Sometimes Simply Surviving Counts…
Sometimes you simply survive long enough in life regardless of the subject, that later you realize you are the one who has travelled the road where others seek assistance . We’ve been a step family for over seven years, almost eight. The beginning of our life as a step family was… Continue reading
Post Holidays Wrap Up
The holidays seemed to be a jumble of dashed plans. Our children have a stepmom this year, so we are trying very hard to work with everyone’s family schedule. In years’ past we had split the children to go to their Dad’s by the 23rd or so and then… Continue reading
Entering the Transfer Zone…
Holidays can bring a difficult time for step and blended families. Children who are getting ready to leave for the holidays often get “wound up” for a few days before their exit. The emotions can run from nervousness about the change, to excitement of seeing their other family, to sorrow… Continue reading
What I can do…
So many times as a divorced mom, I was simply not in the ball park financially or otherwise of what my children’s other parents could do. Though I had a position as a teacher, I also had their father’s debts, no child support, and responsibility for our household….
What… Continue reading
And one moves away…
Our oldest son, my stepson, has at twenty, decided to move to another state to be near his natural mother. This is a big step for him, it meant transferring his full time job, most likely not returning to college this spring, and changing his environment completely. A hundred… Continue reading
Sharing Families
Sharing children sometimes sharing illnesses. It rarely fails that if our children go for more than a day to their other family’s home in another state that they will come home and within a day be ill. They run so hard while they are gone, bed times are thrown to… Continue reading
The Berrys
