I feel like I came into this whole mothering thing on accident.  I never really knew what I wanted to do with my life, but marriage and  a family wasn’t something I dreamed about when I was little.  I worked and traveled some after high school, eventually finished college and began a career.  Then I met my husband and everything changed!  We got married after dating a short few months and I instantly became a stepmom to two daughters and a son.  A year later our first son was born, followed by his brother five years later.  Two years after that, when I was in my mid 30s, my oldest stepdaughter had her first child and suddenly I was a grandma!

Now all these years later there are seven grandchildren in our big, blended family — Bailee, Collin, Cameron, Preston, Sarah, Madison and Justin.  And that very first granddaughter got married a few years ago and had a sweet little boy named Hudson, our first great-grandchild.  I’m so proud of the men and women my children have become and look forward to seeing all the grands grow up…

So to my wonderful sister and sisters in law, my nieces and nieces in law who are all such great moms, Happy Mother’s Day! To my beautiful stepdaughters Esther and Naomi, and lovely daughters in law, Shelly and Christy, who are the terrific mothers of those wonderful grandchildren and to Hudson’s gorgeous mama, our granddaughter, Bailee, thank you all for being a part of my life.  I hope you have a spectacular Mother’s Day!

To my sons and stepson, thank you for being such blessings and having the good sense to choose such lovely brides 😉

And Happy Mother’s Day to all of you, too, my dear friends!