SD 7 and I didn't have an easy start and still face ups and downs in our family.Lately things became tougher since I was talked into accepting one week on and one week off, so I faced a few challenges to cope with things due to this.
In the last weeks though it seemed to all get a bit easier since SO really tries hard to support me/us.
Anyway this Mothersday, SD 7 insisted on buying me stuff from school and also wrote me two cards where she refers to me as MUM, which makes me kind of happy but at the same time gives me a funny feeling.
The whole Mum thing I don't now how to handle this , but there was no way I wanted to bring it up while she was so excited.If she decides though that she wants to call me officially mum all the time now, it would be soooo difficult, because I think she HAS a caring birthmum who is entitled to this name, not me.It would seriously kill me if my own kids would call another person mum .In saying that , her BM encouraged for years and years her daughter to call her SO "dad", which kills my SO....Also I am thinking that it would feel a bit awkward for my own children (8, 12, 16), almost a bit like a betrayal on who they are and mean. But I don't want to be too rigid about it, we will see.Maybe there is a humorous way to deal with it all??
Any thoughts?How do your steppies call you?