On having a daughter; It doesn’t matter how much I struggle being a single mom or how I’m still trying to figure out how I’m responsible for two children (when I still think I’m a teenager), Avanna still sees me as a role model. She looks up to me so highly that it makes me want to show up as the best version of myself just for her. Even though she clings to my every word and every action it has taught me patience and grace even. Sometimes I think back on the decisions I made that led me to this point and it makes me sad that the life I thought I’d provide for my children isn’t the life I’m living now. I may complain and lose patience at times, but I always say my kids saved me. I don’t know if I’d be able to wake up each morning workout and strive to be better if not for these two children God has blessed me with. Having a daughter healed a part of my inner child that makes me see her as who I wanted to be which makes me want her to be the best version of herself, which I hope is greater than I am. There was a time I wasn’t even sure I could conceive and now I look at my life and though I would have loved to be a part of a two parent household. I would much rather my children know what it looks like to work hard, and still have fun/ understand the balance that is life. Life can be beautiful and sad at the same time but I wouldn’t change a thing because I know this path is my path, I wouldn’t change a thing. #morningreflections