End Zone (SEU #3)

[ 01 ] ANOTHER LIFE

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[ 01 ] ANOTHER LIFE

TOSHA

"Will you be able to send it to me through my email? I'm cooking right now." I told Lori, my assistant, who was currently showing me the sample designs of the bar menu that I was currently trying to restyle.

I was in the process of redesigning my restaurant, Kaila's Kitchen.

I named it Kaila's Kitchen, as a tribute to my mother's legacy and used many of her meals on the menu when I first opened. Additional items on the menu were ideas of my own that Matteo and I sorted out together. He was the most supportive husband when it came to the restaurant. However, while he was away for work, and once I got pregnant, things slowed down for sure.

Things were hard for me to do, working being a major stepback for me. Matteo was away playing for the season and I was home, pregnant, and trying to revamp a restaurant after being in business now approaching three years. I was grateful for the accomplishments I'd made and even more grateful that I decided to bet on myself instead of staying stagnant in my engineering career where I didn't find fuflfilment or enjoyment in the everyday swing of things. The restaurant allowed for flexibility and a way for me to give people a taste of my mother's life through her taste of cuisine.

I will say that Matteo did really well with his career and made more than enough money to take care of us on his own but I wanted to work for myself. I knew that he payed for our property and any remodeling that needed to take place for the house, as well as car maintenance, and the materialistic things such as clothes, jewelry and my personal maintenance treatments. Nevertheless, I enjoyed having something that was mine alone. I put my all into the restaurant and in a sense, it had become my first baby.

Although I didn't have the support of my father after all of these years, I still had the support of Aunt Shereé, my grandmother, KC, Niecy and Matteo's family. Regardless of the fact, I yearned to reach out to my father and simply check in on him but I never pushed myself to carry it out. I knew that nothing would come from seeking him out. Additionally, the life that Matteo and I created with one another over the years would be met with much more malice and hatred than proudness from my father.

I let things go a few years and have moved on but with this new baby coming soon, I couldn't help but think of their relationship to my father and Matteo's parents as well. Since Matteo's mother was thrilled with Matteo's new career and her first grandchild from Suzie and Keith, she was overjoyed to hear of my pregnancy news.

I knew that she'd be involved in our child's life as a grandparent and since Mr. Wittstock had cut back on his work ethic significantly to save his marriage, I was sure that I could count on him to also play a huge role as a grandparent to our child. It simply sucked that I didn't have my mother and after years of counselling, I've learned to not over-exemplify her absence but focus more on her memory and what she would want from me moving forward.

It definitely wasn't beneficial for me to live in the past but it felt like with every milestone, I found myself going back to my days in college and even worse, my childhood years.