This is my life in a nutshell. I am a mom...first and foremost. My only bio child is a daughter who is going to be 14 in a few months. I am a wife...finally married my sweet, naive DH in March after dating for almost 10 years. I am a step mom to SD who will also be 14 in a few months and SS who will be 12 next month. Although BD and I spend a lot of time there, we do not live in DH house (too small, skid issues). BD and I have our own house in the next little town with a cat and a dog living with us. Both DH and I work for the local electric company...I have been here for almost 12 years and he has been here almost 28 years. My exH is military-he and his wife live 5 hours away, so we don't deal with eachother regularly...and I never really speak to him anymore, I deal with my daughters SM...who is really wonderful! My DH exW lives minutes away from him and stirs the shit regularly. Their kids are both adopted.

The three kids are all VASTLY different from eachother. The two girls are only days apart, but cut from completely different material. From looks, to hobbies, likes, dislikes, school...they are total opposites! SD is tall, somewhat overweight, dark hair, dark eyes, dark skin (halfwhite/half mexican heritage). BD is more like her dad, average weight, height, with hazel eyes and blondish hair. SD hates school and it reflects in her laziness and grades, BD isn't crazy about school, but applies herself (almost to overkill) and it also reflects in her grades. SD would spend her life in her room watching tv and sleeping, but BD wants to be outside playing. SS and BD are more alike, but still their own people! SD and SS (both adopted) share the same birth mother, but have different birth fathers, but both are half white/half mexican heritage.

DH and I daydream about the day that we have a kid free house that we can run around naked in...hee hee!!!!