wine glasses and sippy cups??

Take a journey back in time with me....to January of 2012....

I had reached a point in my life where I thought I was never going to get married.

I mean, sure.  As a kid - I had always thought that marriage was going to be part of my life.  But then, I grew up and my friends coupled off and married while I stayed single.  I wanted to find love, but it seemed that it wasn't going to happen for me.  I had accepted it.  I had even embraced it.

In walks the plumber.

Literally....my sewer backed up the first weekend I was in my house and I needed a plumber.  Little did I know, that $400 service call would introduce me to my husband.

I never thought the relationship would work (a blog post for another day) but I stood in my kitchen about 2 weeks from my wedding day in April 2013, when the idea for this blog was born.

You see, my husband has a little girl.  An incredible little girl who is beautiful, energetic, smart, loving and full of laughter.  But as a woman entering into marriage, a woman brought up on Disney and who's first musical performance was in the show Cinderella the idea of becoming a step-mother was terrifying.

I stood in my kitchen, placing one of my most prized wedding shower gifts into the cabinet.  A matching set of wine glasses (thanks to my 3/4 wing friends!!).  I wouldn't have to use mason jars anymore (alright....fine.  You got me.  I still use them unless I have company...) I was a big girl.  But I opened the other side of the cabinet and saw my soon-to-be step-daughter's sippy cups sitting on the shelf next to my new wine glasses.  I just had to laugh.

I don't really know what this blog will turn into.  I don't know if anyone but me will ever read it or benefit from it.  It's my thoughts and mistakes and victories along this adventure called life.  It's my realization that step-mothers don't need to be evil (although when my step-daughter asks me to read her Cinderella before bed, I still get nervous).  And most importantly, how God works in our family to work all things for good - even when it takes us a long time to see the good.

So - there's the back story.  Thanks for joining me on the journey.