When I was a teenager I was a wild little thing. I wanted to get out into the world and experience everything life had to offer and to heck with the rules. No, I never got arrested or did anything too terrible but goodness my head was in the clouds. My heart though landed on a boy. A most unexpected one at that. My gothic extreme self fell for a down to earth geeky hotty boy who thankfully put up with me.
Then he did something young kids are told never to do, he asked me to marry him. I was 18 years old and he was but 21. We knew nothing of the world. But we wanted to. Of course I said yes. But not before I had thought about a question I think more women should think about. Would he make a good Dad. I knew at some point that day would come. Yes, I had some fun with wild boys but in the end it always came down to seeing a real future with them, and I couldn’t. I joked that at least with one of my romantic wild boy interests that we would end up killing each other. Maybe I will blog about him stalking me someday, or about me hitting him with a car. He asked me marry him too by the way, one of the wild ones.
But Your Too Young!
Maybe Not
All these years later, 16 to be near exact, the wild one and I are distant friends. He got married some years later to a woman much older than him, and he settled down. Good for her! They though didn’t have kids and have moved past that part in their lives. I think sometimes that could have been me. They do some great fun things, and still have some adventures out in the world that I can’t have because I am a Mommy dedicated to my family. Truly though, I wouldn’t change my life. I asked one of the right questions and I knew the answer. Not only did I love my geeky hotty, but I knew he had a heart that would make him a great father some day.
6 Months after we got married we got pregnant. If you follow this blog you know we have 4 wonderful kids now. Young love can work, specially if you have someone worth coming down to earth for. It is hard to really see things through the clouds! 16 years later, still married, still happy!
Wishing my darling husband a happy fathers day. We spent it with the kids, they cooked for him, played minecraft as a family, and went to a drive in movie. Life is good.
