This morning we were ready and out the door with time to spare. . . however, when we pulled out of our neighborhood, we saw that it had snowed on the mountains last night!!! So, we dropped off Hays (Maggie had already been at volleyball for two hours) and I headed into the mountains with the littles. It was so much fun! We had the music turned up and we were singing and car-dancing. As we got closer and closer (higher and higher) it was prettier and prettier!!! We really do love living in Colorado and the snow and the views were so worth being two hours late to school! We all threw snow balls (Gabby literally got me right between the eyes) and then we headed back to "real" life! Fun first snow of the 2013-2014 season!!!
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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