The Reason for the Adventure

    Every new wife looks forward to spending lots and lots of time with her new husband. It certainly is easy to get caught in a fairy tale during the planning process of a wedding and lose touch with what reality will really be like after the wedding. I married Levi on May 13, 2011 and we headed off to Gatlinburg, TN for our honeymoon getaway with nothing but the money we received at the wedding. Ha Ha it was way to easy to spend every drop of the money we made at the wedding during our little one week excursion. When we returned home from our honeymoon, reality hit me like a ton of bricks. My husband was a truck driver, and what do truck drivers do? They drive, all day, everyday, sometimes for months at a time without having time to come home. Just 3 days after returning home from our honeymoon he had to return to work and I would have to "be tough" and spend the entire summer without him. 
    I'm not gonna lie, it wasn't easy. I had to learn things on my own and when the car broke down I had to figure out what to do without his help. I prayed long and hard about the situation of being separated and finally decided that nothing else mattered if I couldn't share it with him; the condo, the car, the job...nothing seemed as vibrant on my own. Levi returned home on Tuesday, August 9 and we began making preparations for me to start coming with him on the road. He joined a brand new company and will be driving solo now, so I get to be his team member...well, the cheerleader really since I can't actually drive the truck, lol. The adventure begins now...