I have been required by my class to create a blog and, while I was doing so, was barraged with a series of text messages from my boyfriend's daughter that I needed to bring her basketball clothing down to her because she can't possibly walk the 10 minutes home (on this relatively warm, sunny day) to pick them up herself. The last text went something like "If you want me to interrupt my work to haul my cookies down to the school to drop your stuff off you owe me an evening of babysitting". I have not yet received a reply so, either I will see her after school when she comes to pick her stuff up or she will run away to the woods to eat a poison apple or something.
Actually, all joking aside, I have been thinking about writing a play (which, of course, I foresee as a musical!) about life from the perspective of all those fairytale stepmothers we love to hate. I mean... As a second time stepmom (my former marriage consisted of three step children and my current family consists of two) I feel as though I am privy to a lot of inside information on what it is like to be THAT woman.
What if Cinderella's and Snow White's step moms were just misunderstood? And... although she isn't really a step mom, Sleeping Beauty's "issue" was a close relative left off the baptism list, right? Well... What if these ladies weren't as bad as everyone made them out to be?
Folks, I am here to tell you-- it ain't easy parenting someone else's child. AND there is often not a choice about it. You kind of get thrown in together, sink or swim and... let ME tell YOU... no one is throwing you a life raft. In fact, in my experience, the "real" mom is often the one who would gladly help the process of drowning along.
Well, there you go. I am interested in other people's points of view on the whole step parenting thing as it will give me fodder for my play so comment away! :)
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