My Birthday Moment

The nurse cut my umbilical cord, and I was placed on my mother’s chest. I was weighed at 7 pounds 3oz and 18 inches. With tears in her eyes, my mother met the new love of her live. Me! She thanked God for blessing her with a healthy baby girl. I was surround with love from family member at visited. My mother stated, “ I wouldn’t change a thing, giving birth was the best experience of my

It all started on boot day of spirit week in sixth grade. I was about eleven or twelve and I owned maybe two pairs of shoes that I actually liked and wore all the time. I was crazy about spirit week and would go all out, I still am that way now. The night before, I was rummaging through my closet and couldn’t find a pair of boots anywhere. I ran upstairs and asked my mom if she had any boots because we are close to the same size, but she didn’t have any and that broke my little sixth grade heart. The next day, feeling defeated, I walked to the bus stop and saw my friend Lauren. I told her about my failed attempt to find a pair of boots, and a second later she just took off running into her house across the street. She came out of the house

It was November 20, 2016 the day that I had left for Cancun Mexico. Me, my brother, my mom, and my Grandma and Grandpa all 5 of us in my Yukon Denali on our way the the Hilton Double Tree. It took about an hour and half to get to Chicago Illinois, but on the way there we had to make a few pit stops in Valpo to get my brother some flip-flops that we ended up losing in Mexico. On our way there we had kept in contact with the other 9 people we were going with, My cousin Sean had checked in on us a few times, and asked us how far we were from the place we were heading which was called Portillo's. It's a restaurant that is amazing all of us were going to meet there for dinner before we would all head to the hotel. When we had gotten there my 3

At the age of ten my aunt had twins a boy and a girl and I had to learn what it meant to be a mother. I would wake up at 4oclock in the morning to change diapers and make bottles for my aunt

One day, after school on May 31st, my mom and dad sat my sister and I down in the living room. At first I thought “ what's going on, who passed away, did something bad happened, what'd I do wrong” not until my Mom finally said, “Girls, we’re taking a trip to West Palm Beach Florida this week.”

It is summer and of course that means its concert season. Every girl wants to get dressed up in her cowboy boots and jean shorts, sit back with friends and listen to some great music. It was the middle of August and I had not been to a concert yet this summer. I was getting so upset, I needed a memory in my back pocket for this summer. I go online and search for fun things to do, I noticed that The Zac Brown band was coming to the Mid Credit Amphitheater in September. I got so happy I decided to text my best friend Krissy in all caps, saying “GIRL ZAC BROWN IS COMING TO FLORIDA AND WE ARE GOING!” After .2 seconds later,

My mother never told me the complications of becoming a woman in this world. Maybe she thought I was strong enough to figure them out on my own. Or quite possibly, she couldn't tell me, because she never really knew how to face the complications herself.

I could not help but think that I may forget and leave her in the car, or rush out the house and leave her home alone. I know that may sound crazy, but I always doing things that. I remember my mom telling me everyday that if my head was not already attached to my body, I would lose it. It's crazy because in health class we did the whole egg baby project, and needless to say I left my poor little defenseless baby egg on the school. Since that day, everyone would always tell me that a baby would not be for me. But regardless of how I felt, this baby was coming into this world whether I wanted it too or not. I have no choice but to grow up, accept responsibility and get prepared. So instead of relaxing and hanging out friends, I went to college and work and saved the money to prepare for the few months that I could not work.

Father: There were some tough moments during the pregnancy. Most parents worry themselves crazy or sick during pregnancy and we were no different. We were both on the older side to be first time natural parents, so that was a concern.

It all started towards the end of my Junior year in highschool. I was sixteen at the time living your average teenage girl life, then BOOM!!! I was sixteen and pregnant. I was terrified to tell my mom because I knew it would disappoint her and she would be very upset with me. I knew I would eventually have to tell her. I told her I was having

At first, finding out I was pregnant was a devastating shock to not only myself but everyone around me. I was only eighteen and was a senior in high school. I had such high expectations for myself.

I chose to interview my mother for this project for several reasons. She became a first time mother at the age of fifteen with me. As a teenager, she had to make the life-changing decision of keeping the baby and finish high school at the same time. However, as it one baby wasn’t enough, she face the surprise of getting pregnant again three months after giving birth to her first child. Since her second child was a premature baby, she became a mother twice the same year. This meant that not only she had to deal with two newborn babies at once, but she also had to deal with the complications and concerns of a premature baby. My mother’s story is truly inspirational as she was able to finish high school, get a bachelor degree, work a full-time

My big sister moved away when I was 6. So for most of my life, I was an only child. Everything was mine, and my parents were very involved in my life. Then, there I was, 10 years old, and my parents handed me a note that read of my mother being pregnant, I had thought about this. Eventually, I actually got excited. It was lots of fun throughout the journey, but a month before my brother was supposed to be born, my mom went into labor.

It was late on an unusually warm Saturday night when I had to go back to my little side job and help a lady take down decorations from a wedding reception that was being held at St. Anne’s Catholic church in town. It was around 11:30pm and I was dead beat tired and did not want to leave the comfiness of my warm bed and the familiarity of my room. My best friend Gabby was also staying the night at my house that night and she had decided to come with me to help the lady I was working for. So, we bagged up all the junk food we had bought earlier that day and put the liter of pop in the fridge and made our way out to my car.

Telling my family about the pregnancy was going to be one of the most petrifying things I’d ever had to do. I honestly know how to know to tell them or who I was going to tell first, I was nervous about what the outcome would be. Telling my child’s father was first though. Moreover, me and my family finding out the news, he had been in a juvenile detention center. When we would be on the phone I would