Kristine MacBride:
CLASS OF 1988
Beaumont High SchoolClass of 1988
Beaumont, CA
Kristine's Story
Ok here is my story. Soon after high school I got into one bad marriage and then another. I am, by nature, a quiet person. I keep picking "bad boys" because I wanted to make my life more interesting. And if you call living with a violent drunken child interesting well, I guess it was. But by the time I hit 30 I realized I no longer wanted an "interesting life". And when my ex tried tried to choak me to death in one of his typical drunken rages that finalize it, I was done.
So I divorced my secound husband and took my kids and began life again. Just in time it seems because shortly after my ex nearly killed his girlfriend at the time and was sentenced too 5 years in prison. This is why you will not see a lot of personal information like my current last name or where I live. I have restraining orders, but we all know those are not worth the paper they are written on. So I have to be careful about the where abouts of the kids, just to be safe.
About 2 years later I found my faith and then I found my now husband. For the first time in my life I embraced my boring goody two shoes ways and choose a husband who was as goody two shoes as me. No drinking,no smoking, no partying, nothing just the quite life . My friends scoffed at the marriage and to this day, many are still insisting it will not last. They stay we are just too different, But we have been Marred 6 years and we still love each other like newly weds. My husband currently works for a major university and we own a very comfortable home and have a close family life.
The funny thing is when I finally embraced that I was boring and liked my life simple, that is when life got really interesting. I have been places and seen things you could not imagine. I have seen the world and been places people dream of going. Suddenly I had real friends, friends that would actually be there for me when I needed them. I could go to a dinner party with these friends and not have to worry about someone getting drunk and breaking a beer bottle over someones head or stabbing their wife with a screw driver(yes, I have seen it all). I had a husband who believed in God and that the kids were a bless...Expand for more
ing and embraced his role as a father. He put family first and and encouraged me to homeschool the kids so they would grow up to be extrodinary and with values, not ordinary.
As for my kids they are great, and I only have God to thank for that. Andy is 14 and boy is getting so tall. He is amazing. He is a bit of a computer junky, made his own web site at 8, By 10 he was able to format a computer and find and install all the drivers and untility programs. He would spend time working at his uncles computer computer store. And soon after that he began working on hardware repairs. By 12 he had established his own server and was hosting web games. And this year he is writing his own computer games. He excells at math, and science and foreign language. He is still a little shy, but once he gets to know people he becomes the "class clown".
Brianna is 12 and she is just an angel. She is very serious about her studies. She really impressed me a week ago when one of her friends started talking about boys, she told he "my studies are more important than boys" She is a great kid. She also excells in every subject of study, especially religious studies. She can make friends with anyone, and has a natural charisma that just puts people at ease.
I was teaching at a private religous co-op homesschool up until a couple months ago. But I left to open my own business. Pray for me in this economy it will not be easy to keep a new store open. But I was given an opportunity I could not pass up to be my own boss. The best thing is the kids can learn under business enterprise homeschool model. They are really enjoying. They are both setting up their own mini stores within ours and will be working on making their own business management program.
We are happy, do not expect to see us back in California soon. My parents moved from Beaumont soon after I moved. I really do not have a reason to come back. I often think of those of you in Beaumont and miss my friends there. I wish you all the best, but sadly too many bad memories overshadow the many many good ones. And happiness is a choice. And I choose to leave the bad behind and love my life NOW!
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