I'm a 22 years old with an amazing 2 year old son and husband. The day I turned 20, the day Noah was born... my whole life changed within a matter of hours. I've spent most of my life trying in every way to be perfect and please everyone around me. But throughout the past few years, I have finally grown into my own woman. I have learned that pleasing everyone else is a waste of time and nothing in life really matters until you can please yourself. But part of me as yet again changed in the past two years, because now I have learned nothing in life matters except my son and family. I have a close circle of friends who mean more to me than they probably will ever know and I am so thankful to have them in my life. It took me years to realize not to trust everyone but to barely trust anyone; yet I know, I can trust any of my friends or family with my life. I've had a pretty tough child hood in some ways. But nothing I will ever take back or change because it all brought me to where I am today. I was born with a mother and father (of course, as every child) but then around the age of 5; that guy I had grown to know as 'daddy' walked right out of my life and I was adopted by another man I thought I would forever be able to depend on. And yet again, as a growing young woman had my heart broken by another man who walked right out of my life and have yet to see him to this day since I was 8, maybe 9. But then by the grace of God, MY DADDY (not biologically, but forever will be in my heart)came to me and John (my only biological sibling) and asked to marry our mother. I was the happiest little girl in the whole world. And til this day I am proud to call him daddy and more thankful for him than I am anything in my life. Yes, I am thankful for my mom and her fantastic job raising me and my brother as a single teenage mother for most of our childhood but if she hadn't met him at the Police D.A.R.E school one holiday season, I don't think I would have became the woman I am today. It was them who raised me, supported me (even when they didn't agree, sometimes) and pushed to my limits to make sure I would succeed in life. I'm sure my mama would have raised me to be the woman I am, even without him but he changed our lives forever when he decided to take on the job as 'dad' to 2 children, he knew he didn't have to. I will forever appreciate each and everything my parents have done for me; knowing there will never be enough to thank them! But now, because of them and my life experiences, 22 years later, here I am. After graduating in the top 10% of my high school class with honors in 2004, spent a year at UNC-Charlotte living on my own with an amazing roommate and best friend, a professional graduate from Penn Foster Career School for Pharmacy Technician; graduating with a B+ average and a Nationally and State Certified Pharmacy Technician. I am now a strong, independent, successful and most importantly an amazing mother.
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