As I mentioned before, last spring Casey & I took a Smart Stepfamily class through our church, Woodcrest.  We focused on material from the book The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family by Ron L. Deal.  I'm so thankful we took this class, but to be completely transparent, it was not the class we intended to take...

You know, I've never liked the word disappointment. Even when I was a little girl I didn't care for it.  I remember my sister and I joking that it was always better to make our parents "mad" than to hear they were "disappointed" in us.  No ma'am.  Not okay.  To this day the word makes me feel uneasy.  Yet there it was, sitting on my doorstep, staring me in the face, and tasting every bit like vinegar in my mouth. Disappointment.