Article: Baggage claim at a family event.(FAMILY)(ON REMARRIAGE)

Byline: Paula Bisacre, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Our ever-bustling household is preparing to celebrate my teenage son's church confirmation, and I'm so looking forward to the wonderful day. Like many remarried friends who have stepfamilies, however, I also have some trepidation about the big event.

I'm hoping this celebration does not include the fireworks that can erupt, especially when bringing together a lot of extended family members in a remarriage situation. I sense that my son, one of millions of children trying to blend into a stepfamily, detects my apprehension, but can't quite understand it. He wonders, with an innocence I rather admire, why we all just ...

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