New Banner for a New Year ....

So .... the start of a new year I decided I needed a new banner to show how my family has changed in the last year.

Cal and Alana are engaged, and they have a date set of August 13, 2016.

Kale (the son of a friend of mine, who died a couple years ago) has been taken in by us, along with his girlfriend, and she has a little 18 month old baby from a previous relationship.  She's also pregnant.

They are mine now.

Sometimes I fell bad for the situations they grew up in.  Neither of them were really shown love or support, except for a few people in their lives, and that breaks my heart.  It's hard for me to say, but even my friend (his mom) wasn't that great of a parent.  She failed her kids in a lot of ways.  I hope that Dennis and I can give them the sense of family and love, and true support and guidance.  We just want to help them start a new, good, solid foundation for themselves.

My 7 kids ...  the four I gave birth to, Calahan, Noah, Nathan & Kaedyn, The adopted one, Kale.  And the two daughters I always wanted, Alana & Shila who are marrying two of my boys.   Along with that I am blessed with a Grandbaby and another on the way.   Also, Miss Jessa is deep in my heart, even though she's not here.  I'm not her mom, legally her step mom but until she because a true part of our lives, I'm not her mom.  Our family has eight kids, but right now I'm only mom to 7.  If that makes sense.

Our family went through such a hard year in 2014.  I thought we were going to come into 2015 broken and shattered, but somehow..... we came out together, bonded and stronger.  I hope that is our theme in 2015.