Family Forum / Parenting / Step Parents / March 2006

My name is Matt, and I have been a step-dad for 1 year now. My fiancee
and I just recently turned 24. My step-daughter (I will call her Mary)
is 6, turning 7 this summer. Our intergration as a family has gone as
smoothly as could be expected for 23/24 year old parents raising a 6

I'm not having any major step issues right now <knocking on wood>. Just
wanted to delurk long enough to let everyone know that my oldest SD has
just been offered a full scholarship to the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County. Her father and I are so very, very proud of her.

Quickie background:
My lady and her husband split up in 1999. She moved from Toronto to
Vancouver. We bumped into each other shortly after that. We knew each
other for a while and eventually moved in togeher. She has 3 daughters

I was a family friend of my fiance and his ex-wife for 11 years.  He
moved out of his former family home, as did I, and we moved in
together.  Our children (my daughter, age 4, and his daughter, age 10)
live in our former residences with their other parents.  We see our

She and I weren't able to get together, since I'm in downtown SF and
she's a bit out of town, but we had a nice talk on the phone.  It's
really good to at least get a voice to go with the written word.
Kitten

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