A Little Bit Of Me

I went through some old pictures last night and I found these. These photos are extremely precious and priceless to me. You may be thinking...okay...what is the big deal about them???? The one on top is the ONLY picture in existence of my whole family together and the one of just my brothers and I is the ONLY picture in existence of all of us together while we were little.

Here is a little background about how our very humble beginnings as a family....

My mom was very rebellious child to say the least and she will be the first to tell you so I am not divulging any deep dark secret here. She is an only child and form what I have been told she was quite a handful back then and still can be to this day. My mom was introduced to my dad by her uncle who is her same age and was one of her best friends. From the time they met they were practically inseparable and only had marriage on the brain. My dad was old enough to drive when they started dating and they would always skip school together and they tried and failed to sneak away and get married three times. They crossed the border to Tennessee, Alabama and Florida and all three times they were turned away and told they needed parental consent. My mom says that after putting her parents through hell for quite some time with the skipping school and rebelling they finally agreed to allow her to marry my dad. (It helped her case by telling them she was pregnant...she wasn't....yet.)

My parents were married on December 23, 1972 a little less than a month before my mom's 16th birthday, which was January 14, 1973. My dad had just turned 17 on September 8, 1972 before the were wed. They were so young!!!!

My oldest brother, Chris was born on February 4, 1974, Jamie was born on May 31, 1976 and I cam along on November 17, 1978. These photos were when I was a brand new baby with really young parents. My mom was 21 and my dad was 23 in this photo...but they already had 3 kids!!!!

Neither one of my parents graduated from high school and divorced when after 15 years of marriage. I can't imagine all of the struggles they faced back then! I know that if they hadn't made the decisions they did back then I wouldn't be here but I wonder what they could have become if they had been a little less hard headed and rebellious and maybe married when they were older and more educated.

Well...that is a tiny piece of my life story and a visual aid.

Have a wonderful day everyone!

Later Gaters!!!!