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    • Monthly Archives: February 2013

    Helping my Step-ex and she doesn’t even know it…

    By admin | Published: February 28, 2013

            I make up words sometimes and I was thinking….I have/had Step parents, have step brothers, have been a step daughter, have step children…and when I really think about it, I have a step-ex.  It is a unique relationship for sure, but a relationship none the less.  Like any other relationship it […]

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    Save the last dance…for anyone else but me!

    By admin | Published: February 24, 2013

        Winter formal Junior year.  It started slowly as it usually does. We had several months to prepare and of course it started with the who. Oldest twin lined up something with a friend of hers on the basketball team.  She says he’s not her boyfriend, she says she’s not “interviewing” him, we shall […]

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    Two Degrees of Separation

    By admin | Published: February 22, 2013

      As you know, we have twin teenaged girls.  I don’t know how much you can glean from this piece if you don’t have them.  Perhaps you can understand if you just have two daughters who are close in age.  I am going to talk about the difficulty our daughters are having as they try […]

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    The Power of No!!!

    By admin | Published: February 21, 2013

        I don’t have much recall of our son asking permission to do things till he began driving and seeing girls; no sleep overs, only a rare guest over, didn’t ask for anything much. Anyway not much practice at telling him No.  I think the one or two times we had an opportunity to […]

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    The Slippery Slope of StepMomdom

    By admin | Published: February 20, 2013

    I made that word up of course, StepMomdom. It is one way to refer to your existence after you marry a man with children. It is at once familiar and unfamiliar, fun and frustrating, rewarding and daunting, yet if you play your cards right with a little luck and a lot of effort, it can […]

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    Family…what’s really important

    By admin | Published: February 12, 2013

    Family what’s important Day after Christmas and I got a call this morning that one of my three first cousins, the one next to me in age so the one I knew the longest and I guess was closest to, passed away from a massive heart attack at the age of 51, one year younger […]

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    Things that make me crazy!!!!

    By admin | Published: February 9, 2013

    This will be a free flowing, run-on randomly ordered narrative of things my Step kids do that make me crazy.  It will hopefully be something you can identify with, at least in part, and maybe it will be entertaining at the same time. Selective hearing.  I fail to see how the same children who do […]

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