Every Mother’s Day, happiness and gratitude are always present as you thank mothers for their unconditional love. In light of one million remarriages taking place in the U.S. annually and 65% of remarriages including children, step-motherhood can be a mixed blessing. Sometimes it is challenging, frustrating, and stressful. Other times it’s full of cherished memories. But what about stepmothers? Stepmoms are indeed mothers too and 14 million stepmoms in the U.S. would like to be remembered and deserve to be honored on Mother’s Day as well.

Journal for Stepmoms by Paula Bisacre, http://www.RemarriageWorks.com

The Mother’s Day celebration is not exclusive to young mothers only. In fact, grandmother’s should also have the spotlight during Mother’s Day since they are mothers too after all. Let’s take the opportunity this Mother’s Day to celebrate not only mothers, but grandmothers as well. And there is no better way to show our appreciation to our grandmothers than by putting our feelings into words and expressing them in front of our grandmas too.

Deborah Zupancic’s Book to her mother is in poetry: “You’re Going to be a Grandma!”

I love movies! I personally love romantic comedies. I prefer a heroine who is intelligent and strong-willed and who prefers listening to her brains than to her heart but in the end  still ends up head over heals crazily in love with a man! In the back of my mind, I  wish that the same thing would happen to me and that I would be the beautiful heroine looking for love and adventure and finally realizing who the right guy is for her. If you are thinking that I am stuck in my made up fantasy then you are wrong! This is my life after all and movies are mere imitations of life so if it is possible in the movies then it is more than possible in real life!

Author Amy Beth O’Brien believes in the same idea. According to her, you can lose yourself in the story and live vicariously through the main character and you can live that life too.

Stuck with Mr. Wrong? Ten Steps to Starring in your own Life Story

PUBLISHED May 21, 2010

Shame On Me…I Thought You Were My Friend by Gabbriella Conte is the story of one woman’s journey of navigating through the complexities of divorce and the discoveries of self awareness. Claiming to be neither a how -to nor a self help book, it is instead an honest look at a woman’s struggle from the pain of her past to her victorious emergence into her new life. It is a good read for anyone, not just those struggling through divorce.(review by Christine Scalise)

Gabbriella Conte is the pseudo name Kathleen Contenta has chosen for her written works. Born and raised in a small town in Western Pennsylvania where her father was an ex-marine who fought in Iwo Jimo, turned police officer then retired into the sherrif’s department. Her mother was a strong Christian woman who gave Kathleen her strong Christian roots.

Marrying the love of her life at a young age and giving her life to Christ 33 years ago when her son was born, she tried to make her home a happy environment for her husband and son. Everything she tried backfired. So after nearly 28 years of marriage she left an unfaithful and abusive situation and started a journey into life to find herself. The woman she had lost in the last 3 decades of her life. During this time she learned that she could be so much more than a stay at home wife. Not that it was a bad thing to be a stay at home wife, but she learned she had hidden talents which never would have emerged had she stayed  in the marriage. After leaving her husband she dated him for 2-1/2 years in which she was considering moving home…that is until she caught him cheating on her once more. One time too many for her, as this had happened several times before.

During the months after  filing for divorce she still remained his friend and they became very good friends for the next several years. In total they were good friends for over 12 years after her leaving…but he changed that in the blink of an eye…leaving her & their son out of his life with out explanation to her & just a bit of explanation to their son. What once was a healthy divorce now became something that her son & her would never quite understand why it had to be that way when the past with the 3 of them had grown to be healthy in the midst of divorce.

Had this not happened there would be no book….for that she is forever grateful…life does go on, perhaps not the way we thought it would, but perhaps for the best. We might not see it at the time, but after looking back sometimes we can see that all along God may have had something much more in store for us.

Some stories do end….just not always the way we might have hoped. It is her story of love, hope, faith, family & most of all forgiveness. For if there is no forgiveness in your life bitterness can set in and you will never be able to move on a live your life freely…free to be you. She lives by her motto…Live to Love & Love to Live!

As society changes, our views also change. Before, sex should only happen between married couples. It was viewed as sacred and should only be performed by a man and a woman who promised to God that they would love each other until death. Now,  sex tends to no longer be viewed as such. Although some people still reserve their virginity until wedlock, more and more people don’t think that it’s necessary to be married before they have sex.

Even though some women use contraceptives, there are still many females who end up pregnant out of wedlock. And with the empowerment of the female gender, women are now choosing to be single parents rather than to get married and then just end up in divorce. Being a single parent is now normal in our society. However, in some cultures, single parents are still mocked and are talked about negatively.

If you are a single parent, you may find the controversial book, The Single Woman’s Guide to a Happy Pregnancy, helpful in dealing with difficulties concerned with being pregnant whilst still being single.

The Single Woman’s Guide to a Happy Pregnancy, is for sale online at Amazon.