

Nudey post for ✨attention✨ I just want to thank you all so, so much for sticking around during, by far, the hardest time in my life. I hoped to tell you what was going on sooner, but it has been difficult for me to get the words out and even harder to get myself out of the rut that I’m in to have the motivation to come back to life. Bruce’s mom (my mother-in-law) passed away last month. She was diagnosed with and had been fighting carcinoid cancer for 10 yrs, but her death was sudden and unexpected— she was only 68 years old. She was fine one day, in the hospital the next, given a 5 month time limit on her liver, and gone all within 3 days. Our family is torn up and still navigating how to cope and move forward without her. 😞 I don’t like using the term mother-in-law for my relationship with her because she was always so much more than that to me. That woman took me in 14yrs ago like I was her own and showed me the same, intense love and warmth that she showed her biological children. That never wavered in all the years we had together. I never, ever questioned her love for me. I used to take her to her appointments when she was first diagnosed with cancer and she always introduced me as one of her kids without skipping a beat. No extra labels or explanations. I’ve never felt a love quite like hers and I’m so grateful to have experienced it. I’m also broken and lost now that she’s gone. 😞 I kept putting off this post because it’s not easy for me to relive it through telling the story. Today is her birthday and I felt ready to address it. I need to get back to life and have happy distractions. I don’t really want to talk about this too much past this post as it has already been consuming my life. I did want to fill you in on what’s been going on as you deserve to know where I’ve been. I’m thinking I’ll do a free month for those who do/have subbed here once I’ve caught up with DMs and am back on track with posting. Or maybe I’ll send something out to those who are still subbed that would have been an equivalent PPV to your sub amount. Idk exactly what yet, but I’ll be thinking about it now that I’m able to get my headspace back into work. Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for sticking around. I have been drowning this past month in several ways and it did bring me hope to see that a good group of y’all had my back. 🥺❤️