When Your Daughter Thinks You’ve Moved to Mars

At one time we lived on planet earth, according to my eleven-year-old daughter, Ainsleigh. Then I got married in June of 2014, and she said that we had moved to Mars. On earth, Ainsleigh could mostly eat what she wanted, stay up as late as she wanted and pretty much do what she wanted…all of the time. For the first ten years of Ainsleigh’s life, I was a single mother who worked full time as a high school English teacher. And what they say about teachers is true. We are way under paid and always over-worked. So, Ainsleigh got to …

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Encouragement for Stepmoms

Let’s face it! Being a stepmom can be hard, especially when you are a new at it.  I always said that I wanted three children. Well, last year God gave me a husband whose children’s mother had passed away when they were young. I now have a daughter-eighteen and a son-twenty. I already had a ten-year-old of my own, so that gave us three children all together. God answered my life-long dream of having three kids in a way that I would never have imagined or expected. I thought I’d been a pretty good mom to my daughter, so I figured I would have the stepmom thing down too. I was wrong! Way …

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