Girls

I had a nice girls day with my daughter yesterday. We both went and got our hair done. It was fun.

My step-daughter, on the other hand, has been really acting up lately. She's expressed that she feels like an outsider in our family. We've tried to do everything we can to include her and make her feel like one of us, but our efforts seem to make her push us away even further. This morning I found some photos in her room. Two of them were photos of the three kids. She's bent the photo so that R and K are on one side and she is on the other. The other photo I found was of the three kids and Hubby. E was in the middle of the shot. She's bent the photo to fold out everyone except herself. I find this very disturbing, but don't know what to do about it. I've tried talking to her and just letting her vent. Just last weekend, we had what I thought was a heart to heart. She didn't call me on Mothers Day. As the third most influential adult in her life, I want so badly to help her but am unable to connect with her. If she want to be part of the family, she had to participate. But maybe that's not what she wants at all. Maybe she just wants me and my two kids to go away.