Introducing Myself

Hi everyone! I just wanted to take a moment to introduce myself.

I am Brittany from The Greer 5. I am not going to link to it as, this is all about Making A Mommy and not me. My profile if you are interested is down on the right under Contributors.

I am a "young" mother of three amazing children. My oldest daughter is 8, my son is 5 and my baby girl is 3. I am married to the father of all three children and we have been together going on 10 years now.

I say "been together", because we only recently got married. We did everything backwards. EVERYTHING. So let me explain our journey and why this blog touches my heart and hits so very close to home.

I was 16 years old when I met Brent. (husband) I fell instantly in love with him. We talked a lot about our past and he informed me he already had a son. Unfortunately we have no idea where his son is and we don't get to be a part of his beautiful life. My heart strings were pulled and we both discussed having kids. Yes, at 16 I was discussing having a child with a man I just met. I had already graduated high school (early) and was working part-time. I thought nothing of the future, consequences or what just may happen if we actually had a child. But off we began with the journey of making our own baby.

I gave birth to my oldest when I was 17 years old. It was a rough pregnancy. I was in and out of the hospital with various complications. My family did not see eye to eye with my decision to have the baby. I felt very alone, very lost and confused. Brent stuck it out with me though. Through all the torment and heartache he never left my side.

Now we have three amazing kids, finally took the plunge to get married and extremely happy. But not everything works out this way. It was not easy at all. We lived poor, we fought, we cried, we struggled, but through it all we kept our faith in each other.

Things are very different in my life now. Brent works for a great job and I stay at home. My family and I are healing and have become closer. If I had someone as amazing as Kadi in my life during those dark days, I think maybe I wouldn't have made some of the choices I have. So this blog and what Kadi is doing touches my heart beyond words.

Being young is hard. Becoming a mom is even harder. Mix those two together and it may just become disastrous. But with the help, love and understanding of many it just may make it easier.

So thank you Kadi for letting me contribute to something amazing and I hope my experience can help! Also thank you to all you great readers out there for allowing me to introduce myself.