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Filed under Communication, Divorce, Lovely Man, Me, Random, Remarriage, Stepfamily Life, The Ex, What I Wish I'd Known
Just asking
Does anyone else find it really, really difficult when your partner wants you to look through photos of his kids as babies that were taken when his first family was intact? Mixed in are inevitably photos of the kids’ mum, … Continue reading
Filed under Communication, Family, Kids, Lovely Man, Random, Stepfamily Life, The Ex
Life listing for stepmothers
For people who haven’t encountered the term, life listing is, predictably enough, the process of writing down the goals you wish to experience or achieve over the course of your life. A different perspective on it might be to ask … Continue reading
Filed under Me, Random, Resources, Stepfamily Life, Travel
Search string #53861
I do get a giggle or twenty from the search strings that pop up in my WordPress statistics from time to time. Lately I’ve seen the usual sorts of stuff: step mum of the year, stepmother disengage toaster – presumably … Continue reading
Filed under Random, The Search String Diaries, Writing
Under the surface
On our overseas trip earlier this year, the Lovely Man and I met up with some friends, a couple who’ve been together about the same length of time as us, F & G. Like us, they are a few years … Continue reading
Filed under Counselling, Random, Stepfamily Life, Travel
Star-crossed lovers?
One night during our recent Easter holiday with the Boys at my parents’ beach shack, the Lovely Man decided it would be fun to take them out for a traditional country-town Chinese meal, complete with lurid plum sauce and deep-fried … Continue reading
Filed under Family, Food, Kids, Random, Stepfamily Life
Stepfamily one-liners
Inspired by The Smirking Cat, I’ve been reflecting again about the shirty things people say over-and-over to stepparents (and separated parents). When members of The Great Ignorant spit these babies out, I’m generally too befuddled and irritated to come up … Continue reading
Filed under Communication, Random, Stepfamily Life
There’s an app for that – iPhone applications for stepmothers
Ok, perhaps I’m being a trifle silly and self-indulgent with this post. But a bit of frippery is good in the middle of the week, and silly is sometimes surprisingly sustaining. And for me my iPhone is more than a … Continue reading
Another search string…
…. that showed up on my Google stats, included here just for interest’s sake. stepmother fattening guy I’m drawn to question whether a vengeful searcher looking for a guy who can fatten his or her stepmother? Or is it, perhaps, … Continue reading
The Bane….
…of my existence isn’t the stepboys. Or their Mum, either. As some of you may remember, the Lovely Man and I rent a house in the city where the boys live with their mum. Our house in our city: well … Continue reading
Filed under About Us, Random, Stepfamily Life, Travel
