If you would of told me 10 years ago that I was going to be lead role in a blended family I probley would of laughed in your face and said you were crazy. SO many times you hear people talk about there other family or my mom’s husband or my dad’s wife. But do you ever hear them talk about how their parents can co exist with each other and their spouses?

Now today I would have it no other way. God threw us in a blender mixed us all up and poured a glass of Gardner Family.

Blending a family all together is a complex recipe. One that takes much patients, tons of understanding a unmeasurable amount of love, a pinch of humor and a dash of getting along with the ex’s.

If you put all those ingredients together you will come out with the most wonderful, sweet, family you could imagine.

Don’t get me wrong. It takes much work to make a blended family work. And you HAVE to love each family member as you do your own blood because in a blended family all the children involved are part of you.

Now you will hear me or actually see my type step-son and honestly you will only see it on rare occasion and that is just to let you know that I am part of a blended family. But my son is my son and I love that boy as much as I do our girls. And if anyone says different watch out because dynamite comes in small packages.

One thing my husband and myself have done to make this work is we go out to dinner with my son’s mom and her boyfriend. Or we just all go and do something together. We do this to show our son that we love everyone in his family and we can all get along. That means there is no choosing or making him choose one family or two. My son can have the best of both worlds.

So throw us in the blender, blend us all up and be prepared to see an amazing family come out.