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Trucker Wife: Hey! It’s Been 4 Years Where Have You Been Woman?

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Several people have written to ask where have I been? How I am managing my current workflow? Most of those writing are my fellow “Trucker Wives” inspired by my private practice Spiced Life Conversation a professional organizing and lifestyle management consultant company.  Here is where I help women get unstuck, get out of their funk, get organized and bring order to their lives. In addition I help newlywed trucker wives and homemakers adjust and cope to their new lifestyle as well as perform premarital counseling and wedding ceremonies.  These women are specifically interested in how I balance it all and manage a long distance married lifestyle. Therefore, I thought I would begin this year with a post to provide a statement of my absence and a overview of my current lifestyle and practice.  This year I plan to share my experience and all the things I’ve done since my break in 2011 from this blog. So, please bookmark this site and stay tune for an interesti...

The Lonely Life Of a Trucker's Wife

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People don’t have a clue about being a wife of a trucker. They look at you like you got it made. “As if!” Being a trucker’s wife is a hard job.  Being a trucker’s wife and a mother on top of that is even harder. Not only do the wife have to muli-task, housework, laundry, run errands, pay the bills, when and if she receives a check from her husband. But, she also has the task of caring for the needs of their children school work, cooking, after school activities. In if she has an outside job Lord help her. A trucker wife has to manage and balance the income while her husband is away. She has to do the oil changes on the cars, any repairs that need to be meet, and let’s not forget about that forest that grows in the front yard yes, “mow the lawn.” She has to be a mom and dad to the children, along with running her husband errands. A trucker wife has to make sure things run as smooth as possible while her better half is on the road. A trucker’s wife dream of a fairy tale m...