Seasons

In a way it feels like summer has been here for months. It’s been 80+ degrees since February or March I think? I’m not sure, all the sun blends together here. It’s now over a hundred every day and surprisingly that feels ok. After a year, we’ve pretty much acclimated I think….as long as there’s air conditioning….and not too much time spent outdoors…if that counts.

The seasons have always represented change for our family. The oldest two girls have always spent more time with their mother but at least we used to have them on the weekends. But with our big move, it is even more pronounced because this summer there are no weekends. They’re gone for a few weeks- and, for the first time, so is Genesee, with her beloved grandparents.

So, this week, we go from being 7 to being 4…for a few weeks. It’s a reset of sorts, we all appreciate each other more upon our reunion in the fall.  Being a blended family is never easy but for the most part we forget about the blended and we are just a family. Times like this we feel it though.

Until the fall my dears, until the fall.

What to do

What do you do when another child says something very hurtful and totally “below the belt” to one of your children? It’s difficult to deal with, maybe complicated because the mother is my friend. She repremanded her, that’s not the issue, but now I don’t even want her kid around, it was just totally mean and uncalled for. I don’t even know how to address it with the child; she knows what she did was wrong and mean and that’s why she did it- just to be mean. I hate when kids are so mean to eachother. 😦