Tag: stepmother

• My kids make me feel 16 feet tall

  

  Thinking about my own mothering moments makes me feel 16 feet tall at times. But today, my thoughts are with my friend Kaylen, who is celebrating her first Mother’s Day. She came into motherhood the hard way — not through nine months of anticipation and body oddities followed by “Labor Day,” but merely by falling […]

  Sara

  May 13, 2018

  character, Humor, Mother’s Day, parenting

  blended family, mother, Mother’s Day, parenting, personal growth, stepmother

• Dancing with my son…

  

  I dreaded the dance. I saw it as an awkward mother-son performance in front of a room of spectators, but of course I said yes when my son asked me. I had grown up attending weddings of friends and family, but I think I can count only two — my daughter’s wedding and one other — […]

  Sara

  July 29, 2015

  family, life, memories, parenting

  dancing, mother-son dance, second mother, stepmother, wedding reception