So, Maggie has been gone since May 30th and we miss her terribly! The little kids actually went through a stage where she went missing from their prayers. . .but now she is back in them because they are all praying to bring Maggie home! She got to go on the best adventure! She's been in Tulsa with her grandparents, in Branson with her girlfriends, in Lampe with her other grandparents, back to Branson with her great grandmother, to Dallas to see more relatives and she will be home in the morning!!! Maggie is such a doll and I am so thankful that she got this trip, but I don't think I ever want her to leave again. I miss my girl! Tomorrow cannot get here soon enough!
The grief of a stepmom. This post has had so many titles: The Invisible Grief of a Stepmom, The Silent Grief of a Stepmom, The Lonely Grief of a Stepmom. . . the grief of a stepmom is like no other grief because it feels so homeless. My stepson died a few weeks ago. Marc and I have only been married eight months and Mackay, my stepson, lived in NYC and we rarely got to see him (he didn't get to come to the wedding or Cabo and didn't stay with us when he came to town), so I didn't have much of a relationship with him. So there is a weird layer of loosing someone I hardly knew and I feel like that is the layer that makes the most sense to everyone. While the family was mourning, I was the one organizing all of the meals coming in from our wonderful friends and neighbors, I was cleaning up one meal and setting up for the next. I was keeping the house in order and making sure Marc was able to surround himself with the friends and family he needed to make it through the
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