I have only touched on this before in one instagram post but today she was there for me while Craig was on the road so I figured it was time to write about it.

Never in my life did I think I would be a stepmom. I have two stepmoms who I love to pieces but I just figured my path would be finding a man, getting married and having babies together. Little did I know God had other plans and the man of my dreams would be a dad already. Craig and I dated seriously for 4 months before I got to meet Jax and the day I met him was the day I meant “I love you” on another level. It was the day I fell in love with my family and not just a man.

Jaxon’s mom has become one of my best friends. We have had our phone calls, texts, and indifferences but she has half of my heart because she made my oldest son. She has Jax Sunday through Thursday and we do Thursday to Sunday. This is not easy. My other two munchkins wake up every morning asking when “Bubba Day” is. But knowing he is with an amazing woman getting to hang with his neighborhood friends, he gets one on one attention that he will never get in our house with almost three babies, and he gets to do all the fun outdoors things that I can’t do 7 months pregnant right now makes everything a little easier.

I don’t honestly know how Craig and her do it. I can’t imagine being away from my littles BUT I do know that they both have a lot to get done on their time without Jax so when Jax is home at either house he gets quality time. It takes really amazing people to do what they do and even though they weren’t the right match they have handled this life with grace. They made it easy for me to come in and she accepts me as Ms. Taylor. I am thankful for my husband, I am thankful for my stepson and the brother to Kota and Gray and Boss, and I am grateful to Natalie for trusting me with her baby half the week.

Now all seriousness aside, everyone always asks if we are sisters because Craig has an obvious “taste”. She is a badass bike rider, she is a blonde haired spitfire, and she is an independent woman. I am a kind of badass softball player, a lover of all things music, and an independent woman. We have so many random things in common and when people ask if we are sisters we laugh. When we are at the BMX track people question which is Craig’s wife and it has been asked so many times now that at this point we will probably just say to you we both are. It is not conventional, it is not anyone else’s normal, but it is ours and we are living our best life doing it.

Cheers to the stepmoms and to the moms who live with stepmoms. It’s tough. We do our best knowing that our kids deserve the world and ain’t nobody got time for anything other than happiness and love.