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My Cover Photos...

To explain my cover photos I must take you back to almost two years ago when my doctor first told me I was going to be a mommy and man was I scared. But nothing truly shows how scared I was like the middle picture of me at seventeen just three months shy of my eighteenth birthday and there I am in a hospital bed holding my daughter for the first time. Only three years earlier I had swore to my parents that this exact thing could and would never happen to me... boy was I wrong. But the most surprising thing about that day was waking up after having a c-section to find that I was all alone. My baby's dad was in jail and my parents had left earlier to go home and rest. That is when it truly hit me that I Raelynn Sloan was going to have to do this on my own.

The next picture which is actually the first picture, is that same beautiful baby girl a little over a year later celebrating her second trip to the circus. Not only did she get to see one of the greatest shows on earth ( the Peru, Indiana Amateur Circus) but she also got to spend it with my cousins Kayla Kirstyn and Caleb who have all been in that very circus at one time or another.

The third to last picture was also taken that month about a week later when my baby girl turned into my big girl and moved into her first toddler bed and out of her baby crib. 

But wouldn't you know it life for me and Hayden is just getting started so come join us on all our adventures and learn first hand that not all teen moms are bad moms some of us are actually really good at taking care of our mini selfs.

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