by Lori Anderson

Created on: March 05, 2007   Last Updated: October 31, 2008

Being a mom is the most difficult and rewarding job a woman can experience. The moment I found out I was going to have a baby I had mixed emotions first I was happy then I cried then I got scared. The happy part was knowing I was bringing a new life into the world to share my life with. Then I cried because I wasn't sure how I was going to take care of a little baby when I was in a crisis of my own. I was unemployed and the man I thought loved me was not in my life not by my choice but his. I was young and independent but I was also madly in love with a man almost eleven years my senior. There was one problem though he had a drinking problem and with me being so young and naive about this problem and being pregnant it really made me scared but not as scared of telling my own mom that I was going to be a mom.

I lived it all with having my daughter at a young age and getting married and divorced all by the age of 20. I grew up though lived being a single parent and moving cross country away from my friends and family including her dad too.

Circumstances beyond my control I eventually remarried my daughters father and being happily married going on 21 years now and I have a teen age son and a four year old granddaughter.

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