277. Great article on the value of getting married and starting a family -- not just wasting our time and money on frivolous things!
We were married 2 weeks before I turned 21, (Pal) and Wayne had just turned 25 years old. But he had a 2 1/2 year mission, and 2 years in the Army before we were married. He began college just 12 days before we got married, and our first four years of marriage were busy with Wayne getting his education, and starting our family -- almost in poverty! Our furniture was "early married", used, almost broken, etc. But it was fun fixing things up, and making do. Many other young couples were doing the same, and we weren't that unusual. We did have the GI Bill, but he still had to work a part time job continually. I did odd jobs, tended children, helped serve at dinners at the college, etc., and taught a few piano lessons. We had our first child, a son, within a year, and our second, a daughter, during college, and the fall after Wayne graduated our 3rd child was born. What a blessing they have been to us, as well as the rest who came la...
