Thank you!

When I established this site back in March of this year, I did so as I felt a great need to have a forum that allowed me to write about step-parenting and all of the trials and tribulations that accompany the task. Specifically, I had also hoped to create dialogue around some of the greater challenges we face when joining the parenting world, mid-stream, in the hopes of exchanging ideas and tips for frankly, survival, and naturally greater parenting success.

Once I had established the site, I could not decide how best to get started so it sat dormant until we left Wisconsin and headed west. Upon our departure, a couple of people asked that we blog about our experiences as we set out on our great adventure and the start of a new life together. Not wanting to be inefficient or wasteful and still unsure as to whether I would in fact ever summon the courage to write so publically about my parenting challenges, I decided to use this particular site to track our progress across the country. I was going to stop writing once we arrived but was encouraged to carry on. The site has now really become a wonderful entity and by all accounts has provided many people with an excuse to take a minute out of their busy schedules to check in on us.

However, as I live more into my life as a step-mother, I am finding that the topics that occupy my thoughts are no longer about the day to day but are more about the subtler issues of parenting that I am encountering. I find that I have a greater desire to learn more about how people navigate through certain issues and truly wish to begin doing so. Therefore, I am going to change tracks and cease writing about our daily lives here in the California and shift my focus back to the topic I had originally set out to explore.

I would like to wholeheartedly thank everyone that has read this blog over the past 6 months. Particularly, I would like to thank those that became followers (you can not imagine how excited I was each time the follower count grew) and especially those that made comments and encouraged me to continue writing along the way. I have thoroughly enjoyed sharing our story with you.