Continuing with our “Why I Love Being a Young Mom” series, here’s another reason to be grateful for your early mama lives:

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There’s been some heavy discussion here on the blog lately (and thank you all for contributing your thoughts and opinions!), so let’s lighten it up with a discount.

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I’ve had this article bookmarked on my computer for awhile now and I keep passing by it while searching through my toolbar. It’s about a 22-year-old single girl named Emmie who found out she was pregnant right before starting a demanding graduate program in a city that’s three hours away from her family and friends. She wrote into the New York Times’ Motherload blog asking for advice. (This was back in 2009, mere months after I had my own baby at 22 years old.)

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So my weekend post is a bit late, as the weekend is winding to a close. My sister came over on Friday morning to spend the day/night with Noah, while Justin and I did something very uncharacteristic: visited friends for the night down in Brooklyn. We were able to spend over an hour in complete silence on the Metro North (heaven, I tell you), then meander through Manhattan (videotaping taxis and construction and Times Square for Noah) until we finally landed in Park Slope, Brooklyn to relax. (Park Slope has a completely different energy than the hustle-and-bustle of Manhattan.) We actually went to visit friends in the apartment that we used to live in before Noah came along. The apartment that Noah was conceived in, actually. I hadn’t been back since then, so it was an interesting experience.

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Lisa Belkin over at The NYTimes Motherlode blog reported that there’s been a shift in the importance of parenting and partnership for the Millenial generation. Marriage is less of a priority than ever — but how do young Millenial parents (clearly the minority) feel about the issue?

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In my former pre-baby life, I was trying, testing and writing about beauty products. (Did I ever tell you that?) But now that I have to actually pay for mascara and bronzer, those luxury brands (which I grew to love) aren’t exactly in my budget range. In fact, I recently decided to treat myself at Sephora (rare to say the least), leaving with a mascara and eye brightener in an itty bitty bag. The receipt? $42. Obviously I went back the next day and returned them both. Because that’s just ridiculous.

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Note: This post made it to Yahoo Shine! Woo-hoo!

We’re all aware of the “young mom stigma” circulating in society. You know the one: Immature girl falls in love with immature boy and immaturely thinks they can handle having a cute little baby, only to realize they had no idea what they were getting into. They end up broke, uneducated, divorced and unhappy — secretly regretting the youthful years they threw away. Maybe they neglect their parental duties and go out partying at all hours of the night. Maybe they find themselves on a never-ending cycle of welfare. Maybe they blame their children for stealing their lives.

Sound familiar?

This tale was once again told over on Yahoo Shine in a post Why Don’t My Parents Want Me to Have Kids Young? by Jaipi Sixbear. And in it she bullets every reason why you shouldn’t have children young. She makes general statements like:

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Continuing with our Why I Love Being a Young Mom series, here’s another reason to be grateful for our early mama lives:

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