15/08/2026
Ya’ll will have to bear with me but we’re using 2 whole days and more if needed to celebrate the miracle that is my gorgeous daughter Aleena. Na only me know wetin I take my eyes see throughout her pregnancy 😩🥲 so I’m celebrating being alive to tell the story, as well as the blessing it is to call myself her mother 🥲
My Dearest Lily Pie ❤️
There are a thousand things I want to tell you about being your Mama, my girl… but today I’ll tell you this.
Watching you grow has been one of the greatest privileges of my life.
Because you didn’t just turn one yesterday.
I watched a tiny little person become YOU.
I watched you discover your hands, your feet, your voice, your laugh. I watched you go from needing me for absolutely everything to developing opinions about what you want, where you want to go and, apparently, exactly how loudly you intend to communicate those opinions. 😂
And somewhere between the sleepless nights, the messy kisses, the endless cuddles, the chaos, the laughter and me taking approximately 7,000 pictures of the same face…
I fell in love with you a thousand different ways.
I love the baby you were.
But I am already so curious about the little girl you are becoming.
I wonder what your laugh will sound like when you’re ten.
What you’ll be passionate about when you’re fifteen.
Who you’ll become when you’re twenty-five.
What kind of woman you’ll be.
And Mama, I hope you know this:
I don’t need you to become anything extraordinary for me to be proud of you.
You already are extraordinary to me simply because you are you.
I hope you grow up know that there is more love than you’ll ever need at home.
And when you’re old enough to read these words, I hope you smile at how ridiculously obsessed your mother was with you. 😂
Because I am.
Completely.
Hopelessly.
Ridiculously.
And unapologetically.
You are my baby girl.
My answered prayer.
My little piece of heaven.
And one of the sweetest things Allah has ever written into my story.
I love you, Aleena.
More than you’ll ever understand.
With so much love my heart could combust,
Mama 🥹❤️
