I know what you’re saying and I completely understand what you mean, but unfortunately some people live in, what I like to think of as, a small mental box and their ignorance doesn’t allow them to open their minds to anyone else’s opinion or way of life because they fear they may be wrong and that scares them like hell, so they try to intimidate and force their views on others with their negative, small minded, thoughts and try to bother people, make people feel bad because it makes them feel like they’re heard and above somebody, but in reality they’re just idiots that nobody with a brain cell listens to, this is how it goes with people who are still racist or homophobic too, it’s just that particular person hates young mothers for having four letters at the end of their age, “teen”.

there isn’t really a typical day, no day is the same, but a day in the life of Misty is pretty damn fun if I’m honest.
a lot of feeding Elijah and changing his nappy, sometimes he aims at me and Lee while we’re changing him, haha! then Elijah will go to sleep after we play with him, steal all his little smiles and feed him and me and Lee will go do something like: play xbox, listen to music, talk, ect… the other day we had a really childish water fight, sometimes my parents have Elijah for a little bit and we go for a walk outside. some days I have shoots, some days we all go visit friends and family and some days Lee has band practice so I just hang out with my son. :)

I plan to go back to college either this year or the next and then doing an extra year, but at the moment I think Elijah needs his mama so for now I’m staying with how things are, we’re doing pretty well for ourselves so there’s no harm in just sticking with the way things are for a while, he’s only little right now so he can’t really interact with other babies and things until he’s about a year, which would be perfect really because then I could go back to college without being worried about him not having fun and enjoying where he is, which would be some form of play group or day care with other little babies, that way he can learn and see his friends while I do the same. :)

Everyone I told I was pregnant expected me to get an abortion apart from one person, who I am proud to say is and always will be Elijah’s godmother and my best friend. 

When I told some of my friends that I was close to at that particular time, a lot of them took a kind of “we will get you to hospital, we will get rid of it, nobody has to know, I’ll come with you” approach to it and the time I was kinda surprised myself because I was thinking “WOAH! this my decision, I don’t want to get an abortion, it’s not for me and “IT” is my baby.”

I took responsibility over Elijah because I love him and have since day one, I didn’t have to, I could of got an abortion or put him up for adoption, but I fought to keep him, I lost family and friends and it was all more than worth it, I kept him because I wanted to keep him and raise him because I love him, not because I had to.

your mother did the right thing by doing what she wanted and not giving in.