Just realizing now...

This was remembrance day 2011... Jord had known the girls for about a month
Already acting like a dad :)

I think it's time I start a blog again... I feel like its been too long!

So we have been married 5 months today!!! It's wierd in one way I fell like it has gone by fast but in others it almost hard for me to remember when we wern't married?!

Just yesterday Jordan and I were talking about when he met the girls...
It was late September 2010. So I had dated a few other guys but none had really met the girls. I didn't want the girls to see men coming and going in our lives (cause that NOT what I want them to think happens!) Anyway it kinda shocked me when we were talking about it yesterday, heres why-
He met them sometime in October. He brought the mutt over (more on that issue another time ;) )and helped the girls and I rake leaves in the back yard. I just told the girls a friend was coming over to help clean up the back yard. At this point I was semi comfortable with him meeting the girls... but just as long as they knew he was a friend!
Then sometime in November Jordan wanted to take us (all three of us) on a date to the West Edmonton mall water park. This is when I think in my mind something kinda clicked, like wait a second... "he wants to appear as a family in public?!" So we did. I remember him offering to take Brookyln down slides that I couldn't take Georgia down, and saying he would stay with Georgia while I took Brooke. It all felt so natural?! Like all of the sudden I had help, and he wanted to do it?! I really can't put into words how overwhelming it was. And it isn't until just now that I am realizing how fast he became a memeber of our family... he really just stepped in to being a "dad" so seamlessly.
Before we were married I was kinda stressing out about when or if they would ever call him dad. Not a word of a lie to was pretty much right when they got back from DisneyWorld and we got back from Cabo that they just started calling him dad!
Now this post makes it sound like there have been no challenges with becoming a "new family"... I can tell you that's NOT ture! It's hard sometimes. I know I have a million and ten issues I need to work on, and Jordan has one or two things he's not perfect at. But the blessing far out weigh the struggles.
Until you are a single mom you don't know how nice it is to wait until your kids are in bed to run an errand! I'm so grateful to have a husband. He is not only a great husband either, he a great dad too, and he tries really hard. The girls LOVE him, he is their dad. period. I never thought I would be able to say that.
I am happy, life is good.