Category Archives: Christmas
The Onslaught
By last October, Christmas 2009 was shaping up to be fairly horrific. In the end, it was and it wasn’t, I suppose. Like most adventures in stepfamily life, there were good as well as bad bits; in fact the good … Continue reading
Filed under Christmas, Communication, Counselling, Kids, Lovely Man, Me, Stepfamily Life, The Ex
Adventures in Goo
So, I bought Boy B some green Gelli Baff as a Christmas stocking filler… Boy C: B! B! You’ve gotta come in here and see the goo! Me: Is everyone decent? (Knowing that Boy A and, increasingly, Boy B can be … Continue reading
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Isn’t it funny….
Why blogging about your stepfamily is harder when you’re actually trying to manage your stepfamily! Continue reading
Filed under Christmas, Kids, Me, Stepfamily Life, Writing
Things I wish I’d known – final instalment: The Kids
Things I wish I’d know about children and my own stepkids before becoming their stepmother. Continue reading
Filed under Christmas, Kids, Stepfamily Life, What I Wish I'd Known
Hallelujah
Asking for grace this Christmas Continue reading
Filed under Christmas, Me, Stepfamily Life, Uncategorized
About those gingerbread moose…
More on the elusive gingerbread moose. Then threatened, now sadly extinct. Continue reading
Battle stations!
Manning the battle stations – pre-Christmas communications with the Boys’ Mum! Continue reading
Filed under Christmas, Communication, Kids, Lovely Man, The Ex, Travel
