39 Year Old Grandmother

People were marveling over the idea of a 39 year old grandmother, so I wrote this.

39 y/o grandparents are the way of humanity, in the grand scheme of things. My grandmother married at 16. She and my grandfather met while working the fields near Brownsville. My grandfather learned paperhanging and saved up enough money to buy a 50 acre farm. My grandmother had her first child, my mother, at 18.

My mother married at 18, my father was 29 at the time. My mother had her first child at 20 y/o. My father only got 2 year degree, so I was the first in the family to finish college.

Everybody has a different story, a different path they take through life, and everybody has different values. It's good to not be so judgmental until you've walked a mile in someone else's shoes. Usually then you can see how things turn out the way they do.