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Jazzescrapper
September 19, 2006

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This is for SCRAPVIVOR WEEK 5


What a challenge this was. I haven't done a page without pics before and it was tough.


Here is my book (I mean journaling):wink:


I have a confession to make(title)
I never really wanted to get married and I never wanted to have children...that spoken like a true teenage girl. This was what I said from about 16 years old on. I had done a little babysitting, enough to know that never EVER would I have children and once I started dating. well I decided that it would be more fun to have different guys then to be tied down to just one.Boy if only there had been a crystal ball back when I was sixteen.


I was 18 years old and it was spring break and a group of friends and myself were headed off to Mexico to have the time of our lives. My mom sent me off with a kiss and a warning not to meant any native men. She assured me that long distance love affairs never last. I, of course rolled my eyes and off wewent. We lived it up and partied and danced. In the mornings we slept in and went and laid out on the beach. Our second night there I had gotten locked out of the trailer and all my friends had left. They thought I had gone with one group and the other group thought I had gone with the other. I got back up to the trailer to find it locked and dark. I was 18, a girl, and alone in Mexico. not a good combo. I saw a policemen driving up and I had seen him for the whole weekend. He was always working. I walked up to his car and asked if he spoke English. He did. I nexted asked him if her ever got to take a break. He asked what that meant and I told him. He got out of the car and went for his gun belt. My heart dropped but was relieved to see him remove the guns and say, "I'm on a break now." that was almost 23 years ago. The girl who was NEVER going to get married found the one man who she knew was her future husband. We spent almost the rest of the trip together, we did very little sleeping but spent most of the time talking and getting to know one another. It was the most refreshing thing. To not have to fight off some guy and to actually have one talk and listen. It was so much fun. I also never had anyone ask if they could kiss me before. I came home from that trip and annouced that I found the man I was going to marry. I really don't think anyone took me serious at first but for 2 years I went back and forth to Mexico until I smuggled my husband over the border. That is a whole other story.


We got Married 2 weeks later and our journey began. We had talked about having kids but couldn't come up with a reasonable amount of kids. He wanted 12 and I wanted 2. We wanted to start our family immediately but found that it was going to be a very heart breaking experience. I, for some reason could not get pregnant. We tried for 3 years with no success what so ever. We heard that my 16 year old niece was pregnant and giving the baby up for adoption, we called my brother, we told himour story of not having any luck conceiving and he spoke with my niece. I did explain we hadn't sought out medical advice as to why we weren't able to have a baby. We got a call later that night, she would love to have us adopt her baby. All the years we tried to have kids my number of how many kids I wanted increased with the last number being 4. Three months after we got Josh, I started to feel sick. I thought it was the stress of a new baby and financial troubles but it never went away. On our 4th anniversary my mom bought a pregnancy test. I took it and you guessed it, I was pregnant. I was never so happy to throw up in my entire life. Josh and Steven are 1 year and 1 day apart. 7 weeks later, with the approval of my Dr. I was pregnant again and Jillian was born 10 1/2 months after Steven was born, Nin weeks later Zachary was concieved and born 1 year and 8 days after Jillian. That was my 4th and final child until I was ready to leave the hospital and I burst into tears saying I didn't want to be done. My dear husband looked at me and said, "I never said we had to be." That was all that neede to be said and we went on to have 2 more kids. Jared and Jeremy, born 2 years apart. I guess my body was trying to tell me something. We thought we were done and 3 years later we found out we were pregnant again. We were shocked but I was fine with it. We ended up having a misscarriage and decided we were going for #7 and we did. Mitchell brought up the rear 4 years after Jeremy.


My word of wisdome to all of you, Josh, Steven, Jillian, Zachary, Jared, Jeremy, and Mitchell is this. Never say never, because you really don't know what the future will hold for you. I love you all very much and I'm so glad I didn't listen to my teenage brain.


I Love You
Mom


Products used:
PP-KI memroies
ribbon- stampin up
metal charm and paint-MM
flowers-Michaels silks and primas
rhinestones-Michaels
buttons-MM


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