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The Slippery Slope of StepMomdom

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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Things that make me crazy!!!!

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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Children Truly are God’s gift

Kids are truly Gods gift I sit here tonight after having listened to the prayer vigil for those poor people in Connecticut and I am moved to turn from the sarcastic to the reverent.  My heart breaks for those little babies and for their families.  While most of my posts highlight the edgy and amusing […]

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The art of Deception

  The art of deception   I know that there are dishonest men in the world and before they were men they were probably dishonest boys.  I remember with our oldest son, maybe a time or two when he was less than truthful.  The rest of the time, he may have been unpleasant but at […]

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Don’t they call this the Cha Cha?

As a reminder we have twins, girls of a divorce who have shuffled back and forth from their Mother’s house to the Father’s house for years.  I had to grow up the same way. I believe our arrangement was easier. We spent all week with my Dad and every weekend with my Mom. Then all […]

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The Girlfriend

After a little thing with a gal or two, and a brief fling with”hickey girl”, our boy took up with a girl who lived not too far from us.  Her parents are local business owners and she was in her Senior year of High School, college bound.  Our boy was trying to make his mind […]

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The team Dinner

One day I was approached by my husband and he said innocently enough  “I volunteered us for hosting a team dinner”. I just looked at him and said, oh ok, what does that mean for us?  I had provided dishes for team dinners in the past but had never hosted one.  He said that hardly […]

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Boyfriends and the six inch rule

Once our girls hit I’d say 14, they became interested in boys in a different way than they had been before.  Understandable, it was time.  Though ever since I’d known them, their Dad had told them they would not do anything with boys till they turned 25, we all knew the time was coming a […]

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The Birthday gift…a family photo

We’ve used the same professional photographer since she took our older son’s high school graduation pictures years ago.   She does very good work, she charges the moon.  Taking my husband’s complaints to heart plus my own sticker shock…once, just once I decided to try to save some money and we took our little one […]

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She’s such a pill!

  One of our girls has suffered headaches as long as I’ve known her, and since she started her period, has complained monthly about difficulties and yet she will play through danged near any sports related injury.  Her sister has never had the headaches or the menstrual issues yet is constantly hurt, real or imagined, […]

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