Last night DF, the skids, and I sat down to watch the movie "Up" (if you haven't seen it yet, you should!). In the beginning there is a part where the couple is preparing a nursery.

SD5 asks me, "SteppingUuuuup, when are YOU going to have a baby?" I told her we have to get married first. Then she says, "Well when are you gonna get married anyway? I've been waiting FOREVER!" and she rolls her eyes in a sassy way. Then SS2 pipes in with his copying echo, "Yeah! We wait fo' EVA!" and rolls his eyes too. We giggled at them and just said we all have to wait just a little longer.

We didn't have the stepkids on Father's Day weekend, as it wasn't our scheduled weekend. According to DF's stipulation, it does say he is permitted to have his son on Father's Day, however, he informed BM that he and I were out of town (6 hours away) all weekend and he wasn't going to be able to take the skids. We were going to see the skids on the Monday night after Father's Day, so it didn't seem like a big deal.

I KNEW she was going to say something nasty to the kids! I even told DF that she would but he (once again) didn't think so.

I am very interested in first impressions and how people put their own "spin" on things. I was thinking about the beginning of the book, "No One's the Bitch". The step-mother and the mother have completely different stories/memories about the first time they ever met...and the authors use this as their way to get you to see that everyone comes in to a situation with a different pair of eyes.

I wanted to share the story of a friend of mine, as I feel it is truly inspirational and what every blended/step family should be like. I will call my friend "Stacy", her mother "Pam", and her father "John".

Pam and John were high school sweethearts. Shortly after graduation, they found out they were having a baby (Stacy). They tried to make it work but soon realized they were not right for each other - this was when Stacy was one month old.