If you asked me where I thought I’d be in 2 years two years ago I would’ve answered with something along the lines of “probably still living with my parents”. I lived with my parents until I was 19 years old. They were my grandparents but they adopted me when I was 4 so they were my mom and dad and I called them mom and dad. They were up in their age when they adopted my siblings and I so naturally as teenagers we weren’t taught how to drive or anything, and my mom ended up getting breast cancer so there was no time to do anything along those lines (and we didn’t know anyone else who would teach us). I know it sounds immature but as an 18 year old I had thought I found the right guy (my highschool boyfriend) and we were together since sophomore year and when we graduated I moved in with him and his mom and his sister and got a job as a CNA (but moved out later because they were trying to use me for money) and I moved back in with my mom who took me back in with open arms ❤️ Well, it wasn’t long after that my ex broke up with me (on my birthday) and left me devastated and worried about how I would have any kind of life (because my father “grandfather” was 72 and my mother “grandmother” was 66 so they couldn’t take on the burden of teaching their 18 year old how to drive, so naturally I stressed about the what if’s: what if they died and I was left not able to do anything, etc. I cannot count how many times I cried and prayed that God would intervene in SOME way. Fast forward a few months to when I turned 19. One day I noticed this guy liking my Facebook photos of myself, so I sent him “hey.” And naturally he replied. Not long that day a deep conversation started and it didn’t take long for us to open up about past relationships and it turned out his high school sweetheart and fiancé had cheated on him and broke his heart, to the point where he felt like he didn’t have a reason to live. So we continued talking and it started with phone conversations. We would text every single day, and he’d get off work at 10 at night and not care how late it was, he’d stay up to talk to me. Our first date was a little awkward (it was in the bed of a crappy ford on a backroad with food from LEEs) but it didn’t take

Long for us to click when we started talking about our crazy biological mothers (egg donors 🤷🏼‍♀️😂) and we soon found out how alike we really were. He took me home and we continued having a lot of dates and talked every single day and it felt natural. Fast forward a little january of 2019. We started dating officially and not long after the I love you came and from that moment we were hooked. Months passed and this was the guy I fully lost my virginity to (my ex didn’t know what he was doing and tried to pressure me so nothing happened penetration wise but still it was emotionally damaging) and this guy never pressured me. If we got into arguments he would leave college, stop and pick me up some chocolate, and pick some

Flowers from the side of the road an bring it to me because he was afraid he’d lose me. This guy was the one who would take on the responsibility of teaching me how to drive and would also be the reason why I became more in touch with the girl I had lost because of someone else. So that went on for a while and he helped me get my 2nd job (at a grocery store where he worked) so we spent even more time together. I loved how southern and sweet he was (and he is a Christian). Well soon after we got engaged and not long after we got married and have been married for 10 months and are expecting a little boy in September (a month after our anniversary). We rent our own home, we are about to own a vehicle (and will own 2 when the one we have now is paid off) and I may stress and we may argue but I sit and think about how blessed I am and how much god has blessed me. My mom told me at 18 to be patient, and I thought she was crazy, but I now see she was right. I may not be perfect, or a saved Christian, but I do know that god hears and answers prayers in HIS time. And I have never doubted him since. He’s been answering prayers for me daily and I cannot help but think about how blessed I really am ❤️🙏🏻 (sorry it was long 😅)