The Next Step

The love of my life and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary in November and it has been every thing that I could have dreamed of--I would not want to imagine my life without him in my future. In the first 12 months of our relationship, he has become a very big part of my family, a very important part at that, but I often felt like things were incomplete because I had not met his 3 tiny humans. I knew that when he was comfortable with me meeting them I would, and I did not push him to make that decision because I did not want him to feel pressured and I did not want him to resent me for "forcing" him to make a decision that he was not ready for. I wanted him to make that choice on his own, when he was ready for it.

I am writing you today, readers, to let you know that I am beaming from ear to ear and have been since Saturday. Why, you ask? Because not only was this Thanksgiving our first time going to each others family holiday events, but I got to meet his kids.

That is right readers: he took that giant leap forward and let me meet his tiny humans. I could not be happier. What made it better was that my tiny ones and his tiny ones got along GREAT! And his three seemed to be really comfortable with me--I was even allowed to take the oldest one to get a new charger for one of her electronics, just her and I!

Later, he asked them each individually what they thought about me and while the youngest two just said something general along the lines of "I liked her," the oldest told him I was a "9 out of 10!" Needless to say, I am very happy with the outcome of our first meeting and I look forward to slowly getting to know them each more as we move into the future. Everything is exactly how I hoped it to be readers, and that makes this mommy beyond happy.