My story...

Let me first start off by telling you all a little more about myself...

Like I said, my name is Adam Jackson and I'm 19 years old. I'm not your typical 19 year old college freshman though. My life is a little more than someone who's waking up on Saturday or Sunday morning wondering, "what exactly happened last night at that party?". I currently go to school at Purdue University as a first year engineer. However, I'm transferring to IUPUI next year to most likely study business. So some of you may know about my so called "situation", but for those of you who don't, here it is. I'm 19 years old, married, and have a 6 month old son. Just from that statement right there, I'm sure most of you can tell why I'm not living the typical life of a college student.

College has been hard on me so far, for the main reason of being away from my family. In the fall, my girlfriend (at the time), was pregnant and was due to have our baby in September. This made the first month or so of school pretty crazy for me. While I was away each week, I not only had to worry about each one of my classes, but I had to worry about that one phone call that could change my life. That phone call saying, "I'm going into labor.. get you ass here now!" Fortunately that didn't happen because the doctor and Courtney (my girlfriend) decided to have induce labor on Monday, September 8, 2008. I'll go more into detail about that day in a future blog entry. My son was born on September 8, 2009 and we named him Christopher Zachary Jackson. He was a perfectly healthy little boy and Courtney and I are so blessed to have him. But now that my son was born, it was so hard for me to leave and go back to school, but I did what I had to do. I would leave at the beginning of each week to go back to school, away from the two people I cared about most and had to deal with being away with them as well as a pretty brutal schedule of classes. Every Friday after my last class, I would drive home in my brother's car or my dad would come pick me up so I could come home and spend every weekend with my son and Courtney. And after each weekend was over, it was harder and harder for me to leave to go back to school. I just wanted to be there with them. I knew it was unfair for Courtney to be raising our child by herself all week long and that killed me that she had to do that. I was also so afraid that my own son wouldn't even realize that I'm his father considering that I was only there for about 2 and half days out of the week. It was so hard on me. The only reason I was doing it was because I knew with the right education that I could eventually give my family everything that they deserve.

As the fall semester came to a close it was getting close to Christmas Break where I'd get to be home for nearly a month. I was so excited. Plus, Courtney and I had planned to get married on December 13, 2008. And that we did. We got married at my church in Brownsburg (Calvary United Methodist Church). Only our close families were there such as our parents and siblings. It was a short and sweet wedding but definitely unforgettable. Afterwards, we had a wedding reception at Brownsburg Rec Center with all of our friends and the rest of our families there and it was a blast! By the end of Christmas Break, it so even harder for me to say goodbye and go back to school again, especially after not doing so well in a few of my classes. I have continued to come home every weekend and will for the rest of the school year. Spring Break is next week and we are excited again to spend a whole week together. After that school will almost be over and then Courtney and Christopher will move in with me and my parent's house for the summer and at least the fall semester until we can get a place of our own.

My life has definitely changed but it was definitely for the better. I'm so blessed to have such a beautiful son and such an amazing wife. Yeah, so what if I'm not going out and partying every weekend like any other college kid, I'm raising my family!

So there you have it. That's the story of my life right now. Of course it's not everything but I hope I caught you up on some missing information that you may not have known.

Future blogs to come... "What the hell am I going to do?", "The birth of my son.", and "My bachelor party."