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    Our Oldest Son

    By admin | Published: July 26, 2011

    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…

    By admin | Published: July 26, 2011

    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?

    By admin | Published: July 4, 2011

    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!!

    By admin | Published: July 2, 2011

    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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    Planning the wedding, Oy!

    By admin | Published: June 29, 2011

    I eloped with my late husband, so I’d never had a wedding before.  I thought it would be nice to have one and it was important to my fiance’ that ours be a union recognized by his church.  We knew this was going to be a special time for us and we wanted the kids […]

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    Involved Step Mom…or not?

    By admin | Published: June 24, 2011

    There are two ways you can go here, assuming a shared custody situation like we have.  Of course if they live with you full time for some reason many of the anxiety producing aspects of being a Step Mom may not apply to you necessarily.  Otherwise, these children are either visitors in your home or […]

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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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