Yes, this happened to me a few times, and it is always uncomfortable for me. SS used to get really uncomfortable and defensive too, when he was younger and would say, "that's not my mommy!!", lol, if only he knew at the time I wish I could say "that's not my stepson!!!"

Thetis, that has happened so many times I lost count. Whenever I would go somewhere with BF & skids (now SD15 & SS12) over the 6 years we've been together, there would be those moments where someone would innocently assume that skids were mine as well. For example, it usually happens when we're all at a restaurant & the waitress is taking everyone's food order - she would take the kids' orders first, and then say "...and what would Mom like to eat today?" or something innocent like that.

Yes, it was a bit awkward & uncomfortable towards the beginning of our relationship (we have no biokids together), but I must say that it always made everyone laugh & the kids usually wouldn't say anything. A couple of times, when SS12 was younger (say b/w 7-10), he'd say "she's NOT my Mom" in a little nasty huff. I had a quick talk with him at home and explained to him that "these people don't know us, so they aren't trying to say mean things to you, they just INNOCENTLY assume that I'm your Mom because there's a grown-up man & a grown-up woman with 2 kids, they don't know that I'm not your Mom, so don't get mad at them" - and now he's OK and since he's a little older now, he understands more.

SM27 - lol!! I wish I could've said that back then, too! "Trust me, my kids would NEVER act as rude, spoiled and entitled as THESE kids are". But I always bit my lip & never did. There's my angel halo coming out again...lol.

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When my bf and I take all of our kids out people get so confused! The kids all kind of look alike as it is, and we have 2 6 year olds, an 8 year old and 2 9 year olds between us. Its actually kind of amusing watching people do simultanious math and "whose kid is whose?" In their head? The cashier at walmart actually came out and asked me once but she thought all wrong, she thought bf's girls looked like me and the boys were like him..

"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." Ziggy

that is funny lela! I havent really had this happen yet, as we only been getting sd6 now for a few months since the CO. ( long story, went several months w/o contact because of BM ) and I took her to Build A Bear workshop and she was shy so she kept burying her face into my side everytime one of the workers asked her a question so I answered for her and the workers smiled and said she was cute! If anyone mistaked her my child, I probably wouldnt correct them, like if it was at the grocery store or something, unless SD threw a hissyfit saying I wasnt her mom, but she hasnt done that yet. it will probably make me sad if she does, how she says it i guess! oh well nothing I can do if she does.

This happens with me and my family all the time. My mom is blonde with green eyes, my step dad is a dark italian man. So I am not as white as my mom because my dad is italian too. My little brother is about as dark as my step day, my other brother is white white white!!!! and my littlest brother is in the middle. We don't look like a blended family AT ALL!

My step brother looks like my mom, My half brother looks like my step day and me and the baby look like both of them. Its pretty great!

AND THEN My SO is chilian so he's pretty dark too, his daughter is light skinned, and honestly, she looks more like me then her mom or her dad... So people think she's mine and SO's together.

****There are 3 sides to every story. Yours, mine, and the truth.**** -THE WIFE