My name is Annette (Parker) Ansley. I am 42 and a single Christian mother of three. My oldest is in college and lives with her boyfriend Andrew. My son is 18 and is giving me fits or at the very least minor twitches. My youngest daughter is 13 and is developed like a baywatch beauty, so yea I have some real sigle parenting issues to discuss with all you single parents. I am a Christian so parenting and being single in these times are a real challenge.
I grew up a military bratt and I loved it , wouldn't change my childhood for nothing. It afforded me the opportunity to see the world, well alot of it at least. I spent a total of eight years in Germany and graduated from Wasilla High School in Wasilla Alaska...Go Warriors!!! Then at the age of twenty one I became a single parent for the first time...wow what an eye opener!! so that led me to first career choice. I went into the military, secificaly the Navy. I loved BootCamp and if the "real" Navy could have stayed like that Iwould have been a lifer!! but going to camp I guess cannot be a profession unless of course you are a camp counselor or Forest Ranger!
I got married for the first time to a man named Anthony Garcia who took off when I was three months pregnant with our son, my second child. Yes I have learned alot of things from these so called Hard Knocks of life, one of which is that I was not a so called "Victom" I knew getting involved with these men were not the wisest choices.
I then got married to a man named Michael Ansley who was by every deffination a alcoholic when we got married, however he kept it hidden quite well for a while. Michael was abusive but not all the time, he would black my eye and then say it would never happen again, and it wouldn't maybe even for a year or two so when I try to explain to people why I stayed in this marriage for sixteen years all I could tell them was he was verbably abusive all the time, but physically on some of the time and I always kinda thought he just didn't mean to, that he lost control that one time. But then when we was married 15 years he hurt his back and started taking pain pills and things got worse, he started taking speed and all kinds of other drugs and it ended up with me and the kids having to get out one night under police protection and moving to Baxley Georgia, which was not my choice but was the only place where I had family that could help during this time.
I ended up living here in Baxley going on three years now, now its not somewhere I would like to stay for ever, but it is a nice place to raise kids and the realestate is cheap here. I started this blog to have a place to really get to know other Single Parents but specificaly Christian single parents and for us to share our stories, cry together laugh together and help each other as much as possible. If there are any of you that have any prayer concerns please comment me and I will pray for your need as soon as I get them. I look forward to meeting every one!! :)
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