Fairytales & step-moms

So, I am a step-mom .... you know the "evil one" you read about all the time in fairytales.


I really feel fairytales make a lot of stuff sound twisted - I mean after all perhaps step-moms, wolves and giants aren't so bad? Who wrote this stuff anyhow? Hardly ever does life ever happen the way they sound - I just read a story this past week like that - a guy in New York fell in love with a girl across the tracks and created a website to find her and he did but now they have seperated: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080729/od_nm/subway_dc I do suppose, that is why they are called FAIRYTALES.


I do feel step-parents do have a bad rap though - I love my step-kids! I will always say I am a family of 6 with 4 kids - no exclusions, no exceptions; this is how we are. In fact at my last high school reunion I won an award - out of all the attendees there I received an award for having the most kids -- my husbands comment was we didn't need to recieve that again.... hardy, har, har :)

Step-parenting has it ups and downs, just like any parenting does.... there's just a lot more people involved.
The greatest gift at the end of the day though is looking into those beautiful blue eyes and hearing them say "I love you"....... then I look into a mirror and chant "mirror, mirror on the wall who's the fairest in the land..." hardy, har, har :)

Any other step-parents out there??