Established Date

The latest trend is art with your families established date; I am a single parent family. Since these pieces have come out I’ve longed for one. But, I’m not married… and in my eyes that meant I’m not a family? What here I am super mom. I do everything for my little’s. And here I am my own worst enemy; I won’t even allow myself an established date. So tonight, I ordered my FIRST and certainly not the last piece with our official established date. And in the last two weeks (it literally has taken me that long to figure out “when” we became established) I have thought more than I thought one person could think about 1 day! My first thought was well go with your birth year, 1982 you were born so that’s your date. Ok me and God talked and I couldn’t bring myself to place that order. Today profoundly, As if God himself were talking to me, I can tell you exactly where I was, what I was doing. I was sitting at the door of my dwelling place watching my kids play outside. And it hit me. The day I stopped being ME a singular unit and became WE somebody more than me, my family is my date. That exact date is my first borns birthday, but that’s not the day I consider. March 11, 2004 I found out for sure I was pregnant! And THAT is the day my me, was we. I didn’t care about what the baby was gonna be. I was filled with joy that I would be a momma! And today, I still am! So here it is...