An introduction :)
My name is Allison and this blog is specifically catered to my and my husbands growing family!
Alex and I got married on June 9th in 2013 and I can definitely say that was one of the best days of my life. I'm so lucky to have found and married my best friend. He loves my first daughter, Madison, from a previous relationship just like he would love his own child. He met her when she was 10 months old and since then, he's been crazy about her. On September 10th in 2013, we took a trip to Planned Parenthood to confirm several positive pregnancy tests that I had taken over the previous 2 days. I am due with our first child together on April 28th of 2014. We couldn't be more excited about it! And I'm definitely ready to have this baby! Being 35 weeks pregnant is rough.
He is currently active duty in the US Air Force. He left for BMT on October 29th, 2013. Graduation day was December 26th, 2013. I and his mother and father flew down to San Antonio to spend a few days with him after graduation. From there, he transferred to Fort Sam Houston, Texas, where he started tech school. His tech school graduation day was February 26th of this year and he was FINALLY home on the 27th of February. There was some drama in the beginning of March 2014 when I took Madison's biological father to court to get permission to move out of state to Montana, where Alex is currently stationed. We lost the case, unfortunately. It's been really stressful being away from Alex for so long throughout this pregnancy and I was so confident that we would win the case and finally be able to live our life together like we so badly want.
Since losing the case, both of us have come to realize that the only thing that is going to help us is time. I'm not with him in Montana right now because the lawyer I hired said that we had a chance to win if we waited a while to refile to make sure that Madison's father screwed himself over. Before the court date, I had been working full time at the local Goodwill. Alex and I had gotten approved for an apartment close to Goodwill and we had the lease set up to where we could leave with 30 days notice without paying our way out of it. I worked full time with the help of Madison's father being able to take her so I could work those hours.
I put my 2 weeks into Goodwill about mid February before Alex came home. I had no intention of staying since I was confident that I would win the case against Madison's father. But...we lost. So now I don't have a job. Or a car. And I'm low on funds. Alex and I were so hopeful of us being together in the last months of this pregnancy but it was ripped from us because Madison's father doesn't want Madison around Alex. I'm incredibly frustrated and filled with rage at her father, but there's nothing I can do about it. Except wait. I have to wait for him to screw himself over with the standard parenting time.
So far, so good. But Alex and I have a lot of worries that we can't get any answers to because it's only been 3 weeks since we lost the court date. I'm sick of being away from him. I'm sick of Travis (Madison's biological father) thinking he can do and say whatever he wants and get away with it. So along with updates about my family, I'll probably be using this page to vent about my frustrations in being 8 months pregnant and over a thousand miles away from my husband.