Sitting here watching the movie Stepmom starring Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts and the tears began to fall. I think about my own mom's short battle with cancer and all the experiences I wish she was here to share with me as I figure out this journey called motherhood. Two months and a day after finding out we were pregnant with Kayelle, we received the call that my mother was no longer with us. Just a day earlier my mother and I were on the phone discussing her plans to move into our apartment building so she could be closer to us and help with the baby. Her goal was to be our full-time babysitter and when Kayelle was old enough our home school teacher. Watching Susan and Julia's characters conflict over the relationships each wanted to have with the children reminded me of some of the contention I encountered over the years as a stepmother of six. After eighteen years, I had hoped the pain of those circumstances w...
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