Rather than use my name, my signature line in emails to my youngest step daughter most often reads, with Love from Your Wicked Step Mom. She’s recently started referring to me as The Evil One.

Today is my stepdaughter’s 21st birthday.
I’d love to tell you all sorts of things about her but I don’t know where to begin. I suppose I could start with how smart, articulate and emotionally intelligent she is. I could tell you she’s drop-dead gorgeous and already she’s a seasoned world traveler. I could tell you [...]

When I was 23 and met my husband, he had an eight-year-old daughter and an 11-year-old son and I had a ready-made family. The only problem…the children already had a mother.
Life as a step mom is tough, really tough, and it should be.
If I had known at 23 what I now know, I would have [...]