katherine (tough gal)

by katherine
(caldwell idaho)

Hi,well where to start I am a truckers wife,also a truckers daughter ,niece and so on. kinda runs the family. My father was a trucker for many years , my real grandfather hauled cattle also drove for a trucking company.so trucking has been in my family forever.

I always told myself i would not marry someone who would be gone all the time. Well what did i do that's right we have our own truck ,and i really hate it anymore. we have four children,ages-21,19,18 years old then our littlest surprise she is almost a year old will be here shortly.

we show cattle,rodeo and show rabbits also,we are a family that is real active but it is real hard when he is gone and misses everything.the hardest part for me is the sleeping alone and the worries. he has been over the road it seems forever,we have been married for 22 years,he has been in the military and driving truck one type or another for 22years.including tanks in the military. so i definitely married someone that was gone a lot.

I have asked my husband to get out of trucking,its to the point the expenses override what he makes, its just not worth it anymore. we argue this all the time because of there not being a lot of jobs out there and everyone wants truck drivers.

i feel more like I'm a single parent than anything. my day begins real early getting one kid off to school, feeding horses and cattle getting breakfast for the littlest one then house work,and if its a weekend off to a rodeo-my son bullrides and i use to barrel race.

Then in the summer and fall its off to cattle shows and rabbit shows also. those run from three days to two weeks long. so we stay overly busy,which helps some with the staying busy is much better than just sitting .well that is it for now
katherine (tough gal)