The Many Sides of Me

Just in case you didn’t get the memo: I PUBLISHED MY FIRST BOOK LAST MONTH! You can get it on Amazon! The link is in my bio/comment section go ahead and snag a copy, if it’s not your story, donate it to your local NICU or house of worship as a resource for families. #nicunowwhat #nicuparents #nicunurses #nicu #resources #selfpublished https://www.instagram.com/p/CBmH7jyp7AX/?igshid=to9fh0q30f7b

Good morning everyone! If you are local to Miami I have a few books that just came in for sale if you want to purchase them, let me know, and we can figure it out! #nicunowwhat #nicuparents #nicu #resources #nicunurses https://www.instagram.com/p/CBLWDPMpn_2/?igshid=1bf3w634a8d0z

I know there are a lot of people who have read my book or plan on reading my book, it would help me out a lot if you would go and review it on Amazon once you’ve read it! Thanks so much for your continued support! #nicunowwhat #nicuparents #nicunurses #nicu #resources https://www.instagram.com/p/CA-r9oOpVzT/?igshid=pqsa5v8bnhxz

IT’S HERE!! My very own hard copy of my very first published book! You can buy it now from Amazon! 🌻 It’s designed to be a practical guide for parents who find themselves in the NICU! If that’s you, this book is for you, and if it’s not you, this book is for you to give away! Consider buying a couple and donating them to a hospital, birth workers, or nonprofits who help in the NICU, or you can just buy one for your shelf to support me! 🌻 Seeing it in real life, touching the cover, seeing the names of those that helped me in print, overwhelms me all over again! 🌻 I use to write poetry growing up and into my years in the Army, and then I had a blog; several iterations of blogs actually, but I’ve stayed consistent for almost ten years with one, yet I never considered myself a writer or an author. 🌻 But God says something completely different about me, and it is time for me to walk in the identity of who He says I am: A WRITER AND AN AUTHOR, and this is just the beginning! #nicunowwhat #infullbloom #firstofmany #published #ididit #2020goalaccomplished #nicu #resources #nicuparents #nicunurses https://www.instagram.com/p/CAibn0CphUd/?igshid=8jso5mf5tt90

Big Sister Day was a huge success this year!! Very little tears, lots of joy and gratitude, tons of laughter and sweat, too many sweets, lots of naps and hugs, and a lot of little hellos throughout the day from our sweet precious Kiwi!! . . . . Happy 3rd Birthday Kiwi Hannah!! Mommy Daddy and Sissy love you so much and will try to live our best lives until we can see you in Heaven!! . . . . #babyKiwi #familytradition #mifamilia #makingmemories #beautyforashes #bigsisterday

18 Months Old Today! Kobi, our dear Katherine Obadiah is 1.5 years old already! I'm so grateful, thankful and blessed even on the bad days, because she is an answered prayer! She is fiercely independent, smart, kind, generous, beautiful, important but most of all she is loved, loved, loved! #mifamilia #kobi #makingmemories #answeredprayers

The day I've been waiting for has finally come. The last class of my graduate degree is done! I just had to celebrate a little with the best friend and hubs! I'm so excited I gave God praises, in claps, shouts, and dancing, and then I cried and said thanks!! Y'all I'm tired but it is finished! #graduationhereicome #gradschoolcomplete #freedomishere #letsgopeay #praisebreak

I've been noticing that Kobi's hair has gotten longer and just recently as in earlier this week, I realized that I could finally attempt to style her hair (thanks Crystal 😉) so while she ate a snack and played with her favorite toy I attempted to do Kobi's hair for the first time ever!! It's not perfect but it's a start and I'm excited to continue to learn how to do her hair as she continues to grow! I told her as I was doing it, that although I don't know what I'm doing I promise to learn! And yes I took pictures cause it might not make it through the night and I needed proof! . . . #firsttimemom #doinghairaintmystrength #learningwhileshegrows #itsalreadymessedup #didntevenpostityet #kobi #makingmemories #mifamilia

It's always awkward to go into a local establishment and see your ex best friend... you heart drops into your stomach and you may want to puke. What makes it worse is the fact that you were with your family to include the child, said ex best friend prayed for and has yet to see in real life!

Sometimes going back to the basics is all you need!

These two people are my biggest cheerleaders and the support they've shown me this semester has been life changing! Thank you my loves for helping me be great!! We're almost done, only one paper to go until we're free!!! Love y'all!

So now this is a rant because I just spent the last 30 minutes writing my feelings out only for them not to have been posted!! Long story short, I hate when friendships change, and I can see it happening but no one else sees it or acknowledges it. At this moment I feel replaced and cast aside because we chose to start a family by our friends that have no desire for children and loved our new puppy more than they loved our daughter! They have new DINK (Dual Income No Kids) friends that they met on a trip to Israel who have conveniently moved to Nashville. I'm team NO NEW FRIENDS, they seemed cool, but they are pretty much replacing our friend's reasons to come to TN! They don't need us anymore to come here, and they will probably be much happier to come and visit TN and be able to do things without a kid tagging along!! So I'm all in my feelings but it's because there was a shift that happened yesterday that no one noticed but me, and it's hard to accurately communicate something that only I see without sounding jealous or immature and seeing as our friends don't live close, it trying to be conveyed via a text is just messy. I totally get it, they don't want kids and we did, and do. They are free to travel whenever, and we'll have to plan things out taking into consideration the needs of our daughter... it's inconvenient, and maybe they can only be inconvenienced for so long before they are done... I know we'll still be friends but it won't be the same.

What a difference a year makes!! Happy "Welcome Home" Day Kobi!! I'm glad your NICU stay ended when it did!!

I am sooooo excited to be able to start this book during my last "Spring Break" as a college student!! Here's to more reading for fun in my future! #imjudgingyou #springbreakreading #toohyped #excited

I HATE SLOW DRIVERS... I'm not talking about people who do the posted speed limit, no I'm talking about those people who do ten under for no reason!!! Like why are you cruising around on a Monday!! Get out of my waaaaaaay!! I got stuck behind what I could only hope to be a student driver in a Buick coming back from lunch but I'm pretty sure it was just some dude who was lost... okay fine, I get it, you're lost! You can still do the speed limit to turn around at the next available spot!! Sheesh! Now I'm late clocking in which means points on my record!! Not cool man, not cool!

Then & Now... when we became official and us celebrating at a marriage conference this past weekend! We started out younger with lives well lived before each other, which is weird because my life didn't start to truly have meaning until we were married. That's when I learned how selfish I was and still am, what it means to die to self and do things I don't like for the benefit of someone else, that's also when I learned how to love and let down my walls long enough to let love penetrate my hard heart! Being married hasn't always been easy but it's definitely been worth it! When all is said and done I want our marriage to be one of our greatest legacies besides our family and how we loved Jesus! Thanks for a wonderful 8 years my love! Happy Anniversary!! #itsouranniversary #eightyears #ilovethisman #happyvalentinesday