Introduction + Welcome!

Hi there! My name is Angelique and I am a 27 year old single mom. I have an adorable little girl, who is obviously my world.

I wanted to start a blog (again) to share my journey with people. I find blogs to be a great outlet to express one's creativity, so hopefully I can do that here.

Not only will I be blogging about motherhood, but also about life in general, trips, product reviews, etc.  

So, on to my backstory.




I became a single mom after my first marriage ended in 2012. My beautiful little M was born in 2011, and I essentially raised her on my own (meaning, without help from him) from the get go, since my then husband had left for deployment five days before she was born. We had not had the best marriage, and I knew that there was a huge possibility for a divorce, especially when he got home and did not have any interest in our daughter.

Long story short, he left soon after he returned home from deployment and decided to end our marriage through a text a few days before Thanksgiving of 2012 (What a stand up guy, right?!) Per state laws, I had to be separated from him for a year before getting divorced, so finally in 2013 I was officially a single woman again. I was happy and sad at the same time. My ex has nothing to do with my daughter per the court.

I was terrified because starting over as a single mom is scary. Who wants to be with a woman with "baggage?" I don't consider my daughter baggage at all, but I know a lot of men consider children from  first marriages as such. You can imagine that this made my dating life hard. I would go on 1-3 dates with guys and then lose interest because I didn't feel a connection with them or they were too much like my ex, which I did not want at all.

Flash forward to fall of 2015 and I finally met someone worth being with. Honestly, during the first date I felt an immediate connection with him. It wasn't love at first sight, but it was definitely something good. I was still hesitant to continue dating him because I knew my track record was not that great. I figured I would follow the same pattern and lose interest in him quickly, but to my complete surprise, I didn't. I wanted to continue dating him and I wanted us to work.

Well, here we are almost 4 months later and we are still together. Has it been perfect? No, not at all. We definitely get on each other's nerves sometimes and we have had little arguments, but each time we come out and fix it. Honestly, I like that it isn't perfect. If it was perfect, I would be worried that if we got into some major argument/fight down the road that we wouldn't be able to fix it since we would not have had any experience with it before. So, we are not perfect, but we are doing the best we can with each other, and that's alright with me. Not to mention he is also amazing with M. She loves him, and he is so good when he is with her. We both got seriously lucky.

So that is where my life is currently at right now. I'm happier than ever and I'm hoping it continues. I hope you enjoy reading my blog, and if there is anything you want me to write about, let me know and I will do my best!


EDIT: I want to clarify that yes, I am a single mother but I do have a lot of support from my family. I'm not doing this completely on my own, just without a father figure.