Life is looking good

I can still very vividly remember what it felt like to find out I was pregnant at 16. It’s a memory I don’t think will ever fade or go away. At the time I thought my life was over. I thought I had royally messed not only my life, but Cody’s life and my unborn baby’s life as well. What child deserves to be born to parents that were as young as we were? Every where I turned it seemed someone was trying to support me, but making me feel like a failure instead.

It’s funny how things work themselves out. If Cody and I hadn’t become parents at 17 then Cody would never have joined the Air Force. He might have joined the Marines, but he wasn’t really looking at the Air Force until he factored in a wife and child. I would have done my after high school plan of staying in Lake Havasu for two years going to the community college and then (hopefully) transferring to a state school so that I could save money. If I had done that, then I would probably be like the other people in my graduating class that tried that plan and never made it out of Lake Havasu. Who knows where I’d be now if I had stayed there, but I don’t think I would have been happy.

If I had done an adoption like we were pressured to do then I don’t think I would have stayed with Cody. I certainly wouldn’t be having more children with him after we gave away one. So because we followed our hearts we not only have Zach, but we have Wesley too and although they grate on my nerves at times I wouldn’t trade them for the world.

Now we’re living in Japan (and I never thought I’d leave the states) and we’re soon to be moving to MO. We’ve got money saved up and have plans to buy a house. I’ll be going to college as will Cody. Cody will eventually (next year) apply for (and hopefully get in to) the Officer program. They’ll pay for Cody to go to school and finish his degree and at the end he’ll be an officer. By the time he graduates school he’ll be 8 or 9 years in to the military and owe them 6. When those 6 years are up we’ll only have 5 or 6 more until he can retire. Did I mention he’ll make more then normal officers? He’ll make a lot more because he’ll be prior enlisted. He’ll also make more money retired then he’s making right now and we’re doing pretty good on his pay only right now. OH! And he’ll only be 37 when he’s old enough to retire and soon after our children will be graduated and out of the house.