The most important things for me to be happy include my family, my three daughters and my husband, as well as my extended family, like my parents and my cousins and my siblings on my grandparent's. But even more so than that, spending time with those people, seeing those people's successes, communicating with those people and having that kind of support in my life is really important for my mental health. But even more so for me, my mental health really is at its peak when I have my own life outside of motherhood. It can be really easy to get caught up in raising kids and being a mom, and it could be really easy for that to take over someone's identity. So I think it's really important for all parents to have hobbies and have things that they love to do outside of parenting. If you like acting, do community theater. If you like music, keep playing your instruments, if you like projects do projects. And for me, that is my sanctuary, I guess, is building things and projects I love to keep my hands busy.

If my hands are busy then my mind is busy and I can continue to build and create and have an outlet from the stresses of everyday life and being a mom. So I think the things that make me happy are my family, my beautiful girls, my husband. You know, my parents, my siblings, but more so my independence. Like, I can think of the word in partnership with my relationship with my family. So having a good balance between being independent and having hobbies and things like that with being a family person and being committed to children and husband is really what makes me happy and helps me to stay happy and continue to grow.