What I’m grateful for this year…
i’ve had a very rough 2024, but i wanted to take a moment to look at the positives and all the good things that came out of this year
1) my daughter’s first birthday! and just watching her grow up this year. she started this year being a little cute blob that slept all the time to now being an energetic and sweet little girl who loves to run around and play outside🥹
2) my fiancé and i have grown so much closer. we got engaged about 2 years ago, but we only got engaged after 2 weeks of dating🫣 this past year we’ve grown even closer together as partners and grown in general as parents🫶🏼
3) we’re finally in a stable environment. i spent half of my pregnancy homeless and thought i was gonna have to put my daughter up for adoption. we had family in a different state offer to help us out tho and we lived with them until about halfway through this year. we weren’t expected to pay rent, but now we’ve been able to move out and start living as adults again❤️
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