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Seasonal Transition as a cause of family stress

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Submitted by Old Timer on Sat, 07/03/2010 - 2:28am

I don't know if someone has posted about this, but in case you haven't noticed ST has been under a lot of stress lately. I think we members are reflecting the stress that is happening in many of our families.

Summertime is transition time in step families and almost all of us experience stress just by the change of the calendar and where skids stay. Skids often act up when they come or go from one parent to another. It takes time for them to adjust to a new house EOW. Summertime is the same way - plus the hormones really kick in during summer vacations.

OT - The Wife Retired from Organ Playing

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Submitted by Old Timer on Sun, 06/27/2010 - 6:24pm

This is sort of off the regular topics of Step Talk but my dear wife retired as a church organist today. She is 60 and has been playing the organ in church for about 50 years (fifty years!) I could never stick with anything that long!! She started turning pages for nuns when she was 7. She's played in a lot of churches over the years and probably married and buried over 500-1000 people.