Monday, June 3, 2013

Call Of The Wild


Hello everyone,
  As many of you know Sophia and I are leaving Arizona hopefully sometime this fall, hopefully mid-November. Well as time passes and things seem to be falling into place I start to look into our future and how I want to spend the rest of my life with my beloved. We’ve been talking more and more about living in the natural setting of the back country of Washington and having a nice piece of land to call our own, preferably some form of old farmland or something similar.
  I really miss living in the country and detest living in the concrete jungles of cities. I grew up in Arizona rural small communities and I feel Mother Nature calling me back. A city is now place to raise kids now a days and I want my boys to at least have a little bit of country to come and visit and a place for our future adopted child to grow up in.
 I rather have a peaceful night on a porch (without 100*+ weather) and just enjoying nature than to honking of cars and the noise of people. We both have a strong love for wildlife and wild things and one of my most recent discoveries covers an old family tradition that will bring that wildlife to our future back yard, I’ve been researching natural swimming ponds/pools and I’m just in love with them and what they can do. I also love gardens and fruit trees and the ability to go on long walks with my beloved and not worry about being robbed or bothered and truly enjoy the open spaces.
  I can’t wait to move and start over, it’s time to move on and get a fresh start and truly live my life again as a country girl.
I hope you all can find a life worth living like the one that is finally happening, until next time as I live my life my life into Zoe.

~CHEER~ 

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Picking Up The Pieces


It’s been a while since my last post and I feel it’s time for an update on life. Over the past few months a lot has happened; I quit school, got a job, my court appeal came in and Sophia got a raise. All in all lots of positive things have been happening. I think things are starting to come around and we are finally picking up the pieces of our lives and moving forward.
 First off was when I quit school, it was a hard thing to do but it was necessary. I found out that my credits and my license from this education was not going to transfer to Washington State and that I would have to start over after we moved there. I looked up a few schools where we plan on living and well I found a few that I like and hopefully it won’t take too long after we settle in there for me to go back.
 Well around when I dropped school  I got a great and challenging job just a few months ago and I have to say it’s different than anything I’ve ever done. I work for a place called TCH and they’re a non-profit that run assisted living for the disabled and mentally challenged. I currently work overnights as a care provider in one of their group homes, I help take care of five wonderful women with a range of disabilities and it has been the most remarkable task I’ve ever done and I’ll miss them when we leave.
 So as most know I finally received the judgment from the court of appeals and I received mostly good news.  The order for supervised visits was overturned and my name was cleared of being a threat to my children, but the request for overturning the order for sole custody was denied.  Over all this was what we expected and was a huge win. I now have to go back and get a visitation order and ask to change legal custody to shared. I’m very hopeful at this point and I know things are looking good for me and my boys.
 That leaves me to what our future hold. With Sophia getting a huge raise and her plans to pursue getting her old position back after we move, I would like to say things are really looking good. We plan on getting ourselves together and being out of Arizona by the end of the year and finally starting to settle in and build our lives together. I can see our possible future fall into place now and I can see us having a nice place and raising a family together, I see nothing but good things from now on.
As I live my life, My life into Zoe
Cheers!

Monday, March 25, 2013

The devil’s in the details


So it’s time for an update on what’s going on in my life and to clear the air in what our future plans are. Well in the past few months I found out that my massage education would not transfer to Washington State nor would they accept a license from my school and they are very picky in what out of state education they will accept. So for the time being I’m no longer in school and will be continuing my education in Federal Way after we move to Tacoma. Well the other thing going on is that we need a steady income to be able to move and without the restrictions of school I was able to find a really decent job.

So, some of you may ask what are the details. Well for one my new job is working at a group home for mentally & physically challenged adults, my employers are a NPO called The Center for Habilitation or TCH. I have to say it’s a great job and it’s really a great challenge for me and I never ever thought of working in a group home before this, and I really like it. My job is very rewarding and I get to work with some really great individuals that live in the house I work at, I can’t really talk too much about them because of client confidentiality but I can say that they are uniquely wonderful. I am partially out at work, meaning they know that I’m a lesbian and that I’m in a wonderful relationship. What they don’t know is that I’m transgender and really that’s my personal choice as I enjoys just being one of the girls and finally be the woman that I truly am, I’ve decided that  I don’t need to share this detail with everyone and that it’s need to information and that’s fine and dandy for me.

The next thing that is going on in my life is that my appeals is being worked on through the courts and a judgment is expected within the next few months at the very least and that will get the ball rolling for new negotiations with Chanel for more time with my boys and more legal custodial rights and the end of the unjust judgment that was put against me over a year and a half ago. I really want to start working towards something that’s more permanent, something that would allow me to see my boys during their time off from school and also make sure that my family can see them without issues or manipulation either. I also want to have the ability to see and talk to my boys over the phone or via webcam on a set schedule and upon reasonable request. Just because I’m leaving the state doesn’t mean I’m leaving my boys behind. As a mother I must be there for them in any way I can and leaving them out of my life is not an option.

This brings us to the last part of my update. I know that I’ve talked about moving to Tacoma WA off and on and well since I have a job now we finally have the income to save up for the big move. Honestly we’re shooting for this next fall right after my oldest birthday, but we’ll know more as or funds build up. I’m hoping to be in our new home for the holiday season and I can’t wait to get out of this state and start working on a more permanent career and building a new life with Sophia. This is the goal and I hope for the best that we meet it, but in the end we’ll move when we have the money and that’s the most important part. 

So as I continue to live this wonderful life,
my Life into Zoe.