I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little jealous of people who find “their person” early on. I love being single and focusing on myself, but I’m a hopeless romantic. It’d be nice to go on cute dates, travel, cuddle, spend the holidays together, and grow old with someone.
Let me tell you about the picture in Frame 1.
In August 2017, as a litigation lawyer in Lagos, I had work to do that required me to be at the office during the weekend.
There was only one problem that weekend.
I had a 16 months old son, no nanny and no one to leave him with at home so I asked my boss if I could bring him with me and she was gracious enough to agree. While I was working, my son fell asleep and I had to lay him down on the floor beside my table.
In that moment, I took a picture of him sleeping and made a promise to myself that if I ever had my own firm, at some point in that journey, no woman working with me who had a caregiver emergency and needs to be at work will have to lay her baby on the floor.
That same day, I thought of my struggles as a breastfeeding mother in the workplace and promised again that no woman working with me who had a baby will ever have to struggle for a private space to use her breast pump at work, relieve her aching breast to focus and save some quality milk for her baby.
Frame 2
Today, we finished the renovation of our office building complete with a nursing room.
Litigation is tough for women.
The firm should not make it tougher.
Strichland LP has a nursing room and today, by the grace of God, I kept that promise.
❤️
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This Laylatul Qadr, some Muslims are crying in sujood because of sins they cannot seem to escape. Some are addicted to things they hate. Some are ashamed of their past. Ya Allah, tonight grant them sincere tawbah, break every chain of sin, and replace their darkness with guidance.
I want the universe to send me someone to love. I'm not going on dating apps, or clubs, or anything where hook up culture is glorified. I want someone to find me where I least expect it and I want it to be real. I want it to be something we both can be proud of.
being a girl with small wrists is so hard because i can’t find any delicate, cute bracelets that fit me perfectly & don’t end halfway up the arm. ufff.