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The Things You Do For Those You Love

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Quote: Do small things with great love  ~Unknown

Let me first start by saying Congratulations to the Carolina Panthers for an awesome season!! Now that Super Bowl is over and all the talk about Cam Newton and Beyonce’ almost falling is starting to quiet down let’s move on to my truckers wife life as it pertains to Super Bowl.   For the most part, people will do anything, within reason, for the person(s) they love and my trucker is no exception.  So while everyone was happily attending Super Bowl parties and cheering on the Panthers from in front of the TV screen, my trucker was busy working and delivering all of those products that were sold out due to so many Super Bowl parties!  When he had a chance to stop, while his truck was being unloaded, he gave me a FaceTime call.  Now me, being the super cheesy wife that I am, was excited, as usual, to be able to see his face, however, this call went a little different than I expected.  I answered his FaceTme call with an excited “Hey Babe”!  His response was “ok I need you to turn that camera around facing the TV and point it towards the game”! This was my face
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As my mind said “really dude!!”  But despite what I was thinking, I found a way to prop up the iPad so he could watch the game!  I said all of that to say this:  in any relationship, whether it’s your husband, boyfriend, best friend, mom, aunt, or cousin, it’s the little things that define how you really feel about someone.  The care that you take with the small things has a very good indication of your heart and how you really feel.  Do small things with great love so when it’s time for the big things, it will all be natural.  Until next time, thanks for visiting!!



A Star Is Born

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Feelings change, memories don’t  ~Joel  Alexander

The Christmas and New Year holidays are a special time for many families and while I am so late on this post, I thought it was very important to share with you the star that was born on our Christmas Day.  As usual The Means’ house is a busy place and Christmas week was no exception but what emerged on December 25, 2015 was unknown and definitely never imagined.  This post is probably going to be one of the shortest ever that you will read as the video needs no introduction or description. I encourage you to watch the video in its entirety, it’s a short 1 minute 22 second clip with sound, but I promise you won’t regret it!  From our house to yours, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Married Single Mommy

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Quote: I Didn’t Get Married to be a Single Parent   ~Delise Denham
‘This single parent thing is for the birds…been there, done that….didn’t know I was going to be doing THIS again’….YES, all of these thoughts have crossed my mind several times over the last eight months since Trucker Means has been on the road.  Having three kids, although two of them were on their way out the door, the idea of having to “do it alone” made my stomach hurt.  But needless to say, I pulled it together, put my big girl panties on and put in the work.  That leads me to my next adventure….Picture this, three kids, who I refer to as “my cuties pies and my sweet thing”:  two are 18, a boy and a girl, and the youngest is 2, a bouncy busy boy,…(and yea I said 2, don’t judge me and if one more person ask me ‘what was I thinking, I’m going to lose it’!!), on a road trip without Daddy. I know you’re thinking, well two of them are grown….You are so wrong!! When I say these kids work my nerves! So I head out with the two brothers in tow to pick up their sister from her army base.  First of all, it took us four and a half hours for a trip that was ‘supposed to be’ three and half. The boys fussed all the way there as usual, about the normal things: who was going to eat the most candy, whose mommy I was, and who was going to have to take a nap; the little one seems to think he is the father in this family composition. The GPS is actually giving us the right directions directly to her duty station while the workers on the base made us check in to give the wrong directions and all the while the little monster in the back is giving his own directions on where to go because he is ready to see his sister…or maybe he has to pee but either way….

Several things happened on this trip that made me pray in silence:

·         I drove for 2.5 hours on a back road with two lanes doing 45 mph.

·         I purchased gas for $1.69

·         My oldest son, did a pretend seize and capture when we pulled up to the gate to get his sister.  It sounded real in his mind and out loud, but no real action was actually taken…

·         My daughter sang her rendition of Reunited by Peaches and Herb after fleeing the army base.

·         My youngest, the little monster, did an excitement dance for his sister, giving a show to the entire front line crew at Chic Fil A, earning himself the name Dance Machine.

·         My daughter side stepped in the line at Chic Fil A because she was having flash backs of basic training habits while repeating out loud “I will always keep my heels together”!!

·         My son paid for lunch!!

·         My daughter paid for gas!!

·         My 2 year old told the cashier he was 21 years old.
And even after all of this, the day was not complete without the little monster losing his ears. He said he couldn’t go to sleep without them. I don’t even know what that means for real, but I do know that he found them in about ten minutes, when he was fast asleep and snoring loudly for the remainder of the ride! So while this seemed like a pretty hectic trip….I prayed all the way there and back and several times asked for mercy and forgiveness, but Lord knows I love my life as the trucker’s wife!

HI! My NAME is WHAT, My NAME is WHO?!

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It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to. ~W.C. Fields
So with my trucker, to know him is to love him….or have strong feelings in the opposite direction depending on your encounter! However, even those who initially lean toward the “not so much love” eventually come around to the other side! With a heavy Baltimore drawl and a life’s too easy to rush demeanor, to spend any time with him or around him is a guaranteed good time.  I call him “A Pimp in his own Mind!” while my sister prefers….Well we’re not going to get into that here, just know he goes by a lot of different names!   He can be called Husband, Father and Son to name a few good ones! Just to give you an idea of what my life with my trucker is like, take a look at the trucker names he has given himself over the last 8 months, which he thought was even funnier to text to my sister and I in the middle of the work day!
Big DADDY dip low….80 TONS on Tip Toes….Mr. Pay Me don’t Delay Me….Mr. State to State for that cake..we almost there shawty….Big Baller, Heavy Hauler….Duke of the Downshift….Mr. Steak & Shake from State to State….Mr. Freddy FREEWAY….Mr. Shore to Shore, From hell to Heaven to Baltimore; From Texarkana to Alabama, hauling everything from bananas to pajamas. I am ah Lean Mean Heavy Hauling Machine. I turn hot pockets into ice cold green.  I haul everything from cow ass to afro sheen.
Yes, my dear readers he said afro sheen! The list goes on and on with each mile that he drives but no matter what you call him, please keep him in your prayers over the holiday season, along with the other 3.5 million professional truck drivers out on the road.  Without them, the shelves would not be stocked with the many great gifts that we are out hustling and bustling to purchase during this time or even more importantly, the things that we use in our everyday lives.
So let’s hear it, one pull of the BIG HORN string (HONK! HONK!), one salute to all the big rig driving, heavy hauling truckers around the world!

And the Journey Begins……

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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
~John Pierpont Morgan
 
And just like that is was done! Let me start by introducing myself.  My name is Jeameeka but for personal effects you can call me Jeek. I’m the wife of a newly licensed CDL OTR truck driver and let me just say I can’t seem to get the line “on the road again” out of my mind! Welcome to my blog.  Here you will find posts about my life as a trucker’s wife.  Some will be funny, some will be sweet, some will be recipes to help put you to sleep! My posts will be mostly for entertainment purposes for any age, any lifestyle but it is my hope that other trucker wives will gain useful information that definitely helped me to transition and adjust.  Thanks for visiting and check back often….Enjoy!!