So I am just sorta reveling in our post wedding "bliss". It's gotten quiet around here after a month of graduation company and then wedding company, all of which I had to serve hand and foot - plus get my own wedding together and get married. Last month was probably one of the most stressful in my entire life - but also a very happy month. I am so happy to be married! All the kids seem happy we're married too - i think.

However, for the first time in 3 years ss15 made a comment to me a couple days ago that I reminded him of his terrible mother. I got back to work full time after several months of part time work and so I was telling the boys they have to pitch in around here and do chores and when I ask for them to be done I expect to come home to them being done. He said i reminded him of when his mother used to yell at him, but not quite as bad. It shocked me b/c he's never compared me to her before. I'm not sure if now he just thinks of me more as a mother figure now that his dad and I are married, or if maybe now that we're married I am more demanding and motherly. Or if it's all just the perfect storm of getting married, and working full time and being overwhelmed with household duties/pets.