Blessed To Be A mommy
For Women searching for love, striving to have or balance family life
great re-energizer for me to meet new people and inject new perspective on my career. In my mind, I always maintained that while I can’t control meeting the right “one” to have my family with, I was always in control of what I did to make a living. In South Florida, I shifted gears into reporting entertainment and lifestyle stories for South Florida’s Deco Drive, spending several exciting years covering red carpet events, traveling, attending VIP parties, meeting famous celebrities and all kinds of “socialites.” Then, my clock started ticking…LOUDLY…now in my mid-30’s and feeling SUPER single.
I’ll admit, I’m the kind of person to put a lot of pressure on myself and I have a hard time adjusting when things don’t go according to “plan.” So, I was starting to feel like maybe Motherhood just wasn’t in the cards for me. Now I know these days many women delay having children, and it’s definitely not uncommon for a woman to deliver her first child after the age of 35, but with no real “man” prospect in sight, I decided to make another move, back home to the Bay Area. Miami had been great to me, but the fast-paced, rock star lifestyle and land of big booties and the single scene, just wasn’t “in-line” with what I envisioned for myself.
One thing I clearly recall about really wanting to find a life partner and get on the right road to becoming a Mom, was to start living the life I wanted. I cut down on late nights turned early mornings out on the town, I put more focus on my faith and ultimately distanced myself from the things and people, who didn’t match up with my values. I returned to home base, the Bay Area, California, I believed a fresh start surrounded by family and friends was much needed. Well, as life would have it, my move home to the Bay Area wasn’t where I found “it” either, and not long after I made the cross-country move back to California, love finally found me, and HE was back in Miami!
You could say it was a whirlwind romance, we’d actually met many years before getting together,
I’ve wanted to be a Mom for as long as I can remember, a dream I’m sure I share with many other women. Growing up my plan was to go to college and be married by 23, with a baby by 25. Well, as life happened, my idealistic “goals,” didn’t play out that way! After college, I set out to pursue my career in broadcast journalism, and “on the side” indulged in my passion for dance, auditioning and becoming a member of 3 Pro Sports dance teams in my early 20’s. When I “got that out of my system,” I appeared on a reality show (in reality TV’s early days), and eventually moved to Phoenix, Arizona, when I felt it was time for me to grow up. Sure, I had boyfriends along the way – nothing ever very serious, lots of fun times with my girlfriends with a plethora of great life experiences decorated with doses of travel and adventure. But in my heart, I kept thinking the road (and timeline) to becoming a Mom couldn’t be far off.
In 2006, with my 30th birthday quickly coming around, I decided it was time for a BIG change and a move out of Arizona was what I needed, so I took a leap of faith and made my way to Miami, Florida. You know, the “perfect” place to settle down and find that special someone. Miami proved to be a
Aubrey Aquino