life
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For a long time, motherhood didn’t look the way I expected it to. When I was raising my oldest, I was still living under my parents’ roof. When she was 2 I left to pursue my bachelors degree. They supported me while I went off to college, stepping in so my daughter had stability while Read more
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No seriously. When I was younger, 40 felt far far away. Older. Settled. Certain. Now that I’m here, it feels idk, grounded. Turning 40 as a mother doesn’t feel like an ending at all! It feels like an arrival. Not because everything is figured out,(because it definitely is not) but because I finally trust myself Read more
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I didn’t plan to become a mother so young. I was still a teenager when Ava entered my life. Tiny, dependent, and completely unaware that I was still growing up myself. There was no roadmap, no timeline, no version of motherhood that looked like the one I was living. I was learning who I was Read more
