Milk and Manuscripts

Welcome to my safe space. The place where I can freely write and share my experience on being a first-time mom who's trying to figure it out, while finding time for reading too. I'm taking it day by day and I am inviting you along for the ride. So, if you like adventure, books, and rambling hop in!

Milk and Manuscripts: 

Milk: Do you ever look down at your beautiful baby and think to yourself? How did I get here? I look at my daughter attached to my boob as she peacefully squeezes my fingers and think to myself; this is it. I never thought I'd be a mom this "early" and I use parenthesis because I'm 28 years old. Most people I've known from college are on their second or even third baby and I feel like I just experienced a teenage pregnancy. 

My husband and I became parents this year and though it was not on our bingo cards; it was like the space we needed to hit the jackpot. She is the best blessing and is such an amazing and intelligent baby. I can't believe I used to exist without her in my life. I am very excited to share my story but remember: THIS IS A JUDGEMENT FREE ZONE AND IS MY UNFILTERED STORYTELLING. This is my blog of heart shaped mistakes minus Joe Goldberg looking over my shoulder as I type. 💗

Being a mother is the best job I have ever signed up for and I'll be showing how I navigate it. 

Manuscripts: I found my love for reading at a very young age. My mother taught me how to read via Hooked on Phonics at the age of four. After that it was very hard for me to even put a book down. I carried a book with me everywhere: the car, school, church, even camp. Fantasy, horror & thriller, science fiction, you name it I was reading it. An entire wall of my playroom was shelved floor to the ceiling with books filled with my own personal library which would transport me to new worlds.

My favorite books in my early elementary years were the Goosebump/ Rotten School series, May Bird and the Ever After, as well as the Left Behind Children series. In junior high, I fell in love with Ellen Hopkins and her poetic writing style as well as Shakespearean plays. I also loved to read Greek Mythology and of course the Twilight series. Many of these books I still own to this day.

I loved being transported to another world with every page I turned. With every word I read, I would be so engulfed in the writing that I would completely tune out the world around me. I would read to my cousins and siblings at my grandparents' house during our sleepovers and now I get to read to my daughter. 

The power of reading is what lead me to my love for writing. 📖

I would write poetry in my room all the time to express myself. It was my best creative outlet. I even loved to write and create short stories. One of my early writing memories was when I went too the scholastic bookfair and got a scary story book with a green hand and spooky lock key to accompany it. In the back there was a section that allowed for you to write your own narratives. I would create my own spooky stories that gave my older cousins a few chills. I would write short stories at school were a few were even published. 

Through high school and college, I was so occupied with studying and reading for my STEM courses that I felt guilty reading for leisure since I always had so much schoolwork to keep up with. Now that I finally have some free time, I've been looking to get back into hobbies that bring joy to my life and reading/writing seems like an amazing outlet.

Welcome to my unscripted and unfiltered life.