…and still have time left for just the two of you?

(Posted by Gayle)

What does it take to make a relationship with a significant age gap work.  In a word…

Creativity

“The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.”

Frank Barron

We are halfway through one of our best and most creative vacations yet. We are holed up in French Lick, Indiana having a great time wearing our Extreme Pop & Gigi superhero capes!  We came armed with a suitcase full of Legos, puzzles, books, recipes, and even our Wii. Read the rest of this entry »

Just ask his kids poor little kids – Cinderella and Cinderfella!

(Posted by Gayle)

Sugar plums dancing in one’s head were not the images gyrating in mine when I thought of becoming a step-mother. I played with baby dolls as a child, but not with the intention that they were my step-children.  It is a new millennium. While little girls probably aren’t dreaming of step-parenting another woman’s children, many grown women do dream of it and indeed fall in love not only with him, but with his children.

When Ron and I fell in love, the visions I had related to step-mothers were: Read the rest of this entry »