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Thank you for your support.  I am sure you can also understand how difficult and helpless I feel.  I am one of those mom's that have hot cookies when they come home the house looks perfect and I feel so stressed inside.  My husband tells me to let the little things go but I don't know how to do that.  I just can't do everything for everyone all the time and feel so sad that my own daughter doesn't see how she treats me.  I have always been there for her when I was working and was on the board of directors of her school, involved with every school activity she has been in. She is a dancer and I have never missed a performance of hers and yet she continues to expect more and more from me.  There are days that I just want to scream at the top of my lungs.  I get short tempered with all of them.  I will look for a support group at church but don't know how I'll manage that one now that the kids will be home full time in a few days.  YIKES>>>

Don't be so hard on yourself.  Staying sober is a hard road.  I have watched several of my family members go thru it and lost a brother to drugs.  Please remember that you take one day at a time and that you are doing the best that you can.  Ask God for strength and continue to be the best parent that you can.  Learn to forgive yourself and live by today.

I have been married to a wonderful man for almost five years.  I have a daughter from my previous marriage who is 17 and my husband and I have custody of his two children age 8 and 12.  The two little ones were abandoned by their mother almost 7 years ago and has been in and out of prision etc. I recently quit my job to be a stay at home mom and my challenges are many.  I am trying to be there for everyone, I volunteer at each of their schools, cook, clean, maintain my household finances with little support other than financial from my husband.  The two little ones fight all the time and my nerves are on the edge.  My older daughter things I don't spend enough time and money on her and just told me that I needed to make more of myself.  The past weekend I just wanted to get on a airplane and run away. I'm totally stressed and don't know how I'm going to manage this summer.  I need help on how to deal with this all.  I feel unappreciated and helpless.  My husband and I talk about date nights but they never happen.  He owns his own business and doesn't have much energy for the family when he's home.  I've talked to him about this but he doesn't understand. He thinks that I should be use to everything by now.

I appreciate your support and comments