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Welcome back everyone!! It has been a little minute and so much has happened since the last time we spoke. So we do have so much to catch up on, but I want to start off first by saying I officially completed my first school year back since my gap year. This past semester whooped my little behind but I did it and am now a rising senior at the University of Michigan.

Two weekends ago was senior weekend for softball and when I tell you I cried…. I CRIED! I don’t think I’ve ever cried so hard in front of so many people, but I believe it to be a testimony to how much this 2024 class touched my heart. I saw them start college, and it has been such a joy watching them grow up and overcome all the obstacles that have come along the way to complete their undergrad. It was sad knowing that it was supposed to be my senior weekend and graduation as well, but I do know that God’s timing is always right.

I am also now a Big Ten Tournament Champion as of three days ago! My team has been absolutely killing it, and quite honestly, I don’t have enough words to express how proud I am of them. The beginning of the season did not go as we planned, but that is why we play so many games throughout so many months, and that is to grow. And that is exactly what we have done. We are playing like the Michigan Wolverines, and oh baby, we are not done yet. The sky is the horizon for team 47, and it has been such a joy being a part of it. To think a year ago, I was in a hospital bed, frail and weak, getting pumped God knows how many drugs to survive, to then today packing up to get ready to go to Oklahoma for regionals and an opportunity to win the national title. I have to pinch myself—life does not feel real. God is so good, and my story and my life are a testimony to just that. The Lord has been restoring my health and my life little by little, physically and mentally. About six weeks ago, I got put on an official plan to return to play. Now, this doesn’t mean the comeback is for certain, for nothing ever is, but it is my way of telling you all that I am going for it and if I come up short, then at the very least, I will be a normal person who can do normal people things. Either way, it is a very blessed life and one I am so glad I get to share with you all!

So here it goes…

Since starting my blog I have published 30 pieces. I am a TV addict and when I realized I hit 30 posts and that my break from my blog was going to last a little longer than just a few weeks, I figured I’d make this TV show style and make these next 30 posts season 2.

Being that this is an entire new season I was thinking about making some changes. The goal of my first season was strictly a matter of getting comfortable with publishing my writing and giving you all a taste for what I am about. I hope by now you know that I am about a lot of things. I can talk about pretty much everything, make jokes when it seems inappropriate, relate apples to elephants, and be so blunt you would think I named this blog “Uncensored KROD”. I almost did and it definitely gives me ideas for future endeavors but this is America’s Blog with Kaylee America. Where me America talks to you America about life and we get real and personal. Last season I spent a great deal sharing my story and life experiences and what I have learned in my short 22 years of life. This season I want it to be about YOU!

My proposed plan for season 2 is to post once a week to allow you all more time to sit with the message and be intentional with it throughout the week. I will present a topic and share a piece on it as I usually do, and I will conclude each piece with a prompt inviting you all to apply the message towards your specific life situations. I will post the question to my Instagram, and I would love to hear what you have to say and if you would like to be featured on the blog.

You have all been such a joy and light in my life in allowing me to share my very vulnerable pieces and heal on here and I want to pay it forward to you all! So get up heree… LET’S Danceeee!

I’ll be dropping a new post every Wednesday at 10 pm ET and throwing out the question on my Instagram Story on Thursdays at 10 am ET. See you then!

xoxo,

Kroddyrich💋