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[rdy2rac with]

Well, veryone else is doing it so now I'm going to also. (I can't resist the peer pressure anymore)

My name is Katy. I met my husband Rob in elementary school. He was a grade ahead of me w/my sister. Well, we went all through school together as friends. We used to get together w/a group of friends once a week to play wallyball. After I graduated high school, the guy I was dating decided he wanted to be free (he got held back for the second time as a senior) & I told myself that he wasn't worth getting upset over since I knew before we dated that he was a pathological liar & just never belived anything he said. So I decided that I just needed to go out & have fun w/my friends & enjoy life again. Well I must have been in the right frame of mind because after that I started looking at Rob a different way. I started flirting more w/him (I flirt w/everyone) & made sure that when we all carpooled that I was in his truck.

We dated for 5 years then decided we would get a house together (we both still lived w/our parents). The next week we were out shopping at Meijer's & he said well since we're already planning on living together what do you say we get married & I said OK. We made most of the plans that night while driving. I told him I wanted the big decisions (when, colors, where) done before anyone else knew that way I wouldn't have to worry about them trying to impose their thoughts on our wedding. I know I'm cold sometimes but I knew what I wanted I can be harsh sometimes & that just saved a lot of headache because I could just tell them that the decisions were done already.

We were married on April 29, 2000. My dress was designed after the gold ball gown in Beauty & the Beast (my fav movie) & my mom arranged it so that after we walked back down the aisle my dog Winston was waiting outside the church. I had said the I wanted to get a wedding picture w/us & him. We had a wonderful day & all the people at my work told me that we had to get married again because they had such a good time at our reception.

[rdy2rac with]

We had our first child on February 2, 2002 (02-02-02) at 3:22 P.M. Rob had joked that it would be cool if I had her at 2:22 but I just had to hold her in that extra hour. :rolleyes: Our daughter's name is Veronica. We couldn't agree on what her middle name should be so we left it open & when she is old enough to make the decision she can give herself a middle name. (I wanted it to be my maiden name & he didn't)

Veronica is now almost a year old. She is walking pretty good. She is a very happy baby. I awlays joke that we lucked out because she got her dad's temperment instead of mine.

Winston does extremely well with Roni. He was raised among children so he is very relaxed around them. He lets her play w/his cheeks, sit on him, take stuff out of his mouth, & do just about anything she wants to him.

[tommysgirl18]

Hi and welcome.......anything else you want to fill us all in on?

[rdy2rac with]

Originally posted by tommysgirl18
Hi and welcome.......anything else you want to fill us all in on?

haha :lol: What do you want to know? I'm an accountant during the week & a drag queen on the weekends. Drag queen = drag racing not cross dressing. We take several trips a year to go to drag races. My husband races at those, but I plan on showing my truck at some of them also.

I come from a HUGE family. I am number 4 of 5 biological daughter. There is also 5 adopted brothers (2 of which have passed away) & 5 adopted sisters. Yes my mom is insane & I have the papers to prove it. :silly: My dad is very sane because he doesn't live there during the week. He lives w/tommysgirl18 (my sister) & goes home (about 110mi) on Friday night for the weekends.

Wanna know more? Just ask, I'm a pretty open person. I tend to tell people exactly how I feel (one of the reasons why I wasn't allowed to talk to my mom while I was pg).

[andrea]

hi just stopping bye to go :wave:

[rdy2rac with]

Whooray, somone other than my sister stoped to say hi! :D Thanks Lovey & hi right back atcha!

[honeybunny]

I must ask... did all 15 of you live at home at one time? How old are all the kids in your family? Just curious. I come from a small family, just me and my sister, so I'm fascinated by large families. Do you have pictures of everybody?

[tommysgirl18]

I see how much I rate :p j/k

Do you want to take this one??

I will find some pictures from the wedding that has only some of them in it.

[Csara]

Hi Katy :wave:

I must've missed this thread while I was away. Too cute that you knew your hubby in elementary school. My husband and I went to elementary school together too, but we didn't actually meet/become friends until college........however, if you ask him, he'll tell you he had a crush on me way back then! :D

[rdy2rac with]

Originally posted by honeybunny
I must ask... did all 15 of you live at home at one time? How old are all the kids in your family? Just curious. I come from a small family, just me and my sister, so I'm fascinated by large families. Do you have pictures of everybody?

Actually honey, not everyone lived at home at once. The 5 biologics we in the house at the same time, but by the time they started adopting the older 2 were out of the house. It seemed as 1 peson moved out, they adopted another. Right now, my Mom lives about 2 hours away from the younger 4 biologics (the smart ones) & she has 9 kids in the house w/her. We all grew up sharing rooms. Bunk beds were a must in our house.

[rdy2rac with]

Here's the most recent family pic I have. This is my parent's & siblings at Disney in FL. This was before a couple of adoptions so there are still some kids missing from here. BTW, that's Tommysgirl18 behind Eeyore's head. ;)
http://www.f150online.com/galleries/images/1827-2822-49287.jpg

[tommysgirl18]

With our family you can never get a most recent picture because the family is always changing.

Here is a family picture from my wedding last May.

[honeybunny]

Wow! I don't know them, but I'm tempted to call your parents saints. Love the pictures. I was just telling my husband the other day that I would never, ever have more than 4 kids (unless the last one turned out to be multiples). What a busy house they have! :family: :family:

[tommysgirl18]

I am sure that Katy would agree with me when I say that our mom is not a saint, she is insane!

Our dad stays with me and my hubby during the week to regain his sanity.

P.S. the wedding picture is actually missing two of our brothers and two of our sisters. They were at my house with the babysitter.

[Csara]

Originally posted by tommysgirl18
I am sure that Katy would agree with me when I say that our mom is not a saint, she is insane! LMAO...that is too funny! Whatever the case...she and your dad MUST be extremely caring and giving people. I think it's great that they have given all those kids a home and family! :)

[rdy2rac with]

Yes, I agree, our mom is insane & I can pull her medical recordxs to prove it. :D Seriously, our mom was in the phsyco ward (for several months) while tommysgirl18 was very young & then again a couple years ago (for about a month). It's my theory that my mom has a problem, I think that she enjoys the feeling of all the praise when she adopts another kid, that after it wears off she gets so down that she has to go out & get another one so that she can feel that way again. It is helpful to point out that all the kids they have adopted are special needs or have a chance of inheriting some disorder from their birth parents.

[meliz]

Wow. Yer folks are pretty amazing people. Those kids may not have had a future without them (or without their sisters-- that's you guys!). Maybe if your mom could remind her herself of this fact more often, she could cope better?

[rdy2rac with]

We have tried several different angles to help her see that if she takes in too many kids she will be doing more harm than good (she's very close to that point now). We have tried telling her that if she wants to help take care of babies that she shouldn't have moved so far away from all of us since we're all starting to have our own kids now. The only way she gets to see our kids is if we send them up when dad goes home for the weekend (not happening w/the young ones), or if we drive up there ourselves (she doesn't drive).

People were shocked after I had Veronica when they would ask if my parents had seen her & I told them that my dad had (he stopped by a couple weeks after she was born) but my mom had only seen pics until she was almost 6 months old.

Side note: sometimes we (the 5 biologics) sit around discussing our parents & try to figure out how we (well the majority or us) turned out so stable. Then we remember that it's because of our Dad, he did everything in his power to give us a stable home environment even when mom wasn't stable. Sometimes we all went to live w/family friends (we have a pic of 4 of us in 1 bed), sometimes we got split up between other family friends & yet other times our grandma (his mom) was there to take care of us during the day while he was at work.

Csara: as I told tommysgirl18 the other night, I've thought about telling our mom (& my hubby's mom & SIL) about this forum because I think they would enjoy it, but then I get selfish because if they're on here I can't really say how I feel about them, his mom & SIL especially since I tell my mom how I feel anyway (she just doesn't always listen).

[tommysgirl18]

I agree whole heartedly!!! As much as we have to love her because she is our mom, she has gotten herself in over her head.

We all love our siblings.....mainly the older ones because we have gotten the chance to know them since they were babies. But the newer ones, we don't know all that well. If they lived closer maybe that would be another story but it is not.

You know Kate, I don't remember all the other stuff about getting sent to others houses, but I remember when grandma was there. I remember going out shopping with her and going out to lunch while dad was at work and mom was at home. I even recall some of the time when mom wasn't there and it was just us 5 with dad.

[rdy2rac with]

Min, you might not remember because you were so young. You know how bad my memory is but I actually have memories of these stays. I know the time we all stayed together was at Louise Marchans, & I remember me & Beth staying together w/Thane (or was it Kitty?). I also remember staying at Sandi & Ed's, I got in trouble because I was having a midnight snack when I should have been sleeping (I did that often back then).

[tommysgirl18]

I remember spending time with Louise Marchand. I also remember spending lots of time over at Elsie's house. (the lady that owned Ray's house before him.)

[rdy2rac with]

Well there has been alot on here this weekend. I went down to Tennasee over the weekend (left Friday afternoon & got back Sunday afternoon) with my Dad. We were taking one of their adopted kids to a new home because she was getting violent with some of the other kids & at school. So after 3 long dayts of driving I got home to a house in the same state I left it (3 loads of laundry to be folded, more to be washed, toys all over the place & botlles soaking in the sink waiting to be cleaned). Is it too much to ask to have at least some of it done? My hubby was home all weekend (he works midnights) except when working & all he did was bring up 2 of the loads to be folded (& left them in the living room) & washed 1 load of bottles (only cuz he needed some). Did I mention that Veronica was at his parent's house while I was gone? So he didn't even have to worry about her tearing the house up. It was just him & the dog.

Well, I got just about everything caught up (laundry is still running) so I'm sitting here catching up online & soaking my feet in a foot spa that I got for christmas 2 years ago. I'm glad I took my homework on the trip with me & got it done, that's one less thing I had to worry about when I got home.

Ok enough of my pit party, I think I'm going to soak a little longer then get to bed early.

Robert if you read this, I want something nice for Valentine's day. I think I deserve it & I'm sure monkey would agree. ;)

[SJTaylor]

:wave: Hello and Welcome that is a nice big family that you have there I love the wedding pic :)

[Csara]

Hey Katy! :wave: Just want to make sure you aren't still stressing! Did you get anything nice for Valentine's day?

[rdy2rac with]

Hey all, nope not stressing. I usually get pissed (can I say that here?) about housework stuff but after a day or so I'm fine. He just irritates me because I know he did most of the stuff when he lived at home (although his mom did all his laundry & put it all away for him). I want to tell him that the maid is off duty because she feels neglected & unappreciated (sometimes I actually say something along this line to him). He just seems to forget that he was brought up w/a very strong southern family (women in the kitchen, men everywhere else) & I was brought up where my dad did all the shopping (even the feminin products), always helped w/the housework & the only reason why my mom was home everyday was because she had a sickness (agoraphobia =fear of open/crowded places).

Anywho, he bought me a Slurpee (frozen coke) for V Day. He had it sitting in the cupholder of my truck when I went to work.

Hey Jester, anytime you want to talk trucks or cars give a holler. My parents finally gave me their 1968 Ford Torino GT. :beer: