Hey Friends and welcome to my blog, Designing your Dream life through Motherhood!

I’m Gina Nichols and I am a mother of 4 kids, 2 stepkids, and 3 that I love like my own. I also have two grandsons, one from my daughter and one from my stepdaughter!  I have a big beautiful blended family that, to be honest, hasn’t always blended very well.  

It all started in 1987.  I moved to Colorado Springs, CO after graduating from the University of Colorado in Boulder.  I met my first husband shortly after I arrived in the Springs. He was in the army and honestly, really was not ready to get married.  I felt such pressure to be married because it seemed like it was expected.  We got married in a big beautiful ceremony and the marriage lasted all of six months.  Failure number one in the books.  I was so ashamed that I was divorced already.  I want to state the obvious here, I do not believe anyone goes into a marriage thinking it will end in divorce.  I certainly didn’t, but it happened. This is when my “guilt check box” was created.

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