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Summer is coming to an end...

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Submitted by newstepmom81 on Tue, 08/10/2010 - 12:36pm

We dropped the kids back off at their mom's yesterday afternoon after their long summer stay with us. We won't see them again for several weeks, it sure is quiet. (Sigh) It feels weird because I'm back to doing the laundry of just two people, only making one bed, fixing dinner for two instead of five and I have no one to give me an excuse to see the newest cartoon movies in 3D...

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Submitted by newstepmom81 on Fri, 08/06/2010 - 3:52pm

When I was little I wanted to grow up and be a teacher who had hair so long it dragged on the ground. I wanted to get married and have two children; one boy and one girl. That was it, specific, to the point and simple.

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Submitted by newstepmom81 on Fri, 08/06/2010 - 11:33am

Ok I am going to take the chance at sounding a little corny, but oh well. I am a 29 year old brand new stepmom with no biological kids of my own. I got the package deal-a husband and 3 kids all at once. We don’t have them full time and this summer has been my first immersion in kids constantly. Wow, eye opener in both good and bad ways. I have been at my wits end ready to just breakdown and run away and I have felt love like never before with “my” kids.

Goodbye Summer...Hello Every Other Weekend...

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Submitted by newstepmom81 on Fri, 08/06/2010 - 11:16am

We have had my husband’s three kids for a majority of the summer (a couple of short trips back to BM house, but mostly here.) This is their last week and today is the last day I have them home with me by myself. At the beginning of the summer I wondered how I would feel when I reached today. I wondered if I would be sad or ready to pack their bags and drop them off. Over the summer I have had my moments when I was ready to give up and send them packing (which I of course didn't do-I was just frustrated.) However on this Friday, August 6th...I am going to miss them.

Over this past year of being a new stepmom I have learned a few things:

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Submitted by newstepmom81 on Thu, 08/05/2010 - 2:01pm

Over this past year of being a new stepmom I have learned a few things:

1. You can’t change other people (I can’t make their biological mom less crazy!)

2. I can’t do everything right, but I can do my best.

3. There are going to be conflicts between myself and my husband on the way to raise the kids and compromise is the solution.

4. Remember kids are just kids and when you go from none to 3 it is hard to keep that in mind sometimes.