My Cinderella Story: Sharing the Glass Slipper

 Hello everyone!!  I want to once again say thank you to everyone for supporting me and having an interest in my blog! I am beyond excited to say that I now have an OFFICIAL website!! I launched it yesterday! So please continue to show some love and support and go check out the website!  And don't forget to hit the follow button and enter your email to make sure you never miss a post!!!  http://veronicascinderellastory.com

     Let's be honest, all my life all I ever wanted was to be a mom. I was that child who didn't dream of growing up to teach or be a doctor but just simply be a mom. When I was told getting pregnant for me would be difficult because of my endometriosis I was devastated. And you could just imagine the joy I felt when I learned I was pregnant but also the fear that came along with the what ifs. Being a mother has been beyond what I ever imagined it to be like. In these first 6 months (Yes I can't believe it's been 6 months already) I have learned so much, including that being a mother is everything I had wanted and more.  Everyone was quick to warn me of the bad things: "You'll never sleep again" "You will never feel like yourself again" or even "Just wait for the spit up and poop and pee." But what they didn't tell me was the amazing heart-filling moments. Wait for that feeling of when I hold her for the first time. Wait for the mom

  "You don't hate change, You hate the way people try and make you change." This quote was said at church on Sunday and it really got me thinking, it really isn't the change part is it? I hate change, thats what I've always said. I dread change before change happens. Except thats really not the case. Going to college was a change,  getting married was a change, having baby was a change. All three of those things were choices I made and I was beyond happy about those changes. So do I really hate change?  The preacher went on to say how we are hating the COVID guidelines and mandates (just examples) but then he pointed out that while we hate those things we love the changes that we choose. Because its not the change we hate but how people make us change. The choices we don't make ourselves or even when they are negative in some way. Just like a demotion vs. a promotion. We love the change when its a promotion but hate change when its a demotion. We don't wan

  This is a topic I have to constantly remind myself. Change of mentality will change your life. Let's be honest, its pretty simple to use the words "I can't" and its definitely something we tend to lean on as a crutch. Do you realize how toxic that is? And oh so negative! Let's change our mentality! Let's be more positive! How about instead of focusing in on the we can't do we focus on what we can. Change our thought process. Instead of saying "I can't do that today", let's focus on "but I can do this" or "I can't handle that" But "I can handle this."  Being a new mom this is definitely something I've come to really think about. I was really focused on everything I needed to get done that I found myself going into the I can't stage. I had so much to do and no longer knew where to start. Between adjusting to being a new mom I found that "I couldn't" go and clean an entire room in a

 There are many posts I can make in relation to having my daughter back in April, but I figured this one should be first. There are so many things that people look forward to when they are pregnant. Baby showers, gender reveals, family seeing the baby after he/she is born, and those visitors after you get home. For many those things were taken away.  I was a few weeks to the end of my pregnancy when everything started. For those last few weeks instead of going out to get last minute things I was contained to my home to be on the safe side, sending out family members to pick up things for after my daughter was born or even ordering online. No family could go with me to my drs. appointments anymore. For every single appointment I had no been alone, if my husband couldn't attend then my mom would. I was never alone. But those last few weeks...I was. Only I could go. Those last few weeks were nerve-racking enough. I was going to be a new mom, going through things that were so new. Prep

Hey Guys! It has been over a year since I last posted on here and for that I am truly sorry. Time sure has flown and wow has things changed. Major life changes at that. I hope all is well with everyone and I would love to hear back from you all about how life has been. With that let's get to the updates because there have been LOADS of changes in my life. One life change is that I have completed my Peer Specialist certification! This was months ago and this is something I will have to get into what all of that is about later in another post!  I have finally finished college with my ASL Interpreting Bachelors degree. I will technically graduate this coming month (July) but I finished in March. It was a long and difficult journey and I have learned so much about myself during this journey also. I am super happy to be done and to start with the next chapter of my life.  The biggest life change and best of all is my husband and I welcomed a little girl on April 8th. If