Oh. My. Goodness. Do you know how broken-hearted I am for having to leave the above smiling baby face. I enjoyed our vacation to Ohio to visit our family. Kamiya even loved loving on her little baby cousin. She would lay her little head on his feet to comfort him. 

Kamiya enjoyed spending time with her Aunt and Grandfather. This is a picture of her at “Paw-Paw“‘s house.

The airplane rides were great. Everyone that sat around us talked about how calm and good she was during our flights. I guess she would be used to flying since I’ve been flying with her from 3 months of age.

I can’t wait to visit again and spend time with the family. I feel like the time passed too quickly! It’s back to work again!

I’m sad that my vacation and time with my best friend (sister) will end tomorrow. If I didn’t have work and college responsibilities, I would move back to Ohio just to be around one of my favorite people in the world. Kamiya has enjoyed herself and loves her baby cousin. It is so peaceful here compared to where I’ve been. I guess that’s why it’s called vacation, right? sigh

Here I go again on vacation and up at the crack of dawn. I plan to do absolutely nothing but a little schoolwork, editing, and a quick book cover design. Well, that doesn’t sound like nothing, lol. However, I’ll be doing all of this s in my pajamas. I’m just hoping Kamiya allows me to get some work done. She’s been clingy since we got here. If I walk out of a room, she acts like I’m breaking her heart. I’m enjoying her and enjoying my family. Times like this makes me wish we all lived closer to each other. Who knows, maybe I’ll move to Dallas when they move in a couple of years. I’m definitely not for moving back to Ohio, lol.

Are the best! I wish I was fluent in baby talk; she looks like she’s really trying to say something. :)

I’ll admit, I didn’t always appreciate the importance of family. I went through life watching my family love, fight, laugh, play, gather, hate, etc. Often, we become caught up in what we feel someone has done to us and we allow unforgiveness to enter our hearts. This causes unnecessary bitterness and gets in the way of unconditional love. The unity is broken because we become wrapped in our emotions. This open doors for regret as we never know what tomorrow holds.

After having Kamiya, I realized even more how important it is to me to teach her loyalty, honesty, integrity, and love. I want her to stick with our family and know that we are where she belongs no matter what.

We are currently visiting my family in Ohio. This past weekend we got together at my Father’s house and had a wonderful time. Everyone is so in love with her. She is loving all of the attention. The feeling I have is incredible. My Father and I cooked for the family, we laughed, we loved, and we thought of nothing negative. We cherished the moment. If God is willing, I’m going to try to give my daughter as many of these memories with our family as possible.

Peace, everyone.

Tomorrow morning Kamiya and I catch a flight to Ohio.  She gets to finally meet the rest of my family!  And all I can think about is all of the food places I’m going to visit while I’m there.  Places that I don’t get to eat at often because I live in Baltimore, lol.

Gold Star Chilli

Frish’s Big Boy

Moon Garden (Koren food…yessir)

and of course Daddy’s good ol’ fashion BBQ!

Ahh…home sweet home.