When you don’t want to STAY HOME
Staying at home is hard. Especially when you don't want to. 2017 I became a stay at home mom when I was 18 years old. Sure, it was because of a choice that I made, but it wasn’t necessarily “by choice.” It was an "unplanned" pregnancy. A crisis baby. I didn’t want to stay home and raise babies when I was 18. I wanted to go to college and see the world and be out with my friends way past our curfew and make irresponsible decisions like most other 18 years olds were making. But, motherhood happened and responsibility came hard and fast. And I mean really fast. The “elevator version” of our story goes something like this… We were 18 and I was 3 months pregnant when we got married. In the first FOUR years of our marriage we moved SEVEN times and had FOUR babies in those FOUR+ years. Our marriage was dysfunctional – At BEST. I nursed babies for a solid EIGHT YEARS STRAIGHT. And then we made the difficult decision to HOMESCHOOL our kids. Believe me when I t...
