SPOT 7 Experiences and advice from a Step Mom in training

Monthly Archives: July 2011

Stormy Weather and a lesson in Responsibility

It’s storming right now, so I am reminded of something that happened one stormy night a while back, this is a good one.  It has to do with growing up, responsibility and parental endurance. Our eldest son had started working at a pancake house and good for him.  He met there, a girl whose name […]

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The girls…

Ahh the girls, where to begin.  Well let’s start by saying that we have two the same age.  They are twins.  They are not identical; in fact they are as different as night and day.  One of their favorite gags is when in public we introduce them as twins and some poor sap says…Oh, fraternal? […]

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Our Oldest Son

My husband first came into our oldest son’s life when the boy was about 2 1/2 years old, having met, dated and ultimately married his Mother.  The boy’s biological Father lived in the area but was not involved.  So my husband is the only Father this boy ever really had.  After years and years of […]

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Privacy between two homes…

This is something that will rear its ugly head probably pretty early on in your relationship. Kids can’t help it; whether because they like sharing dish and they are kind of gossipy by nature or whether it’s innocent, they are a conduit of information back and forth between their two homes.  Not that anyone necessarily […]

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Sleep overs….really?

Now that I have kids, they come with stuff and they come with friends so I had to get used to their friends coming over.  Not so much our boy, occasionally he’d ask to go to a friend’s house and every now and again he’d have a buddy over.  he guys were easy. All they […]

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The Honeymoon: We’re family now!!

So after a little too much to drink the night before and therefore a bit of a rocky start, the plan was to leave the local B&B where we had spent that first night and hit the road early the next morning.  We were driving to Estes Park Colorado and wanted to get an early […]

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