:? Seeing as I feel like I am the end of my tether I thought writing everything down may help. I am a step mother to a thirteen year old boy and a fourteen year old girl and have been for five years. I have a twelve year old daughter that lives with myself and husband, while my step children live with their mum two hours away.

We have had our ups and downs over the years but all in all have been a very happily merged family. I met my husbands kids at 8 and 9, we got on brilliantly as did they with my daughter.. one big happy family.