I asked my stepsons some questions about what its like to be step kids and dealing with visiting us. Here's some of their answers:
"It's awesome to come up here every time, but we miss the family at home and it can be a lot of work to prepare for," Anise said.
Lemongrass was a little less forthcoming, but I'm pretty sure he loves playing with his younger siblings by his reactions when they are around.
The boys also like playing video games with us.
In the past they've also told me that its hard to share rooms and they wish they had their own. There is also the balance of learning how to eat different things than you eat at home on a regular basis.
Though one of the things I personally love about when my stepsons come is when we sit down with their Dad and the four of us play the game Ticket to Ride. For Christmas they gave us an expansion pack where we can move around Alvin the Alien and Dexter the Dinosaur to different cities in order to make it harder on your opponents.
Some other board games we play a lot with the boys are Risk, Monopoly, and Parcheesi. But we go nuts with them playing video games. We are huge Mario fans so we play a lot of Mario Party, Super Smash Brothers, and the various Lego video games.
The overall trick though is to make sure that the boys feel welcomed in our home no matter what and that we spend time with just them, when we can, after the little ones go to bed.
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