what i was: what i am

before i had me a husband and a couple of children

i was your average teenager

i dreamed of graduating

and i wanted to be a business owner when i grew up

i wanted to get out of missouri

i had friends

but then i found my REAL best friends

and we did everything together

if we could, we'd still do everything together

and then i got a boyfriend who was far too skinny

and we loved and broke up a few times

love freaked us out a bit

but we'd always come back to each other

then he left

for two years

and i waited and continued on with my life

i went away to college

made a few mistakes

moved back in with my parents (which isn't recommended in my opinion)

and then he came home

we got married

and started our lives together

we moved to idaho

and he joined the national guard

and we got pregnant with our first baby

a mere 3 months after he and she became we

and it was unexpected

and we lived and went to school

found jobs, quit jobs

and changed what we wanted to be when we grew up

i no longer wanted to be that great business woman

i just wanted to stay home

i became a mother, wife, and dental assistant

and instead of that doctor that he wanted to be

he decided that he wanted to serve his country, be a student, maybe dabble in exercise science

soon, one baby became two

and our lives felt more complete

we're still trying to figure out what we want to do with the rest of our lives

but we've got a pretty good start.

here's to the rest of our lives.

might they be as wonderful and unexpected as they have been.