This is an emotional post for me. This week I want to talk about being a Stepmother and my worse fear. I am late on posting because the events that happened took place on the day I normally would be writing and posting on Friday. It has been a whirlwind of emotions since Thursday afternoon….
Category: Parenting
Co-parenting during the holidays – How to make it work
I love celebrating the holidays with family and when I started dating a man with a child. It was an adjustment period. The first couple of years were rough. It was hard getting into the groove of where and what we were doing for the holidays. In the first couple of years of our relationship…
Hard Life Lessons You Learn After Losing a Parent
The first week of November is the one-week out of the entire year that I hate the most. It’s the one week where I live inside my head and relive all the things that happened that week. That changed my life forever. This is the week that my mother passed away. These are the hard…
Teach kids how to be responsible by creating a chore chart
About a year or so ago, I got fed up with Mikayla always trashing her bedroom when she would come over on the weekends. I would have to tell her to clean it up before she went home. Somehow, someway she would always get out of doing it. I was at my wit’s end and…
The importance of making memories with your kids
Today is a featured guest blog post and I have teamed up with an amazing woman. It is all about The importance of making memories with your kids. It’s crazy how you meet people and create bonds with them over the weirdest things. Although, not many of you know I have been dabbling in blogging…
Creating a relationship with my stepdaughter
This is how I went about creating a relationship with my stepdaughter. I felt really disconnected from my stepdaughter. I wanted to have a relationship with her. Being a parent or even a step-parent in my case is very hard to relate to kids today. Especially, if you are not up to date on the…