Mazurek...Missouri

Blended families are funny creations. Unless you belong in one, you can't imagine what it's like to co-ordinate your entire life with someone else's family. Dentist appts, PTA meetings, television guidelines, bedtimes, allergies, car seats, and everything else you can imagine are dealt with on a daily basis. And, then there are the biggies for us...insulin, home schooling, holidays, etc.

Here's a great story about living in a blended family.

Hubby and I are currently living in a small garden home that we rented when our house sold last year. It had been on the market for about 2 years, but when it sold we had very little time to pack up and move. We needed a house close to the church and reasonably close to where III was attending school last year. This house is small and we've never really been able to get all the way unpacked this year. There's just not enough room. Lots of our things are in a storage building that we have to visit several times each month to get things out that we need and to put other stuff back up.

Our lease is up in February, and so I looked for a bigger house. We found a house really similar to our old house in a neighborhood called Mazurek. It is a little farther from the church, but is much closer to the hospitals. (Hubby starts a lot of work days at the hospitals visiting folks or sitting with families during surgeries.) All of our stuff will fit in it, so we can give up our storage building.

I was on the phone with III and Rosy's Bio Mom the other night and mentioned that our lease is up in February and we will be moving to Mazurek. I assumed she would know where I was talking about because she and I had talked about that neighborhood before. She was very tired that night, and she thought I said that we were moving to Missouri. Talk about panic!!! There's nothing like thinking that the person you share custody of your children with is about to move to Missouri without really discussing it with you.

Of course, I immediately corrected that misunderstanding and we got a laugh out of it.