2024 Life Update
To quote Lizzo - “it’s about damn time!”
Your girl is back at it and boy, do I have a life update for you.
I will start with the most major one. I am a mother to 2 little human beings! We welcomed our son, Calvin Josiah Jefferson, into the world at the end of May and he is just the sweetest little angel. I forgot how satisfying it is to have a newborn! At the moment, he just loves cuddles and milk. It seems like so long ago that my daughter, Olivia, was this tiny! Now, she is a three-nager and navigating big emotions in a liiiittle body. It is just absolutely wild to me that I am this deep into motherhood already. I swear I had to remind myself 3 times a day that I was indeed not a teenager who was pregnant and this was, not my first, but my SECOND child!
Speaking of pregnancy, this second pregnancy really whooped my behind. I tried my best to have a positive attitude towards it, but truly I was so sleep deprived and mentally/physically drained. It was not a pleasant experience and was so different from my first pregnancy.
Another 2024 life update was the start of my THIRD YouTube channel! I decided to make a personal finance YouTube channel that is all about our debt free journey. I have been enjoying this new channel immensely and have taken it upon myself to learn as much about personal finance as possible. I have always been slightly interested in personal finance, but felt embarrassed that I didn’t already know what I felt was common knowledge. Now, I feel like I really have a solid baseline and am working on building upon that! My parents got me a kindle for Christmas last year and I have been putting it to work with Personal Finance and Personal development books!
I am hoping that the rest 2024 will be amazing. I feel like the last 6 months or so have been hit after hit (and not in a good way). It is hard to stay positive in the face of so much negativity and bad situations. There’s not much I can share in relation to that, but let it be known that social media is nothing but a highlight reel. You never know what people are going through in life and how difficult it is behind the scenes. I am going to continue to see the positive sides of things and hope that the hard times will help stimulate growth. If I don’t believe that good things are just around the corner, I would sink into a depressed state (and I really don’t wanna be there).
Anyway, I am officially relaunching the blog! I am also launching my Etsy shop officially this week and have returned to my Youtube channels with a bang. I feel extremely motivated to create some side income for my family. Two of my Youtube channels are monetized and I am working on getting my new one monetized. As for the blog, I am not sure if it is possible to even monetize it, but I am looking at it as a creative outlet! I am planning on posting about things I am passionate about. Whether that is my Christmas decoration wishlist, my newborn favorites or the top 5 books I have read recently! If you are interested, follow me on my Instagram so that you don’t miss a blog post.
If you read this far…. you are a real one! See y’all soon :)
