Freedomtown IC

Yep. The high from "Kong didn't wanna catch these hands again" is officially faded away.

Back to trying to figure out what to do with myself, and see if I can get that swagger back.

[Brianna MacKenzie]
Tomorrow is my eighteenth birthday. If Sam is willing to go out, can you watch Taylor for a couple of hours?

[Sam Guthrie]
Are you up for taking me out for a couple of hours for my birthday? Somewhere possibly low key. I keep hearing about the crazier clubs around here, but I'm not up for big-time partying yet.

Just over a month ago, I had my baby. I decided to name her Taylor Beth Plunkett.

Some days, I wonder what I would have decided to do with her back home. That doesn't matter now, though.

While I'm here, I'd like to throw a shout-out to Sam Guthrie. I think we all can agree that most guys our age would run scared from a blind date with a baby belly.

Oh great...

My water broke.

Nothing like waking up with Braxton Hicks. I might not make it to school today.

I feel like Christmas celebrations should be more than just in December. I feel out of sorts without it.

Bowling. Saturday night.

Who's in?

My youngest son turned ten months today.

This is going to be a great Christmas.

I love the snow, it's awesome.

Family
What do you want to do for Christmas?

Being here has been very good for me.

For the first sixteen years of my life, my mother almost always seemed to be under the influence of something, making me have to be the parent for many years. This got worse when she got married and had my little brother.

When she got sober, she wanted to just magically be okay, just because she was finally being a productive member of society and actually trying to be my mother. I just couldn't, though. She didn't understand why. This only made things worse.

So because I'm away from her, and not under all of that stress, I've decided that I'm going to keep my baby. In about three months, I'll be giving birth to a little girl, and another month after that, I'll be turning eighteen about a month after that. As ready as I am for this, I'm terrified. I don't want to fall into the same behaviors that my mother did with me and my grandmother had with her.