This past weekend Andy and I headed to Arizona for a wedding with Tiki and Gabby. Meanwhile, my dad came up to snowboard with Hays, Maggie and Dax. We all had a fantastic weekend!!! I think my favorite part of the weekend was cousin time!!! We arrived the first night and met many of my Arizona family for Mexican food! (Why didn't anyone take any pictures?!?) My cousin, Chelsea, and I got to spend some great time together and I am so thankful for that! Tiki and Gabby got to spend the entire weekend with Chelsea's kids and the goodbyes after three days were teary!!! Andy and I headed to a wedding of a dear friend and had so much fun!!!! Then the last day, I turned our trip into a mini 12 hour vacation before we headed back home!
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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