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Telling Your Stepchildren About Your First Pregnancy
on May 30, 2007 in stepmom baby stepchild Congratulations you're going to be a mother! You have all of the emotions from excitment to anxiety to confusion of a first time expectant mom. You have one thing that many first time expectant moms don't have: a stepchild.You are a member of the gro...
Eight myths about blended families
on May 29, 2008 in stepparent.divorce stepfamily myth stepchild blended families To a child who does not belong to one, the term stepfamily may suggest Cinderella's troubled family or the eerily perfect Brady Bunch. Actually, neither situation tells the whole story. In a stepf...
Good, bad, it's always changing...
on Mar 9, 2009 in Celebrations (6) blog divorce family gratitude Ikeasaurus kids mother No.ones.the.bitch stepchild stepfamily stepmother Gratitude has been on my mind a lot lately this past week.Two Sundays ago, there was a large fire (1200 acres) out in the nearby town where David and Carol (my ex and the girls' stepmom) recently moved. It was...
Good, bad, it's always changing...
on Mar 9, 2009 in Celebrations (6) blog divorce family gratitude Ikeasaurus kids mother No.ones.the.bitch stepchild stepfamily stepmother Gratitude has been on my mind a lot lately this past week. Two Sundays ago, there was a large fire (1200 acres) out in the nearby town where David and Carol (my ex and the girls' stepmom) recently moved. It...
Take a deep breath and let go
on May 30, 2009 in Help Me! I have a teenager Hiding my hairy stepmom mole custody letting go stepchild stepmom stepson teen It’s been an emotionally exhausting couple of days for me. I thought I had left broken hearts behind with high school, but it turns out your own kids can break your heart worse than any stupid teenage crush. Last summer, just a week before Just...