I get to watch my human that I’ve created grow into a smart, funny, kind soul. Knowing that he gets to grow up and enjoy being just a kid. All the trauma and generational cycles ended with me. Seeing how much love he has for everyone and everything, makes me truly so happy and proud. I was a kid (18) having a kid and it wasn’t easy but I knew I wanted to make sure he would never have to know what it was like to be a kid who had to be an adult so early.

It was the summer of quarantine. We lived in a tiny place with no yard. So we would spend the entirety of our days at my moms and she had a blow up pool and some cheap tents. We did so much backyard camping that summer, making s’mores, swimming till the sun was gone. He laughed so much and learned new tricks in the pool, he never had to know how scary the world around us was at that time. We still talk about that summer, listen to the songs we had on repeat, laugh at our old jokes.

I would take him to an NFL football game. He so badly wants to be in the NFL. I tell him it is possible, college boys from The University of Oregon, our hometown go every year and play. If it meant inspiring him even more, Im all about it. Hearing the roar of the crowd, the intensity of the game in real life and not through the tv. It would be so memorable for him. Plus getting to say he got to go see the chiefs in real life, would be cool to any 10 year old football fan. He’s a big mahomes fan