what did you just say?

Last night we went to this relatively new restaurant in Gloucester called Latitude 43.  The restaurant was beautiful, the food was amazing and the waitress was a super chatty native about my age.  She took to Nash immediately and understood the importance of the order of his Speed Racer cars.  I guessed she was a mom too, which of course she was.  Only difference was that her son was twenty-one and a senior in college and mine just finished kindergarten!  Which of course brings me to the story that Time magazine broke last week.  Maybe girls in this seaside fisherman town have been having babies at an early age for a long time, but now they’ve taken it to a new level with this high school pact.  Seventeen girls, all 16 years old or younger, got pregnant so they could have and raise their babies together.  WTF??  I was more than twice that age when I had Nash and I had a loving and supportive husband as well as a stable job with great benefits and it was still a hell of a challenge.  I don’t want to preach or place blame, I’m just venting because I just really want these babies to have a fair chance in this world and I don’t think they are going to get it and that make me sad.