Hello

[Loving_Wife]

My name is Amy and right now I am the not so Loving_Wife to Michael. We are a blended family with 7 children.

Micah ~

Is the oldest at 17 years old. He graduated from high school at 15 years old and just finished his first year of college .... it's not fun when your kid is smarter than you are! Thankfully we only have one as smart as him

Tori ~

The oldest girl at 16. She has tried our skills as parents. She is also very intelligent.

Taylor and Chase ~

Are twin girls who are 13. They are as different as night is to day. Taylor is the bookworm and Chase is the mother of everything that comes in contact with her.

Ryan ~

Is also a 13 year old girl. She is a animal lover and amazing with them.

Nekolai ~

11 year old boy who has tried my patience like no one else can. Very smart, has ADHD and anger management problems.

Jace ~

10 year old boy. He is our butterfly. He gets that nickname because I was dragging him along on paying bills. I was being impatient with him and hurrying him along when he suddenly stopped, and said, look Mom a butterfly. With utter confidence he looked at me and said "he was worth stopping to look at and not hurry."

Michael and his children were raised Mormon. Myself and my children were not. Michael takes, well used to take (long story and have a post about it) all of the kids to church. My kids took to it like ducks to water.

Although the kids ask continually for me to attend church with them I have as of yet to do so. I have a problem with attending church when I know I'm sinning. There is a very LONG story behind that but that is for another post

Anyway just wanted to introduce myself.

[pam]

Welcome to the site. Sounds like you have your hands full. I have twins as well but boys.

[Loving_Wife]

Yeah I am busy... forgot to add that I am also a full-time student as well as home school the three 13-year-olds. I do have to admit there are days when I wish they went to public school though!

[miztrniceguy]

Church is for sinners. If it were not so they would be empty.

Welcome, and good luck.

[Loving_Wife]

Yeah I know that. It's my own "thing" and a really, really long story as to why I feel that way.

[lydlou]

I find it interresting that when introducing your "blended" family you dont bother mentioning whos kids are whos. Part of me is courious, but i know its none of my beeswax. I hope someday to be able to do thesame. my husband often refers to my son as his own, even though macs real father is still (somewhat) in the picture.

[Loving_Wife]

I don't even think about it. In honesty I think of them as all mine.

But for the curious Micah, Ryan and Jace are my bio children... Tori, Taylor, Chase and Neko are my children from another mother :)

*ETA*

Micah and Tori are 17 months apart. Ryan and the twins are 5 months apart with the twins being older. Neko and Jace are 8 months apart.

Edited January 12, 2010 by Loving_Wife
ages of kids.

[BDRichardson]

I saw "blended" and was curious. I have 4 adopted kids. Hats off. I also have some family in Seattle.

Welcome.

BDR

[Bini]

Welcome to the site.

[bytor2112]

Welcome!!