When You Wonder If You Are Enough
Quietly I make my way to the couch, sinking deep into its soft cushions. Pulling my feet up and behind me, I drag the old quilt over my legs, and I sip on coffee black as the night. This is my thinking time, my time to wrestle through all of the thoughts that run...
How To Be A Real Live Family
We are a family with a history, some wonderful and some not so wonderful. We are a stepfamily trying to become a real family. Sometimes I can identify with Pinocchio wanting to be a real live boy, because I want – we want, to be a real live family. Sometimes we do...
Dealing with Suppertime Stress ~Stepfamily Tuesday
Suppertime stress is a time for me at the end of the day, when life gets a little crazy. Before we became a stepfamily, I was considered a reasonably good cook by my children, but these new children, they do not like much of what I cook at all. Everything I serve...
Window Seat Above the Storm
I sit exhausted in the window seat of the plane. Just sit there as the stewardess explains for the billionth time how a safety belt buckles and opens. I am staring mindlessly out of the window, watching luggage carts speed past on the tarmac. Allume 2012 has...
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