A year of The Butler Bunch

Yup you read that right, Jason and I have officially put up with each other for a year. Despite all of the hard things we went through some how we made it. I still remember the moment of meeting that loser like it was yesterday. This really handsome guy came through my line with four kids, literally the first thing I did was check his left hand. There was no ring so I was good to go. His kids were a hot mess, they were fighting and crying he was clearly embarrassed and losing his mind. Having kids I knew exactly what to do. Bribe them. With stickers, but still. I looked at them all and told them we were going to play a game they listened so carefully and closely I've never actually seen kids listened so intently before it was kind of interesting. I told them it was the quiet game and they had to whisper to win and if they got a sticker they were a winner. They went silent. No one talked. He looked at me and asked if I had kids, I said yes. He then signed up for a store card and I needed his address, I realized we lived across the street from each other-which apparently he already knew-he then slipped his number into my hand and told me to text him. After a lot of peer pressure and my sister texting him for me we quickly became friends, then it turned into more. Neither of us wanted a relationship so neither of us admitted to dating. Literally when people would ask if we were dating we'd say "No, we're just hanging out raising our kids together and we go to the movies sometimes and out to dinner" then someone pointed out that's literally what dating is. Yea. We were in a relationship for about five months before we told anyone, we didn't want anyone judging the fact we both jumped into a relationship so quickly. His wife had passed away over a month before, my ex hurt me so badly I cried into a bowl of ice cream for a week. It was bad, but we realized this wasn't a rebound for either of us. It was real. Not only were we in love with each other, our kids love each other. My daughter, Brooke, pretty much hates every girl her age. I don't know why, but she does. She's perfectly fine with boys, but girls not so much. Except Jason's girls, she couldn't get enough of them. She wanted them around all the time, if for some reason they aren't home she walks around really sad asking where they are. Our kids are literally best friends and that has made blending this family so much easier. Our kids also luckily love each of us, my kids look up to him so much. Hunter pretty much made it sound like he walks on water when we first started hanging out, he would talk him up so much! I don't know how we got so lucky in this situation, but we did. Thank you God for sending this man and his four crazy kids to me. I couldn't be happier.