How it all started…..

I’m currently laying in bed with a football game on. Tennessee is tied with those pesky kids from Appalachian State. My daughter just destroyed the bathroom and my fiancé is not impressed. When I say destroyed I mean how does a 12 year old girl drop a deuce that a grown man would be ashamed of. My life with kids yes I said kids (my fiancé has 3 of her own from her previous marriage) has been quite the life changer. This is the reason I’m writing this blog. I want to share my transformation and my story with you. I find it entertaining and I believe you will to.

Single life.

Yes this is me. I apparently I think I’m cool. I’m the one on the right, in Vegas, drunk. I’d love to tell you all about this trip but as you know “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas”. This was basically my life. Hanging with my buddies and drinking and basically just doing whatever I wanted. If I wanted to save three paychecks and blow it all in Vegas I did that. I mean why not I’m single I can do whatever I want.

My job was trucking and I would be gone 5 days and come home and goof off for two of them. Then repeat the cycle. It was a job that paid me well which led to some expensive habits. Case in point the 2012 Dodge Challenger I owned. Yes I said owned I’ll get to that in a later blog. Expensive nights out where I would take out 200.00 dollars at the atm before going out then wake up at noon the next day with 37 cents in my pocket. I felt like I had it all figured out.

Fatherhood

Yes I’m claiming single. As I was out galavanting around all over town I had a daughter that lived 600 miles away. I would see her in the summers and Christmas. I was with her mother for 7 years. I left that relationship when I was 29 I’m now 35. I did what most guys do. Paid my child support and tried to call and see her when I could. The weeks I had her in the summers I would stay home with her and do the Dad thing. Although deep down and yes this sounds horrible I’d sometimes count the days she was going home so I could get back to routine. Yes I know sounds horrible. I had a good life in my opinion. Got to do what I wanted and still got to experience the joys of being a dad. Little did I know that was all going to change. A change that no one could’ve prepared me for. A change that no one could’ve ever predicted. A change that no one and I mean no one has ever encountered. As my blog continues I will be sharing once a week how my life went from single to party of 6. I’ll be sharing the good the bad and the ugly of having what I now have. The life changing events that took place on August 4th 2015….

Until next week.

Michael

 

 

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