Memories

Mama J on May 20th, 2009

Over the weekend I blogged about how day trips can give me a new family perspective, and how much I enjoy that fresh approach. I want to apply the same idea to stepparenting.  I often find I am sorely in need of another perspective, sometimes when I least expect it.  This happened a few weeks after my […]

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Mama J on April 22nd, 2009

April 24 comes around every year.  It’s not like Leap Day; it never gets skipped on the calendar.  In two days, my stepchildren will again remember their mother’s birthday.  She would have been 49 this year.  At least two anniversaries each year should not go without recognition in a grieving stepfamily:  The deceased parent’s birth […]

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