Part 4: The Journey of Adulthood
So enough about my childhood and personal opinions and onto my adulthood. My next journey, I fell in love and was married by the age of twenty-one. I made it just in the nick of time before I became too old for marriage. I had the mindset back then that getting married past the age of twenty-one, was waiting too long to do so, now looking back I really was still a baby. Oh to be twenty one again. haha!!
So marriage happened and then three years later without wanting to rush into Parenthood and wanting to have just the two of us for awhile, we welcomed our daughter into the world. She was born in November around her due date weighing in at 9lbs and 1 oz. by c-section.
I would like to think that she came along around the time that I myself was due to be born. Which remember I came in September instead. Which works out since I do favor the month of September more plus the color blue which is also September's color of stone of sapphire. And I was born right before Summer ended which happens to be my favorite month.
I would like to add that she is a rainbow baby. She and her brother have a sibling in Heaven. I suffered a ectopic pregnancy four months before her conception and was a couple of months along when it was discovered at my first Dr visit. It was the day before my husband's birthday when it was discovered and I had to end up having a procedure and an overnight stay in the hospital. I was scared to death and having to stay over in the hospital did not make matters any better but we got through it.
Life was going pretty good. I had been working a full time job for almost five years before I gave that job up. When I had my daughter I almost didn't want to go back to work from maternity leave but decided that I needed to if I wanted a roof over our heads and food on the table. I had entertained the idea of not going back to work and perhaps babysitting but that was a brief thought because I didn't want to babysit other kids and not give my newborn the attention that I felt she deserved. So back to work I went. Until, one day when my almost two year old started being more needy and clingy around that time or maybe it was God's way of guiding me to my next journey in life. Which was the journey of babysitting full time.
I had babysat before full time before marriage and also as a teen and enjoyed doing so but it took a lot of soul searching and convincing myself to do it again, this time with a toddler of my own. I'll admit even though I felt that this was what God wanted me to do and had given me the desire to do so, I was still afraid of quitting my full time job that included benefits, insurance and retirement.
Making any changes in life can be scary especially when it includes your financial needs. But, my newest journey began and I was getting the business of children to babysit that I needed. I was also having a stronger desire to find out who my biological family was and perhaps meeting them one day. I was even having dreams that they found me. What I didn't realize at that time was the reality of actually meeting them so soon. In my mind it would take years to find them. Read on to learn more about how I found my bio family.
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So marriage happened and then three years later without wanting to rush into Parenthood and wanting to have just the two of us for awhile, we welcomed our daughter into the world. She was born in November around her due date weighing in at 9lbs and 1 oz. by c-section.
I would like to think that she came along around the time that I myself was due to be born. Which remember I came in September instead. Which works out since I do favor the month of September more plus the color blue which is also September's color of stone of sapphire. And I was born right before Summer ended which happens to be my favorite month.
I would like to add that she is a rainbow baby. She and her brother have a sibling in Heaven. I suffered a ectopic pregnancy four months before her conception and was a couple of months along when it was discovered at my first Dr visit. It was the day before my husband's birthday when it was discovered and I had to end up having a procedure and an overnight stay in the hospital. I was scared to death and having to stay over in the hospital did not make matters any better but we got through it.
Life was going pretty good. I had been working a full time job for almost five years before I gave that job up. When I had my daughter I almost didn't want to go back to work from maternity leave but decided that I needed to if I wanted a roof over our heads and food on the table. I had entertained the idea of not going back to work and perhaps babysitting but that was a brief thought because I didn't want to babysit other kids and not give my newborn the attention that I felt she deserved. So back to work I went. Until, one day when my almost two year old started being more needy and clingy around that time or maybe it was God's way of guiding me to my next journey in life. Which was the journey of babysitting full time.
I had babysat before full time before marriage and also as a teen and enjoyed doing so but it took a lot of soul searching and convincing myself to do it again, this time with a toddler of my own. I'll admit even though I felt that this was what God wanted me to do and had given me the desire to do so, I was still afraid of quitting my full time job that included benefits, insurance and retirement.
Making any changes in life can be scary especially when it includes your financial needs. But, my newest journey began and I was getting the business of children to babysit that I needed. I was also having a stronger desire to find out who my biological family was and perhaps meeting them one day. I was even having dreams that they found me. What I didn't realize at that time was the reality of actually meeting them so soon. In my mind it would take years to find them. Read on to learn more about how I found my bio family.
This is part four of many parts
Stay Tuned for more parts....
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