Half Of My Life

Posted by: Jens2Cents on: 09/15/2014

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My Cupcake

Fifteen years ago, I woke up unaware of how life altering that day would become. Exactly three weeks prior, I had turned fifteen. Yep, I was a teen mom. For half of my life, I’ve been fortunate enough to call the beauty in the above picture my daughter.

I think I’ve been holding my breath all these years, just waiting for this birthday. Would she be like me? Watching her grow & blossom over the years has been amazing & frightening. Yes, she is a lot like me, but she is her own person & has made very different choices. I’ve always been pretty open with my kids about what I’ve done in the past & how I might have done things differently or why I think making certain choices was necessary in order for me to learn things about myself. (You can’t really lie about having sex as a teenager when you were a teen mom!) I think this honesty has really helped guide Cupcake in making different decisions despite us being so similar in many ways.

I know I can relax now, but I probably won’t. Not because I don’t trust her, but because I’ve been uber protective of her from the get go and half your life is a long time to love someone. I can’t wait to see what the next fifteen years bring her.

She made red velvet cupcakes to celebrate

Happy birthday Cupcake. I love you ❤

Tags: Birthday, teen mom, teenager