Lest You Think I Am the Evil Step-Mom

...we are sending my step-son somewhere cool this summer, as well. I. will be going to Norway for 5 weeks! He'll travel there with his grandfather to visit my husband's foreign exchange sister. Her son and I. are the same age and hit it off immediately last summer on their family's visit to MN. I. will be there for 2 weeks with his grandpa and will be there alone for the last 3 weeks. We REALLY hope that this is a growing up experience for him and that he can learn to function independently away from his mother. We're so excited that he has this opportunity and hope that he will come to appreciate what this means for him at some point. And we're hopeful that he will be invited back!