My wife (bride of 18 mos.) can’t have children. When we dated she used to sometimes get emotional about the fact that she would never have kids of her own. That of course changed when she married my boys and me. I have three boys, 6, 8 & 10.
My anxiety over whether there would be difficulties proved unfounded. They get along famously. She’s normally there to help them with homework, and to fix their afternoon snacks after school; my job is the homework checker. They love her as much as I do.
Anyway, last night after our reading, the boys went to brush their teeth and get ready for bed. The six year old comes back out and says "Mom look” He’s holding his mouth wide open, and you can see that a new tooth is coming in under one of his baby teeth. Naomi hugged him and told him he’s "going to be a big boy now” and sends him back to get ready for bed.
I looked up at my Naomi because of something I noticed in her voice saw that she was smiling. There was a tear trickling down her cheek. It was really sweet. Sometimes I guess I take parenthood for granted, it’s nice to see a different perspective.
Man, what a sweet story. That brought back so many memories of my stepson. We’ve been together since he was 18 months, he’s now 18 years, and even though we’ve had our differences, as any family does, there was always that love and respect for each other. I feel sorry for the families that can’t experience that. Bless all of you, and best of luck. BTW, isn’t an 18 month old bride kinda young?
Will do. You know it’s kinda strange. We never tried to get the boys to call her Mom or Stepmom. But they’ve all started doing it in the last couple of months. Well except the 10 y/o who’s recently taken to calling me Poppums and Naomi Mommums.
Weedeater asked?
Yeah but you gotta gettum young sos you can train em right
More or less. I wanted to move but the judge wants to give the Mom a chance to redeem herself, so I’ve been ordered to stay in California. Surprisingly she’s been pretty nice of late and gasp sent Naomi a Mothers Day card this year.
I wish she’d try to see the boys more often though. We’ve agreed that her Aunt can serve as a nuetral location for visitation, but she doesn’t follow through regularly. I hate to see the boys anguish when she cancels at the last minute.
