Ok, let's get the formalities out of the way, deal? I'm Brittany. 22 years old, married, 2 kids. To most, that's all you need to hear to assume the worst and most of you probably already have. Let me clarify, I was married BEFORE I was pregnant and I was married BEFORE I graduated from high school. Trust me, being the ONLY student refered to as Mrs was pretty cool and the fact that I wasn't pregnant and still married shocked and confused most of the kids as well as the teachers. Even more shocking, we're STILL married 4 years later and content. My son was the product of my secret weekend wedding and then 2 years later my daughter became the product of my husband's military retirement transition. Yeah, I said the bad word. I married a soldier, and an army soldier at that. No, he wasn't overseas, no, he wasn't getting ready to be stationed elsewhere and we decided to get married so I could go with and no, he was NOT my excuse to move out of my mother's house. We met at an ICP concert (if you don't know what that is, google it) and 2 days later we decided dating wasn't a bad idea. 2 months later we knew we HAD to have one another so we got married. A month later I moved out with my high school diploma in my hand and my mother at work (she knew NOTHING). A month after that, I was expecting my first child. Whoever thought Romeo and Juliet moved fast is getting whiplash RIGHT NOW! We fought and I left once or twice and we've shared more tears in our 4 years of marriage then in my 22 years of life, but I wouldn't take any of it back. We've grown together, loved deeply, and shown our families, friends, and outside world that we can beat the odds. Opposites attract but rarely last and if they do, it's a bad idea and everyone knows it and to be truthful maybe that's where we are. Maybe we're the bad idea our friends warned us about. But we love deeply and that was our downfall before we ever met. These are my trials, errors, and personal accounts of being a stay at home mom, young wife, and 22 year old woman on the move.
