I’ve heard from at least three different people in the last week that being a step-parent is hard. I think being a parent is hard. I think being a kid with four parents and two homes is hard. I really don’t think being a stepmom is that much harder than being a mom. (Once in […]
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I was driving home from the airport last night when I got a call from Frank saying ‘Come to the softball field! I forgot the diaper bag!’ I was driving along all annoyed that it was eight o’clock at night and Caleb hadn’t had dinner when I started remembering some of the good times I
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My cousin Kelsi is in the Peace Corps and people have been giving her a hard time that she’s got it easy. She’s really been enjoying the Domican Republic and writing some great stories about the country and the people there. Having been in third world countries and a lot of Carribean countries, I don’t
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I just read a very thought provoking article, Why Having More No Longer Makes Us Happy by Bill McKibben. The author argues that pursuing more wealth worked well in the past when we didn’t have much material wealth but now that we are a relatively wealthy nation, pursuing more and more wealth is making us
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Remember what I said about getting behind children in line in security? Well, I was wrong. On our way to the British Virgin Islands last week our six year old, Jacob, caught the attention of the TSA security agents. In his Scooby Doo backpack he was carrying, in addition to the normal treasures, a metal box
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In my last post I said we need new vocabulary for in vitro kids for: my mom that carried me for 9 months my mom who donated an egg my dad who donated sperm etc Well, we also need new vocabulary terms for all the new extended families out there: my husband’s ex (how are
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