So now lets get some history!

Ok ... so now I'll give you some history! My mom had me when she was 17, my dad was 19 and in Vietnam. It was the typical age old thing ... good girl meets bad boy kind of thing. I think one reason my mom was with him (besides she did love him), was that it drove my grandparents NUTS! They divorced when I was about 2 or so. My mom went on to college in Rustin, LA., and I stayed with my grandparents in Shreveport.

Growing up I don't remember seeing my dad, or his side of the family very often. Only a few time that I can really remember. My mom came home every weekend. I do remember one time, my dad came to my grandparents and picked me up, I was about 7 or 8, and I think it was around his birthday, cuz I remember being there being a lot of people there. And he asked me if I knew where I was, I guess I said no, so he told me he was only taking me home if I could remember how to get there! I remember that freaked me out some, but I also remember His girlfriend Debbie ended up taking me home, so I didn't have to ride on the motorcycle. At least thats the way I remember it.

My dad was definately the wild child. I don't think I was ever "kept away" from him, he was just never really talked about. I didn't know why, but I never really asked much about him until I was much older. I knew he was a Bandido, and that his club name was Gypsy, but really didn't know much about him or anything about his life.

As I grew I started asking more questions, prpbably more so as an adult wanting to know more about where I come from and what makes me, me. Once I was at my grandmas, in Shreveport, and I was looking at old pictures with my husband Kelly. While we were talking about my dad, I was playing with some papers, and came across his phone number. He had tried to call looking for me! Now I say I wasn't kept from him, but no one told me he had called either. Months later, back home in Texas, we were having a party at my house, I decided to call him. There I was drunk, and in my bedroom closet (luckily its kinds big LOL) calling that number I had found. I got to talk to him, and he was glad, he even called me back the next day! I had not seen or heard from him since I was 13, and here I was about 33! We talked a few more times after that, then I didn't hear from him again.

One of my friends worked at the sherriffs dept., so I called her up, and asked her to run his name, and check his record! Well theres some good news! Now I knew why I didn't hear anything from him for long periods of time! He even had an escape from Angola State Prison on his record. Mom said she thinks he came to see me while he was out LOL.

Then a few more years go by, by now I am about 38ish and my phone rings, its him. He had hit a deer with his mortocycle, and didn't remember ever talking to me again, until something jogged his memory!

Then one day I came home from being out and about, and I see a name on my caller ID, and thought ... oh dad called, I'll call him back in a few. then I realized the last name was the same, but the first name was not my dads name. It was my brother!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had a brother. Now I always knew he existed, but never knew how much he knew about me. I had seen him once when I was about 12 and he was 2.

Well the three of us formed a kind of warped little family! Put together kind of late in life, but thats ok. It worked for us. Me and James' dad dies on 1-2-2007. Complications from liver surgury. Talk about your interesting funeral / wake! My daughter had to ask me why everyone was smoking weed and putting the roaches on the pictures of grandpa. LOL! A guy named Hats broke his leg after being passed out in the yard, and they fixed it with a broken pool stick and a torn shirt. This is one side of my family! Odd maybe to some ...... but it does work for us. I love my family, and am thankful for the time I did get to have with my dad. And extremely thankful for having my brother, and his wife Dawn, and thier fabulous kids Lilli and Cadas in my life! As well as all of my uncles (dad had 6 brothers), aunts and cousins!

All for now! Stay tuned!