How else do most people meet these days? Our story started on the internet and I don’t know that you are ever hopeful in this annoying and uncomfortable process but after quite a few late night FaceTimes we realized we were not being catfished. Tom and I both navigated our fair share of heartbreak but maybe that was the preparation we needed to recognize what we had in front of us. We were careful throughout as our children have always been at the forefront of our thoughts and steps. Merging two past lives to find our road took some time but I think we actually find the most ease in the unconventional. We were blending two people with only children. Rowan is the athlete and the social one who will find a friend on any outing. Lexi is the shy but talkative child and has a passion for writing and the theatrics. How nicely it worked out that Tom gets a total sports boy to pour his Kentucky propaganda into and I get a girl who has grown to love the theater and writing, which are two of my very favorite things. It had been nice to find something that just fits and it makes all of the changes easier for the four of us. We love to travel and adventure together, experiencing plenty of firsts as a family. A family is exactly what we are with or without a marriage but on a trip to Iceland, we decided to make that commitment to each other as well as Rowan and Lexi. Cinder hasn’t had too much of an opinion. I think he just barely tolerates all of us. Our hope is that our kids see love and that it doesn’t have to be cookie cutter. They have seen it takes compromise and patience. It may have more differences than it has similarities, but that it still can be cohesive. Family doesn’t have to fit in a standard mold. Find the way it works for you and that makes it easier to know the person or in this case, the people you want to do life with. There is so much more left to write in our story, and we are happy to have shared so many of our chapters with all of you on those pages. Here we go. ‘Til Death