Thankfully I was able to very easily slide into my role as step mom/New parent. Even though I hadn't yet had any children. There really wasn't a transition period for me. I knew what my role would be if I wanted the job. And I knew I wanted the job.
As a very young child I became very comfortable with the concept of "step parents". Through out my life I've had 4 step (or "potential" step) moms and about to have my 3rd step dad. This is a subject that I am all too familiar with. I believe I was loving and accepting of each of these "additional" parents that came into my life. However my step mom whom I refer to as "Mom", I have had for like 16 yrs now takes the cake. I remember taking to her immediately. She came into my life when I was 14. This also just so happened to be when I was going to need her the very most. God knows our needs! The next few years for my natural mom (whom I refer to as my Mother) and I became very strained to say the least. My Mom was there to give me spiritual guidance, pray over me, teach me, and love me.
As a Sr in high school I could no longer handle my home life with my mother and step father and moved in with my Dad and my Mom. Through her actions,words and direction I learned so much. I learned to be a strong young woman confident in how God made me, learned the wife's true role, how to parent with love according to God's word, and most of all I learned to be step mom loving my children unconditionally and no different than if I had given birth to them myself.
I knew that God had brought an amazing woman into my life but I had no idea that during that time she was training me to fulfill my destiny.
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