We had both had placed ads on there, I was just looking
around one day when I ran across his ad.  I figured what
did I have to lose by sending him an email to see if he would be
like the others and NOT reply to me.  I send him a short
email telling him to check out my personal ad and that
if he was interested to email me back.  I did that before
leaving to go to my parents for the Kentucky Derby Party
that they have every year.  Not thinking while i was there that i
could have check my email from their computer. Im a blonde
don't laff at me :PI did when i got home BUT was unable
to log on.  Go figure it was AOL then lol I was final
able to connect on Thursday the 10th of May.  Bruce had left his phone
number so i logged off to call him.  After about 15 minutes of thinking about
what i was going to say to him i dialed the number to find out that he
left to go to the store and that i could call him back in about 15 minutes.
I did call him back and we talked for about 1 hour, and he had
to get cause he had to get ready for work.  Bruce told me
that if he had time that he would call me from work on his break.
He did :)  a few times and I thought it would b OK for him to stop by
for a few minutes after he got off from work that night.

He worked making peanut butter at a local company. I gave him directions
and about 11pm that night he called to tell me that he just got off
and would be over in a few minutes since he was only a few blocks
away from my house.  He sat and watched TV and talked
for a long time that night.  My kids were fast
asleep in their rooms by this time.

I had told him just about everything about me,
from being in the middle of a divorce that I wanted.
To how my kids were doing in school.

We ended up falling a sleep and before we knew
realized it, it was another day.

Bruce told me that he had to go back to his place to
take care of a few things and that he would be back in a
few minutes.  That was OK with me, but i thought that
he wouldn't come back.  BUT he did :)

I got a chance to let him meet the boys that afternoon
when they got home from school, they both thought that
Bruce was a really nice person, just kinda scared of getting
to close to someone only to have them leave again.
They gave Bruce the blues for awhile until they found out that he wasn't
out to hurt them but out to get to know them.

It was the last week of school and soooooooo much was going on,
NyKolis's school had a 1 mile walk, i was debating if
I should ask Bruce if he would like to join us.

I did ask him and he said that he would love to go with us.  We all
had a good time that day, i think that Bruce kinda had just
as much fun as the kids did.

We ended up living together and talkin about movin to our own house,
either one of us could afford to move at the time.

In July of 2001 we was having a really hard time with the communication thing,
always at each other over silly stuff now if i think about it.
I also found out that i was pregnant and scared since we
was at each other all the time.

I did tell him i felt that he had the right to know about it.
I know that i was happy and scared at the same time
if that is possible to do, I had a miscarriage in 98 and
thought that i would have another one.  Bruce told me all the
time that everything would be OK and that so would I.

I went to the doctor for my appointment and
everything was OK just like Bruce said, but i had heard those
words from the doctor before even tho he had told me that
there was about a 10% chance of it happening again.
To me that chance was still there.  Bruce went to
just about every appointment that I had and he was always
asking the doctor questions about me as well as the baby.

There was even times that he would demand things
like when i was 5 months and we still couldn't find
a heart beat.  He asked and we got and just 10 days before that
I had asked or one.... i guess daddys-to-be do
have power with doctors.  We was hoping g to find out
what we was havin but not this time.  We would have to wait until my next
ultrasound, at 36 weeks.  Bruce had told me from the time i told him that we
was having a GIRL... when people would as him "How do you know?" he would
tell them " im the one that put it there, I should know what it is!"

Well on Sunday March 24th 2002 Tameryn was born and
Bruce was right there beside me, after all that i had put him through.
He was still there to support me mentally and to me that is the greatest thing of all.
 

We are now MOVING forward

YES we are :)