In January 2003 I met this really great guy. A man who rocked my world and made me the happiest I had ever been. We moved in together in August 2003 and decided to see where things went from there. My children loved him and he LOVED having the little boys he never had. He bounced around to a few different jobs and then we talked about his desire to drive truck. He said he had always wanted to do it, but was never married to anyone he could trust enough to be gone that long from. Well, first off he started driving school buses and got his Class B CDL. First baby step.
In 2004 he proposed to me. Oh, my ring was the prettiest I had ever seen. He and my boys took me out to dinner and he popped the question. (He was really upset that I knew the waiter through my Mother and that that said waiter, he felt, took away his romantic moment, by dropping by the table at that exact moment.) He got over it, so off we went making wedding plans...
As we were making these BIG plans we were also talking and tossing around the idea of Tom going to trucking school. We looked over several schools, but wanted to wait until after our wedding.
In September 2005 we had a fairytale wedding. Beautiful church service, lots of friends and family and the reception venue was to die for. I don't think either of our feet ever touched the ground that day. A Week later we went on our honeymoon and had the time of our lives....Then reality when we got home. Time to choose a school for Tom.
We did even more research, looked at and talked to recruiters from so many different schools I lost track of who was who. Then one day Tom came home and said he made up his mind. He plays the bugle and had been out playing a military funeral that day. The cemetery was right next to the thru-way and he saw one companies truck go by over and over again. This assured him that he would be able to get home since they ran strong in this area.
Early 2006 he was off to school and gone for, if I remember right 6 weeks. SIX WEEKS?!?!?! OMG!!! Well, while it was tough we talked everyday on the phone and right before he graduated I packed up my truck and drove down to Millington, TN (Memphis area) so be there when he did. He then came home with me for a few days and back out again with a trainer for another SIX weeks. Screw that! THREE weeks into that deal I was back in the truck and driving to Maryland just to get ONE night with him! LOL
Now he has been driving ever since, started with SWIFT and was a trainer for them, came to a local company called Troyer Transportation (didn't get enough miles to make money) and is now with Shaffer and a trainer for them. I have become accustomed to his being gone so much, but I do still have down days. Days where I feel my right arm is gone.
We are each others rock, the one we cry with when we are lonesome and when we just want for him to be home NOW! LOL This blog is dedicated to my loving, strong, handsome and just all around amazing Truckin' "Daddy"...I love you baby!
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