Wife checked out (2)

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When W and I moved back we rented a cruddy little apartment in a not so nice neighborhood. We didn't care, we were happy together. She had a new job and I went back to work at the fab shop I left when I went to move in with her. Everything was going fine, we were in no hurry to get married and just had a good time together. We moved to a better apartment after our six month lease was up and she got a new and better job offer. She accepted it and we were saving money as I too was moving up in my trade. I became foreman over ten guys most of whom were older than me and weren't very happy to be taking orders from a young guy. I never let it bother me.

We saved up for a year and bought our first home. We loved it and worked on the yard every weekend and painted different rooms however she wanted. It was a great time for us. We lived there for a couple of more years before we decided to get married. It was around this time that I got a new job for more money and better benefits but had to work night shift. I was the youngest foreman at a much larger company so they stuck me at night with the degenerates. Then we waited for two more years until we had D. She was the light of our lives. So happy and healthy. There was one problem we had with the house the whole time we were there was it had scorpions. My W is deathly afraid of stinging bugs anyway and these little buggers terrified her to death. She never got stung by one until after D was born and I was at work at night. She called me in a panic screaming that she had been stung and didn't know what to do. She thought it was a lot worse than it was but I knew she was scared and came right home to be with her. After that she was so afraid that the baby would get stung that we decided to sell the house and build a new one.

The house sold quickly and we moved in with her folks. I spent the next year after my regular job building our new home. It was a long year but so worth it. While we were living at the ILs house she got pregnant with S and was 8 months along when we finished the house. W has the most incredible sense of timing. As soon as we get moved in she is having our boy. He was a biggen, nearly ten pounds. W is a very small women but insisted on a natural birth. She made it through the birth with flying colors. Breast fed both babies for 9 months and was a wonderful mother for both of them. I had gone back to working days by this time and everything seemed to be the American Dream in the making. From the upbringing I experienced, this was everything I could have ever wanted.

We were in the house for about 8 months, it was the beginning of September. S was still an infant when a Hurricane hit our area. We had moved our bed to the most interior room of the house and we all cuddled up under it for the worst of the storm. No damage to the house but we lost a few trees and had no power. I sent W and kids to her sisters house 250 miles north and I stayed at the house. Everything was shut down for two weeks, no work no grocery stores no cell phones, I was in heaven. My other male friends that stayed were having a heck of a time too. We were bbqing every day because all of our freezers were full of deer meat and fish that was going to spoil if we didn't cook it right away. We ate like kings for the whole time. We drove around to different neighborhoods helping people clear trees from their yards and pulling people's vehicles out of ditches. Then the lights came back on and back to reality.

Still more yet to come.