and cried.  I seriously disappointed my father!  Now I know you are thinking "What about her mother?"  Right?  Well, you have to understand something, my mom is more like my best friend.  I can tell her anything.  Yes I want to respect her and have her as a parent but as I have gotten older things are just different.  I was one of  "Daddy's Little Girls"  So after talking to my Daddy ( yes I still call him that!)  I realized he was not disappointed he was just NERVOUS and of course a little sad! 

I was his first born, first daughter, and my life and his was flashing before his eyes.  I was still his baby,  now I was having a baby.  There was no stability in my life as a job other than the little waitress job I went to and beauty school.  Jeremy and I did have a little home we rented from his grandparents and heck I cant even remember where he worked at the time.  He wasn't very fond of Jeremy ( I do know that) but mainly he was concerned about how involved he would be (Jer and I were not married).  The one thing I remember so clearly him saying to me.  " Amanda, I have raised you, I am not raising your children, this is a BIG responsibility.  I really want you to think about this." 

I thought to myself.  What is he possibly suggesting??  He wasn't, he just really wanted me to THINK.  I vowed to him that day that I would be the best parent I could be and that I would not just leave my children for fun and activities ( I am not stating that parents can not have fun, i am saying the every weekend going out stuff was not going to happen... you have to remember I wasn't even 21 yet)  and I was going to LOVE this baby with everything I had!  I would do everything to make him/her happy, safe, and loved. = the OVERPROTECTIVE part.  JHETT was born in November 2001 and forever changed every member of my family's lives.  He also is the twinkle in his Papa's eye. 

My parents have helped me and my husband over the last 18 months is raising our children while I had that dreadful job.  I am so thankful for the BOTH of them!! 

Mom, I know that I didn't speak much of you during this blog but I want you to know that I love you VERY much!  When I told my Mom the NEWS, she hugged me and kissed me and said " Everything is going to be GREAT"  Then she went shopping!  LOL!  She bought herself a ring....its her "Jhett RING"  A beautiful contemporary style sterling silver ring with a large Mother of Pearl in the center.  Someday I will give that to his wife... If she will allow me too...( I know you will) ;)