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Bridgett's Diary Entries Diary Navigation: Choose A Diary Entry -------------------- Latest Entry: 7/2/08 -------------------- 10/22/07 7/19/07 4/21/07 3/13/07 2/20/07 1/6/07 10/25/06 9/6/06 8/28/06 7/25/06 7/12/06 6/26/06 6/14/06 6/5/06 -------------------- Bridgett's Introduction

Join me in my adventure called life being the mother of 4 children, in a blended family where the guys out number us girls 2-1!

Introduction

Hello, Hello! Welcome to my crazy, calm, disorganized, boring, nuts, frustrating, totally chaotic,(i think that might cover all aspects) Christian life as a wife and a mother of 3 sons and 1 daughter ! Some of you, the faithful long time readers, already know me or have at least seen my previous Mom's Diary here on iP. But, for those of you who have never seen my dairy or are new here to iP, you never know what you will read here. At times it will be a quick hello and apology for not having a meaty enough, or full entry in a while, because life has been over bearing, and the next thing you know you will wish I would just end it already ,as you my be sitting there for quite a lengthy period to get the entire entry read. As the Diary says, my name is Bridgett (I'm 30 something, you'll eventually figure it out), and as I said earlier, I am the mother of 4 children, 3 sons and 1 daughter. We have Joshua 15, Tyler 11.5, Brianna 8 and James Asher 3 (which we just go by Asher). I and my 3 older children are originally Ohio Buckeye's (lived in TX for a couple years), but the South has become our transplant home, and the South (SC) is where Asher was born. Five years ago I found a wonderful man (again, knew him my Senior year of High Schoo), after having been out of my abusive 1st marriage for 3 yrs, and a year later we were married. Our union did not come easily though. Of course, at the time I met the man that would become my current husband, I had 3 children ages 10 and under, was a full-time college student and worked a full-time job. Also, I lived in Ohio and he lived in South Carolina. And, there was the problem of the ex-husband and father of my children. But, through dedication, patience and love, and after Graduating college and selling my house, we made it to the Alter. Life has not been a breeze, easy or simple by any means the last 4 years, in fact it has pretty much so been quite the opposite(which I will get into in later entries). Pretty much so every aspect of our lives were complicated and very challenging, but of course there were also many happy times. Just weeks after remarrying, moving to South Carolina, getting the kids enrolled in school and trying to get my life unpacked and organized in our new home, the Lord gave us a major blessing, and 9 months later our family grew by one. We had planned, Lord willing, to have at least one child together, as my husband had no children from his first marriage. We had also planned to wait a year or so to try to have a child, to give my children a chance to get used to their new life. Life with a wonderful, loving, caring, father in the house and life living in a new Town and State. But as many of us know, things do not always go as we plan them, but as the Lord plans them.

So there you have a little about us for now. I will tell you more about us in future entries, and of course chronicle life as we go along. Thanks for reading, and hope you enjoy and possibly relate to what I write here. Always feel free to click on my Talk To Me button (please do its nice to hear from my readers and it allows me to know you are out there) and come over to my Diary forum and post any questions, suggestions or similar experiences you may have with me. However I do ask that you respect me, my parenting and my family and do not use profanity or be vulgar in any post on my board. None of us are perfect and I do not claim to know everything or be perfect myslef. Life is not always easy and I deal with things as I can. If you feel the need to put me or any member of my family down then I suggest you do not post.

God bless, Bridgett and crew