Blog Post # 1
By: Lisa H
"I think I'll just start myself off with a summary of who I am and then eventually how "we" became "us". It used to just be me. I was brought up by my parents until they divorced at age 16. I have 2 sisters (one older and one younger) and a younger brother. My mother remarried when I was 18 and I was married 2 years later.
I had a pretty sheltered upbringing in a middle class family. My mom started out as a secretary and worked her way up. She stayed home with us every chance she got. My dad was an electrical engineer. I was always a homebody, and still am. I knew nothing about drugs, other than they were bad. I had actually never seen them or really knew anyone who did them. Yes, I had a drink or two while I was younger, but I don’t enjoy alcohol, so I might have a drink once a year now. I have never smoked or tried any drugs. I have been known to embarrass easily on certain topics and called a “goody goody” or “innocent” from time-to-time. Well, I’m not ashamed by that and I’m thankful for my sheltered upbringing. My older sister is mentally slow, due to a chromosome translocation. My younger sister and I are 12 years apart, but very close. She is now married to a very nice young man who grew up near here. My brother and I don’t talk a whole
lot, but we love each other like family should. He is now married to a nice woman from St. Vincent Island and they have their first child on the way.
I was young when we were married. I was 20 years old and so was my husband Brian…for one week anyways. We’d known each other since we were 3. He grew up living close to where I did, but we really never saw or were around each other until our mid-teens. Brian, too, grew up in a conservative Christian/Catholic family. He was VERY active in sports. In fact, in high school, he played every sport…I mean every sport and in college he was on a baseball scholarship. He was always so nice and considerate of others and I think that’s what ultimately attracted me to him. Not to mention his mom had a daycare and he LOVED kids. Plus…plus!
Neither of us finished college. We each only have one year under our belts. We chose to get married. I think I was just very non-directional then. Now that I have more direction, I can’t do anything with it. But, as I’ve told my friend, who I am close to, I chose this life and my children and I would never choose anything different. We decided that if we could afford to buy a house and we both found full-time jobs with benefits, we would plunge in. We had our first child 2 years after we married, but were pregnant before that."
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