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Linda shares her blended family experience.

Linda writes about blended family life in the ‘lou. (Part 1)

Within less than four years, my mom found herself the overly sleep-deprived parent of three children. I was the oldest at three and a half. My sister was two years of age and my brother was a newborn.

(Yes, I don’t know what she was thinking either. But she’s a pretty brave woman, wouldn’t you say?)

She managed to get through those crazy years but it didn’t seem to get easier for her. My poor mother must have felt a bit ripped off when my little brother transitioned out of diapers