Here's to New Beginnings

It seems like it was just yesterday. It wasn’t a grandiose event; it was simple, elegant, beautiful and even a little painful, yet gloriously so. See, in order for this union to be happening; then that parting also happened and it left brokenness in its wake. And when you allow someone into your brokenness, it can be, take your breath away, excruciating, but then the healing begins, and it too can take your breath away, but in an awestruck, there is a miracle happening here, kind of way.  We both said, “Never again,” but low and behold, we said “I do” about almost a year ago, and what a year it has been.

There are no rule books for blending families. We have fumbled our way through, mostly through trial and error, if truth be told. And we have made a full year, full in the sense of full of laughter, tears, hugs, shouts, forgiveness, smiles, bumps, bruises, healing, and all the rest in between. It has been a year of stretching and molding into who we are as individuals and as a new family.  I like what we are becoming.