My Stepmother

                        All week I have been trying to figure out what to write about as the event that changed my life forever. I've went from the birth of my kids, to various breakups, to stories of my childhood all the way to adulthood and sitting here still wondering what I should write about it hit me. My step mother, my life changed drastically when my stepmother entered the picture. Most people thing when they hear the word Stepmother of something evil or bad but I was lucky. I have the world's greatest stepmother. She deserves an award for the role she took on of raising my brother and I. My parent's divorced when I was five and my dad shortly after remarried and obtained custody of us. My stepmother always treated us as if we were her own. Every practice, game or play she was there cheering us on. She was so selfless whatever we wanted to do we did. She'd haul all of us and all of our friends to and from sporting events. She would ride the roller coasters with us at theme parks. Most of all though when we had or now when we have a problem she will come running to our side to clean up our bruised knees or elbows or broken hearts. I'll never forget the night that I was crying I couldn't get the baby to sleep and I was having issues with my then boyfriend when she called. It was the middle of the night and she asked what was wrong. I asked her how she knew something was wrong and she just said it's a mother's intuition. I love that about her and now with my own kids I see a lot of who she is coming out in me and I absolutely love it. Most people say they hate that they are becoming like their mother, not I though I would be proud to be half the woman that my stepmother is. She is an amazing woman who deserves everything in the world for raising us to be who we are today.