stepmama metamorphoses

the end

2012-01-10T10:43:00.001-05:00

Hey Stepmamas! Happy New Year! I hope you all survived blended family holiday madness. We scraped by with a bit of fun, lots of cookies, and plenty of family time. It's been an interesting stretch. And I've noticed lots of moments I wanted to write about here. Buttercup is about to turn 14, in a few weeks, and is ever the teenage princess. I believe there is a new boy on the horizon, but

metamorphosis

2011-12-05T11:54:00.007-05:00

When I first discovered the stepmom bloggy internet world, many years ago, I stumbled across No One's the Bitch blog, written by Jennifer and Carol. They were mom and stepmom (still are) and had somehow maneuvered past all the competition crap to find a way to peacefully parent children they both loved, and who lived in both of their houses. They were like goddesses to me, and while I dreamed

bonus round

2011-12-01T12:20:00.000-05:00

One day this week I stopped over to my mom's house and brought her a half gallon of milk she had requested. I was already at the store, and it cost all of 1.98$ or something. When I got to my mom's house, she started digging into her purse to find her wallet. I insisted she stop, it was 2 bucks, she hardly needed to pay me back for that. She always tries to insist on silly things like this,

back off

2011-11-28T08:00:00.001-05:00

I am having a most interesting experience. And I wonder what I am supposed to do with this. The background... The King runs his own business. He started many years ago with one partner- we'll call her K. She and the King have struggled, and worked hard, added three other lesser partners, and built their contracting business up from the ground. They do green building and eco friendly