Alyssa in Wonderland

My therapist was right. The anxiety of constantly preparing for the wildest unknown—the most earth shattering, life altering scenario that I can conjure up and mentally prepare myself for is really nothing when this event happens in real life. I had my firstborn at the start of the pandemic. I was never leaving my house to begin with, especially now. Slowly I started seeing my immediate family.…

Just because you did not come from me, does not mean I do not love you. God gifted you to me, and that itself is more than enough reason to love you as my own.

I like to tell people that I have a daughter. I don’t call her my step child because her father and I aren’t married yet. Even when we do get married, she will still be my daughter. I love her. I care for her. I help her learn and grow. I…