Did you remember to get mom a card and flowers?  I understand if not, but don't let it happen again...she deserves them already!

Today was Mother's Day but we celebrated yesterday with my parent's and mom's at Champps in Reston.  When I say "celebrated" I mean we all had dinner together.  It was very nice.  I really enjoy when we all hang out together.  We truly are a big family now and it is so great.  My mom loves mom's mom.  My dad enjoys hanging out with mom's dad ("loves" would be a strange word there).

You will see many movies growing up where someone is getting ready to marry someone else and they talk about the joining of the families.  They seem to put a lot of pressure into how the different families will get along.  In real-life, I feel like most of the time the families stay separate and see each other because they are forced to and are very cordial but don't really care about the other side.  Some times families hate each other and never see other. The other handful of times, the two families actually become a family.

I think that is what is happening with our families at the moment.

It started before you came along (so don't take all the credit), but you have already given us a reason to make that bond form more quickly and tighter.  The fact that all of your grandparent's care SOOOOO MUCH about your mom and I helps a bunch.  In the end, they care for your mom and I more than anything else in the world.  When we got married, they immediately began to share that "burden." With you coming into the picture they do more than share us...they are truly joined together.  I am a part of my parents and mom is a part of her's...so by the transitive property...you are just as much a part of my parents as you are to mom's.

OK STOP!!!!

I know..."so by the transitive property" ...is REALLY dorky.  That's just me.  If you are reading this and don't know that about me already...tough!  I think in math and equations like your grandfathers while mom thinks like a girl...like your grandmothers :)

Anyway, my point is that this Mother's Day was the best ever. Mom and I not only celebrated with our mom's. but for the first time ever your mom was about to be a mom and our families enjoyed that together.  I hope that this is the first of many, many, many things we can all share.

I love you and my old and new family!
Dad.