Flying Solo And Soaring

By Wanja Aaron

Flying Solo And Soaring shares lessons and strategies that have helped Naomi become a lone successful parent. The book focuses on helping you who are walking this journey of single parenting.

Naomi through the book focuses her skills on helping single parents build an environment that will help them find joy and contentment in parenting alone.

In this book, she also gives you a peek into the depth of her love for the written word in a poem she wrote.

'SOAR'.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wanja Aaron
• Release date: Oct 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215840474

Book preview

Introduction

It was an interesting October in the year 2007.

I woke up determined to overcome my fear of needles and go to the hospital. It had been two weeks of fevers, vomiting, headaches and stomach cramps. Loss of appetite was what did it. I am such a foodie. Since I had just come back from a different town a couple of months before. I assumed it must be a bout of Malaria because I hadn’t taken prevention drugs when I got back.

That Friday, I woke up a naïve almost 22-year-old girl. I went to bed a soon to be single mother.

I remember the doctor asking me when I had last seen my monthly period and clueless girl that I was I couldn’t remember. I was so used to an erratic cycle that missing my menses for a month or two was the norm. I felt my privacy being intruded upon and I wondered why he would want to do a pregnancy test.

He came back with a smile on his face....... Wanja, your disease is nothing serious. You will be better in a few months. When did you last have your menses? I gave him the date. He did a little scribbling and announced with a smile...." You will get better in five months’ time. You are currently four months pregnant according to my