By RACHEL EMERSON, Student Reporter
Each day, she wakes up to the sound of the baby monitor buzzing and the giggles of the girls on the other side.
Being a mom to twin toddlers, a police officer’s wife and a full-time teacher-in-training makes for some crazy days, but Caitlin Evans, makes the best of them.
Evans is a junior English Education major at Northwestern Oklahoma Sate University’s Enid Campus. When she was 17 years old, she found out she was pregnant with her twins, Allyson and Adalie Evans. Despite all of the obstacles she faced along the way, she went back to school in 2015 and hopes to graduate in 2018.
“When my parents found out I was pregnant at 17 with twins, they felt it was the end of the world, my world specifically,” she said. “They recently told me that I overcame every obstacle they could think of, but I couldn’t have done it without them.”
Evans said the biggest struggle she faces is learning to juggle all of her responsibilities and find balance between spending time with her family and focusing on her school work, but that none of it would be possible without her support system.
“I have an unbelievably amazing support system,” she said. “I wouldn’t be near this happy and successful without my supportive environment.”
Evans loves being a mom for multiple reasons.
“My girls are everything I could have asked for in children: beautiful, smart, funny, kind, and caring,” she said. “The way they tell me, ‘You the best mom,’ melts my heart.’
In the future, Evans wants to teach at Enid High School, her Alma Mater and eventually further her education to become an English professor.
Until then, she’ll continue to make the best of each day, knowing that her daughters love her unconditionally.