My Evil Step-Mother Became One of My Favorite People

Mia Hayes
6 min readMay 8, 2022

I thought she was a step-monster until I became a mom myself

Mia Hayes’s family. Photo Credit: Scarlett Heart Photograpy

When I was six, my dad asked me what I wanted for my birthday. “A house of our own,” I told him.

Even though I loved living with my grandfather and my single-father dad needed the help, I dreamed of living in a two-story house with a gabled roof and big porch. My mom wasn’t fully in the…

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Mia Hayes

40-something trying to live several lifetimes at once. Stay-at-home author, mom, and wife.