I bet you thought this post was going to be money related. No, it’s going to be the bank of life Many moons ago, I had the pleasure of working briefly at a car dealership as a PR Rep. I went through a training course on lots of stuff but one of them was “the life bank”. Apparently when salesmen ...
I can’t have anything! Why can’t I have anything?!?!? Oh goodness, I sound like my mom! I am a middle child. I have a sister 5 years older and one 5 years younger. Growing up we learned if we wanted something for ourselves to either claim it or hide it. Of course, hiding it was the best option. Even my ...
Depending on your situation, you may have moved into the Nacho Kids’ house with their Biological Mother or Biological Father, or they may have moved into your house. Personally, I believe this has a great impact on the issues you may have and your reaction to them. This will be discussed in detail in a later blog. Anyway,… I guess ...
I have found good things about being a NachoMom!!! There are several positives to being a NachoMom (stepmom) or NachoDad (stepdad) I know several of you are thinking, yeah right or rolling your eyes. For example the other day NachoKid4 made a comment about not wanting to go to school. My response, being the wonderful NachoMom I am, was “You ...
What In The World? I recall reading something in a book while researching stepfamilies before we got married… It shocked me, and I thought it was ridiculous. I read it takes approximately 8 years for a blended family to “blend”… I thought to myself, “yeah, yeah… we can do this in like 2! We have researched the best ways to ...
One thing I have learned as a mom and a NachoMom is every day has to be a clean slate. Everyone in the new Nacho family will have their struggles and feelings will get hurt but those feelings cannot be at the forefront of your thought process. If you normally fix the NachoKids drink at dinner, don’t stop doing it. ...
Being a stepfamily has many great and positive characteristics. It also comes with a difficult and very different set of challenges. I’ve taken the liberty of listing my Top 5 Good & Bad things about my experience in a stepfamily. Top 5 Good: 1 – More people to love 2 – Allows my son to be a brother ...
So, if these are NachoKids, does that mean you shouldn’t know what’s going on with them? For example, should I be informed of the kids’ school grades?… Should I be informed of their “plans” while they are with us that week?… Should I be informed if the NachoKids have issues with me?… Should I be informed if meetings are held ...
We try as a family to eat dinner together. Unless we are eating spaghetti and I don’t cope well with slurping 🙂 We take this time to usually cut up about things, nothing serious. A counselor told us to have weekly family meetings. We haven’t been able to maintain the weekly part but we have had family meetings. But there ...
My son and my Nacho Kids are blessed with a lot of toys/things at our house. However, in our home, there seems to be an issue in how things are viewed by those involved when it involves gifts or what I call “special outings” or vacations take place. My husband and I are both conscious of our spending. So for ...
Throughout our journey, we quickly discovered my expectations were a lot higher for children than these children previously had. Here we go with the “When I was growing up” story… I had responsibilities from the ripe age of birth it seems. As a latch key kid and each day I was to come home from school, do my homework, ...
Before we were married, we thoroughly researched “blended” families. We were both bringing in children from a previous relationship and did not want to be naïve regarding the complexity of this. We had also heard several horror stories and wanted to learn from the “mistakes” of others. Funny how those “mistakes” are later viewed as “great ideas that failed”. Every ...