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Moments after I became a Mom. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ My heart is heavy because this is my first Mother’s Day as a mom, but also the first without my own. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I think back to Mother’s Day last year and I’m overwhelmed with emotion because we were celebrating her becoming a Grandma and me becoming a Mom and we had no idea that we would be robbed of that reality just one month later. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Learning how to be a Mom while grieving has been the hardest thing I’ve done. But being a Mom to Raya is what has helped me survive, smile, laugh and look forward to the future. She has been my biggest blessing, my ray of light, in the darkest time of my life. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And thank you to everyone who has checked in and let me know you’re thinking of me. I will be off my phone for the rest of the day and trying to enjoy the day (and maybe bake her favorite cookies). It’s what she would want me to do. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Happy Mother’s Day, Mom.

Navajo Nation has the highest rate of COVID infection following New York and New Jersey. Yet nowhere near the amount of resources to handle it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Tonight at 6:00 MST, @nativewomenswilderness launched a COVID relief campaign to help. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This campaign will serve three areas of the Navajo Nation— areas where our founder (@jaylyn.gough ) and ambassadors (@hozhorunner4 @shy_yazzie ) are from. Gallup (Eastern Agency), Shiprock and Page. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We will be delivering food and hygiene boxes at the end of the month to families in need. Families can apply on our website at nativewomenswilderness.org or a referral form if there is no access to Internet. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This is where YOU come in. We need help raising funds to supply these items for families. A food box is $55 and a hygiene box is $15. We hope to provide both for families. We hope to raise $15,000 and supply 150 boxes. Donations can be made on our website or on Venmo @nativewomenswilderness ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Please share, donate if you can and help us help our communities! If your families, companies, brands and corporations can help in any way, we’d greatly appreciate it! Philámayaye (Thank you)

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