Much Ado About Nothing

Life has been busy lately, running here and there doing this and that. I have been taking cake decorating classes once a week, and that is actually kind of fun! Although I think I am mostly doing it for the opportunity to eat the icing, hee hee hee.

Father's Day was low key. We had the stepdaughter all weekend, and she gave her dad a couple of crafts and a backcountry map book. She also wrote the word "dad" on the card which was kind of special, since it's the first time she's done that.

We're going camping this weekend, and next weekend, and then to visit my parents the weekend after that, so it is going to be a busy month. The puppy is in Level 2 of his obedience classes on Monday nights, so I feel like right now I am just going through the motions to get everywhere we need to be and get everything done that needs doing. It is annoying, and I would much prefer life to settle down and give me a day to relax. Just one day!

Step Me

Sometimes I sit back and daydream about what I used to think my life would be like as an adult. Back when I was a teenager, I used to spend hours of time thinking about how perfect my life would be once I moved out. I was fiercely independent, and my mother is fiercely stubborn, that's probably all I need to stay.

Never in my daydreaming did I imagine I would date a man with a child, or become a stepmother.

This is probably something that I struggle with the most in my day to day life. The Stepdaughter is a great kid, and she is pretty strong and well adjusted for the less-than-ideal family situation she is stuck in, but on the other hand, she is definitely the biggest strain on my relationship with The Man. Certain events in the beginning of our relationship didn't do anything to ease this strain, some of which has more to do with her mother than with the stepdaughter. Sometimes these, well, negative feelings can be overwhelming and it's hard to stay focused and positive about the situation, and I find myself sitting back and thinking about exactly what role I want to play in this, if any.

But then there are also the positive moments. Like this past weekend, when we're sitting out on the front steps, just her and I, eating chocolate dunkaroos (yum!). I finish mine (she may be the world's slowest eater) and she looks over and says "your dunkaroos are in your tummy and now you will get big and strong" and pats me on the belly.

Or when I tell her that I am her stepmom and she is my stepdaughter and she announces to the back yard that I am going to step her, haha, and proceeds to run around the kiddie pool while I try to step on her feet.

So I guess if my only role in this is to step her, I can probably handle it.

I hate being busy

Well, the last couple of weeks have been a bit busy! Baseball (slow pitch) is in full swing, and I am happy to be playing again this year. So far we have won one, lost one, and tied one, so that is magical really.

We found out a couple weeks ago that the stepdaughter would be relocating to Calgary. This was very sad news - the boyfriend was especially going to miss his daughter, but we were both looking forward to having longer periods of time with her when we did have her. Then when we dropped her off this weekend, he found out that said move is no longer happening. This is good, in that she will be close, but it has some small negatives as well. Overall, life will remain the same, so all that stress and so on for nothing.

We went to see my parents on the Sunshine Coast over Easter, and we took said stepdaughter with us. It was her first time seeing the ocean, going on a ferry, it was a weekend of many firsts. She had a really fun time and is already asking to go back! I will post some pictures of the weekend after I find the stupid cable to download said pictures.

The puppy was 12 weeks old yesterday, and he knows "sit", "come", and "down". He is so precious. The peeing and pooing on the rug, however, is not quite as precious. It's amazing the stink that can come out of something so small!

Other than that, life goes as normal. I really want to put up the pack of 7 assorted sized round mirrors in the guest room, and officially label that room as finished! The bathroom is next up, I am going to be painting it a kind of orange-y colour, I am excited and nervous about that all at once!!!!

Overcoming their fears

The precious puppy has learnt not to be afraid of going down the stairs, and is now doing it all by himself! Such a big boy!

And, the precious stepdaughter has learnt not to be afraid of the puppy, and they were rather cute running around the field together last night.

How my life has changed. :)

Cabbage Patch develops the shits

The stepdaughter came over last night - last weekend I painted her room purple, put up a quote that says "Like star dust on fairies wings, little girls dreams are of magical things" and stencilled fairies around it. I also put up a row of 5 pictures of her with us doing a bunch of things. She finally got to see it last night, and she absolutely loved it! I will have to post some pictures, it really is the cutest little girl's room ever!

Anyways, I had bought her some Cabbage Patch Kid diapers at Walmart a couple of weeks ago, and she finally discovered them last night. She wanted me to show her how to put the diaper on, which I did, and then she went "oh no, she pooed in her diaper!" and ripped it off and put a new one on. Within 2 seconds of putting the new one on, "oh no, she pooed again!". I tell you, that Cabbage Patch Kid had the shits far worse than anyone could ever imagine. She thinks it's funny now, but I'm sure when she has her own kid, changing diapers won't be quite the same. I myself am not looking forward to it, should we ever have a kid of our own, god forbid. :)