M.O.E. (Mother Over Everything)

"Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path." - Paulo Coelho  

Almost four years ago, when I started this blog, my life was completely different. I was a full-time college student, a new mother, in a long-term relationship, traveling overseas and everywhere in between with my family.  

Those who are close to me and even some people who might have or follow me on social media may have some idea of the rollercoaster that life has taken me on these past few years. Who knows maybe one day, I may even share more about and go into depth about those experiences to those who do come across, read, and keep up with my blog. However, I am going to save the more dark and in depth details, possibly, for another day. Right now I want to talk about where I am today… 

Typically, you would think that in reading this that you would read that I am doing amazing and have never been better. And there are some truths to that idea. I am doing better now than I have been, at least since the summer of 2018. Although, in order to understand where I am today and how far I have come, you would need to understand where it is that I am coming from. 

You see, when I first wrote this blog, I was wanting to share my new experiences of going overseas with my family. I was excited and (still am) blessed to be able to say that I, as a girl from the not so best area in Iowa, have traveled overseas and have lived in multiple countries in Europe. Going into this, I knew there were some struggles within it all, but wanted to focus more on the positives… being able to travel the world and stay together as a family. I mean, as long as I had my family, nothing else mattered. We would always be together. Or so I thought… However, I didn’t have any idea that my new journey of traveling the world with my family was going to be one of the most loneliest, isolating and traumatic experiences of my life. And that family that I so desperately had fought to be together, was now ‘broken’ and never going to be the same. 

Speed forward four years to today, as you could most likely imagine, a lot has happened since I first created this blog. I am in a whole new space and place. I’m single now and have been for a while. I graduated college back in December 2018. I went from being a stay at home mom overseas, to going back to work and then back to being a stay at home mom, while now also having a career in which I, too, work from home. My daughter is now 5 years old and in preschool. Soon, my daughter and I, will be in a space and place where I am hoping that we can settle down and build a home, life, foundation and future. For now, home is wherever we both are and make it. We’re pretty good at making the most of that.

The only thing that remains the same from 4 years ago when I first created this blog and posted to today, is that I am and always will be a Mother Over Everything (MOE). 

For those who have read this far, I hope you enjoyed it and will continue to read and follow me on this beautifully chaotic life of mine. I am hoping to write more to not only share my experiences, but also to express my ideas, opinions, and myself in whatever ways I genuinely and authentically can. 

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Thanks for reading, 

Tahlya Oso