We told my 12 yr old SS this past week that I'm pregnant. I was expecting drama like what he expressed 2 years ago at the possibility of a younger sibling. Instead, he was pretty calm and mildly interested in knowing more. He even wanted to look at the sonogram. I thought things were going okay.

I always feel so much more stressed during the summer. My SS12 is usually here from the beginning of June till mid-August. I always look forward to it before he gets here and then find myself frustrated and irritated with him within the first week.

I've never traveled outside of the US (except to southern Ontario) and I really want to go everywhere. This summer I had a bit of a freak out thinking that I'd never get to travel all the places I'd like to go because I'd settled down too soon with a man who has a child. My husband, being wonderful, told me to put our money where my mouth was and to just book whatever trip I want to go on. If it was that important to me then we just needed to do it and to stop making excuses.