I hate the term "Step-Dad"!
What the Hell does that mean?
I need to step up to the plate because I'm not part of the chemical equation that made them?
They make me step out of my comfort zone because the values they bring to our family is not the ones I do?
I must keep in step with three girls because I totally outnumbered?
Every day, and every night, I thank God for these girls who fill my life with ... CRAZINESS! ... too much estrogen! ... circular arguments! ... underwear everywhere! ... a sink constantly full of dishes! ... boys they like and I hate! ... ridiculous immediate plans ... an utter lack of understanding of finances!
One of them leaves me exhausted, frustrated and tired ... but there are three ... and they like to gang up on me.
Yet ...
Maddie asks my opinion before talking to her Mother and I'm more zoned on giving her the right counsel, I may as well be negotiating world peace.
Laurel wanders in the kitchen, absentmindedly kisses my cheek smiling like snails died in her mouth, asks what I'm having for lunch ... because she slept way past breakfast ... then collapses in the floor to tell me her plans for the day.
Cassidy streaks into the kitchen to get her 9th candy bar of the morning, trying to hide it by moving extremely fast and slamming her hips into my cheek saying "I love you Mike" then disappearing into her room with God knows how much candy as I try to locate which tooth it was she's knocked out of my mouth.
The other day at The Breakfast Club, where Maddie works and I frequent, it's brought up she'd said she needed to ask her parents something ... meaning Sarah and me ... not the contributor to the chemical equation that made her ... and salt water wells in my eyes hearing it.
"Oh My God! Are you crying?" Caroline asks.
I did.
I'm damn proud of it too.
I love my daughters!
I love being ... whatever in the Hell I am to them ... and I'll tell you this ... I ain't a "step" anything!
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Tomorrow at Tybee Bar Church Monty Parks, Eric Johnson, Bob Fulton, David Dunnibier and Micheal!
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