30 Days to a Better Stepfamily – Day 29

Driving through the country back roads I see it, all large, bright and round up above the treetops.  Slowing down, I turn off the headlight to the car for just a moment, and the light of the moon is bright enough to for me to navigate down the road without any extra...

30 Days to a Better Stepfamily – Day 28

Being a step mom is probably more difficult than a birth mom, there are not as many hugs or “I love you”; and, at times, there are none at all.  You work hard and are given little credit or recognition.   I am on the sidelines with some conversations between...

30 Days to a Better Stepfamily – Day 27

These next three blogs will all go together.   Just so you will know. It is the night for the Boy Scouts to celebrate Christmas with a dinner and a few awards.  Doc helps as much as he can with the youngest son’s troop; but, his job is very demanding; and, it is...

30 Days to a Better Stepfamily – Day 20

Rain at last, rain at last, coming down in sheets of gray across the pond, so low, and desperate for water.  Its edges once climbed the retaining wall, but now, dirt edges are exposed and blades of grass green with life, try to fill in its shallow core. The fall, all...

30 Days to a Better Stepfamily – Day 4

Turf wars were raging between my stepdaughter and me. She was determined to be the woman of the house and dictate what would, and would not happen, and I was sure that this would not be the order of our lives.  Knowing that this eight year old ruling the roost would...

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