1. Christmas- BM wants to split x-mas every yr with one having SS x-mas eve and the other having him x-mas day so we both get to see him on x-mas.

As many of you know- J's asked me to move out.

Ok I'll start.

You Just Might Be a Stepmom if:

You check the calendar thrice before planning a romantic night out with your Hubby

I know this is something I am trying to work on. I will be reprimanding SS for something, and DH will witness and say I am being too hard on SS 16. I realize I am doing it.

I want to THANK everyone who reads this and all replies have been and will be so helpful, keep them coming.

Step Parenting – you might need to step back before you step in something! -I know it is an old post however..

I am so sick of the sinking feeling and the horrible panicky sensations I get every time my SD's name is mentioned, I just have to share it with someone. SD is 16 and lives with BM and SS (13).

I have to say… I checked this site daily to see when it went back up, and when it did- the irony of all that had happened- well.. sucks.

I don't know about the rest of yall, but I was beginning to have withdrawls from Step Talk being down.....

DH is working evening shift-I am home with SS 16 “Zippy”-who does not leave the house, mostly he sits in front of the TV or in his dark, smelly room in front of the computer.

So i left a month ago.......and we are seeing a counselor to try to mend all of the damage.......

Sung to the tune of Cindy Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqf9PuKi63E

I come home in the evening light
I tell DH when he’s gonna live his life right
“OH Stepmom dear, we are the fortunate ones”

I have been investigating some ideas for our retreat. We all go thru different and specific events that rock our world in step parenting and there are several that are common umongst us all. I would like to have some type of constructive discussions about topics that are important and relative to our roles of being stepmoms. I would like our camp to be a place of self reflecting and self healing and have a whole bunch of fun all in one !!

Terrible week. Had relatives in for 3 days so I was cooking and cleaning and entertaining. While still working my 2 jobs. All the while I had this darn tooth ache. Yesterday BM calls and says she cant take care of Sd because she has no gas at her house.

Thank you everyone who replied to my post about losing it ! Man, what a horrible weekend ! I think I'm getting more grey hair!

I let my husband read my post and read the responces. I told him about this site and his responce at the time was that he was glad that I had this site for support. After he read the post and responces he truely had a better understanding and his opinion still holds true.