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    Sports…..what the….

    By admin | Published: June 24, 2011

    Now, I enjoy watching college basketball, I enjoy watching football, baseball and all that.  I’ve even held a golf club in my hand a few times, used to ice skate, but I didn’t grow up playing team sports.  Therefore I was ill equipped to help lead this group of kids who were all on not […]

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    Visitation Schedules…aka “The Arrangement”

    By admin | Published: June 19, 2011

    If you are in a shared custody situation, then you no doubt will have some sort of visitation schedule in place.  Oh man, this takes getting used to.  Everything in your life is about to revolve around that schedule.  I was lucky my C-section timed out right!  Seriously, I mean that! Now in all fairness, […]

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    They’re moving in!!!

    By admin | Published: June 19, 2011

    Once we got engaged we decided that we should go ahead and move into one house after school was out for the summer.  This would allow us to get the kids settled in before school started again in the fall.  Since the house I was living in was bigger, we decided to move them all […]

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    We’re Engaged!! How do we tell the kids?

    By admin | Published: June 18, 2011

    The kids’ Dad proposed to me on a Christmas day.  He had the kids Christmas Eve that year and asked that I come be a part of prepping for Christmas morning and stay that night so I could see them get up to open their gifts.  The girls were pretty little still and had a […]

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    Perspectives of Two Women

    By admin | Published: June 17, 2011

    There’s an old joke which says the Chinese symbol for trouble is two women under the same roof.  While nothing I can find says this character actually exists, we all know that it is a delicate situation to have two females involved in much of anything. The relationship between a birth Mother and the woman […]

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    Things are getting serious..

    By admin | Published: June 3, 2011

    Pretty quickly we realized that our relationship was getting serious.  At the ages the kids’ Dad and I were, I guess we felt like we didn’t want to go any slower than we did.  It was a lot of change very quickly for the children though.  All of a sudden there was someone else to […]

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    The kids’ Mother…aka The ex

    By admin | Published: June 3, 2011

    Your guy’s relationship with his ex-wife will either be ok or it won’t.  My husband and his ex-wife have had ups and downs but time is healing things.  I have now been in this family for over 5 years and I can say it’s a lot smoother than it had been.  This is probably one […]

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    Not in front of the kids!!!

    By admin | Published: May 27, 2011

    People feel different ways about public displays of affection.  Some people are comfortable with it, some are not.  I think most of us are fine with it as long as it isn’t overboard.  We’ve all been out and in the presence of a couple of people who are just oblivious to the fact that anyone […]

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    The importance of Entering the Family well

    By admin | Published: May 27, 2011

    So you’ve met the kids but there is probably more to his family.  In my case, there was the kids’ Mother of course, but also his parents, his siblings, her parents, not to mention Godparents and a host of friends. I knew it was very important to my overall success with this family that I […]

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    Trying new things…fitting into each others lives

    By admin | Published: May 24, 2011

    We all had things to teach each other.  For example, aside from stepping into a divorce complete with children, a visitation schedule, adapting to quickly putting children’s needs above my own,  they also came with three, yes three dogs and 2 cats.  They are Catholic and attended Church functions regularly.  Their lives were driven by […]

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