The Unpretentious Mommy

Feeling down today ? It might not be you, so evaluate who you are surrounding yourself with! And always remember, the universe is going to give you whatever it gets from you! So keep it positive!

"You're too young!" If I had a penny for every time I heard that, I'd be a  billionaire . Literally. Marrying young is super common in the military community, and for many reasons (which I will cover in depth in my next blog post). In the civilian world? Not so much. So if you've ever been told, "you're too young!" you are in the right place. And I'm here to tell you that you are NOT too young. I married my husband at nineteen, he was twenty. We went to high school together, but we were not high school sweethearts. We started dating when he was in Texas completing his training to be a corpsman. Meanwhile I was home in Nevada (yep, our relationship was long distance from the start! *cue the gasps of everyone who says they could  never  do a long distance relationship*). We dated about six months before getting engaged, and tied the knot a couple months after that. Instead of having a honeymoon, four days after our wedding, we packed up a U-Haul...