lead me to a job!!! Yay!!! I'm so so so really really really happy!!! it's only PT, but it's what I wantedfor now. The important part it's with an awesome earth friendly company! There are tins of potential career opportunities and when I'm ready to grow up (I use to own my own business worked all the time about 22 hours a day for 3 years!) -- so when I'm ready for FT again (growing up) I'm in the right place.

Yay for me!!!

I start Monday no cell phones allowed (spa zen), so I will miss you ladies and gents!!

I can't whistle... but I can lick my elbow.

I received an email once that says no one can do it. So like anyone reading this is probably trying to do right now, I tried it and found that I could. It's effortless for me... having something to do with short limbs and an abnormally long tasting mechanism.

It makes me special in a small, goofy, insignificant way.

I have been doing a lot of sitting and reflecting, absorbing and listening more... and talking less. I was reading an excerpt from the Tao of Pooh, and it brought me to a sort of realization.

It seems that lately BM is only ever really interested in having SS with her when she gets to 'play' mommy around other people.

My husband has been divorced twice. He has a 14 year old daughter from his first marriage and a 10 year old son from his second marriage. The first marriage was awful and his daughter now has abandondment issues. The second marriage ended in a sad divorce that probably shouldn't have happened (which makes it very hard to accept that wife #2 is a decent person...I would rather hate her). DH and I have been married for 4 years and living together for 9. Even though the kids treat me like family I don't think they would miss me if I were gone.

I've been absent for a while, lurking here and there with not much to post. DH and I are trying to work out our issues......but I'm still on the fence on if we should stay married. But......I just had to share the latest BM/Skid funny.

So, my fh and I are finally living together (week 2) and just around the time that BM found out about it (and started acting crazy again) she and her boyfriend broke up and he moved out.
I get a text from FH around 10:30pm last night (he works second shift)letting me know that BM is texting him for no reason again.

FH: I just made a funny...rofl
ME: Oh no, what did you do?
FH: I was asked so how's "married life"? and I said....wait for it....wait for it.....how's being ALONE??

:sick: My stepson is 14 years old, and moved in with us last Christmas. He doesn't think he should do what "mom/stepmom" tells him to do. His mom asked him to do things but he will turn and say no and walk off. Well I am not that way.

I have tried being nice, ignoring him, and raising my voice to get my point across. We made chorse and guidelines. He tells me we are not following them at all.

My 2 year old seems to be wanting to potty train, and being this is my first time and my mom doesnt have much advise I thought I would turn to other moms I have made a sticker chart, and try putting him on the potty every twenty minutes but he still manages to wet his underwear (and doesn't really mind or tell me) He instigated potty training and decided he wanted to, he even picked his underwear out. I desperatly need ideas

We are considering pushing back our wedding date, because of money issues. It is scheduled for September 2011. Our baby is due March 2011, so 6 months before that. Right now we are pretty much living paycheck to paycheck, although I've been building up my savings for when the baby comes and should have atleast $1500 by March.

Please help! I need advise from other step parents. Here is quickest version I can give. My dh and i have been married for 12 years. I have been in my step daughters life since she was 3 she is now 15. She is starting to want to do other things and stay with her mother more. Which we understand. My children who are her 1/2 brother and sisters miss her dearly. We ask her if she is coming for the weekend after she has missed 2 already. Her mother and her tell us NO. There is no asking jsut a flat no, i am not comeing.