A Day in Therapy

Today my step daughters have gone to see a therapist. After the year that they have had, they need it. It was like cutting an open wound to Caty (6 years old.)  How does she even comprehend that her favorite person in the world, her mother, has left her. She can't. She doesn't take comfort when I sit with her tonight, while she cries for her Mom. I'm helpless and can't make things better for her. We provide a safe and loving home, but I have no idea how long this healing process will take. I'm not sure that it will ever end.


I guess I should back up and explain the train wreck that is.......Lucinda remarried a few years ago. She married someone that already has 2 divorces under his belt and 4 kids from the marriages. One child lives in another state and the other three moved last summer. Her new ex decides to move to be with his kids. And after 6 months of court documents and lawyers, Lucinda decides to quit the custody battle she started and just leave the kids. The oldest, 12 already lives with us because "he caused to many problems." But the girls, weren't prepared to see their Mom leave. They assumed that her promises of living their lives elsewhere would come true. 


I wasn't sure I'd be a Mom, let alone a Step Mom.  But I now have a beautiful one year old.   I get to stay home with him and watch him grow.  I can't imagine life any other way.