Step Mom? Mom!

Hi, Its Ro. As you may already know now I have 4 children. Jackson is now 20, Casey is 19, Joshua is 18 and Jason just turned 18. I am so proud of my children and who they are becoming. What is interesting is if you ever have the chance to meet us as a family you will never know that some of my kids are actually step children (I hate that word). To me though even though they may have other moms or dads but they are all my children in my heart whether I birthed them all or not. When I met my husband I had two children and he had two. All the kids were between the ages of 8-10 years old. I am blessed to have had them all live with us even though they all go and see their other parents on vacations or summers. I have had so many instances where people find out we are a blended family and try to pick who belongs to whom. They usually never get it right. Which deep in my heart makes me happy because you can't tell who belongs to who because they all belong to us. I am glad that all of our children have many parents who love them. I am also glad that I have all four of them. To be honest, I always wanted four children but my body didn't think that was the best for me and I had to get my tubes tied after two. God knew my path well before I did and I ended up with the four that I have now. Its been ten years now as a Step-Mom ( I would rather say Mom, or other mom). I treat all my kids the same. Not once have they ever felt as if I loved one more than the other. Actually they all think that they are my favorite which I love. We are very blessed because they had always gotten along and called each other brothers and sister from the get go. I have heard of many families who are blended having a VERY rough time. We haven't had that as they were growing up and I know to feel very blessed about that. They are very protective of each other and definitely don't see each other as steps either. I think it helped that they started out as friends first and were all very close in age. All four of them are within 2 years of each other but according to their birthdays ended up a year apart in school which helped out also. I love my children. Although they are all technically adults now I will always love my babies. I am so blessed to be able to spread my love and to be there for them all. Thank you Lord for seeing my future before I did! Not being biologically related to a child doesn't make you any less of a parent. Being a real parent isn't in the DNA its in the heart.
                                                                     Love, Ro