Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Married with children...at 22?

Due to the invention of Facebook people have been able to spy into the private lives of everyone that they add as 'friends'. Who am I to deny this new way of stalking? And here in lies the point of this post...why in the world are all the kids...and I say kids because I don't feel like a complete adult yet...getting married and having babies by the age of 22? Most of my friends told me in high school that they were going to wait until their mid-20s to get married and wait till late 20s to have kids. When I facebook 'stalk' friends from high school, middle school and new friends from college about 75% are married and 50% have a baby (25% of this 50 are expecting AGAIN!) These figures maybe a little off...I'm not a math person
Am I missing the new trend to get married young? Should I be thinking about kids at 22? I always thought that I would be the last one to get married, the last one to have kids....yadda yadda.
But now I really don't think that's a bad thing. Jeff and I have discussed marriage and we are planning on getting married next year, that means I'll be 23 and he'll be 25 and I think thats a good age. When it comes to babies I think I'll try to wait another year after that because who needs a kid at 23???? I want to be able to travel, especially with Jeff and not worry about taking kids or having my parents or his parents watch them.

I think I'm in a good place at the moment. Kids having kids? Not for me.

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