My Journey To Happiness

Once my son was born I only had to spend about 2 more weeks in Germany, and let me tell you I was excited to get to my new home and back to my pets. Getting here honestly was almost an issue, at first they weren't going to let my son fly back to the states with us because he wasn't put on his dads orders; so we had to pay out of pocket ($1,000) for him to fly with us on the military rotater flight. We got to Holloman AFB in New Mexico on 4 September and I was surprised at how flat and desert the place was. Also I came to realize how in the middle of no where this base was - literally the closest town was 20 minutes away and the next closest after that is 45 minutes away (Las Cruces).  From there my marriage started to fall apart slowly, my sons dad started drinking more and not really helping with our son at all. I was exhausted. There was literally a point in the first couple of months in my sons life where I didn't shower for at least 7 days. I just didn't have the ...

So before I dive into what I'm doing to make myself happy I'm going to give a little bit of background info. I've had a semi-difficult past and I've had a lot of life experiences which I'm grateful for every single one because without them I wouldn't be the person I am today. My name is Dekota and I am 30 years old. I'm from a small coastal town in south east Georgia and I went to high school in south east Texas. I have a two year old son from my previous marriage, which I was married to his father for 6 and a half years. That was quite an adventure on it's own - we met in Georgia in 2010 while he was stationed at Moody AFB and were married that August. Shortly after we were married we got notification that he had orders to move to Incirlik AB, Turkey and I was going with him the following April.  Through our marriage I got pregnant several times and also experienced several losses. Shortly before I turned 27, 4 years into our marriage) I had given u...