As it is Christmas maybe put a cracker and a party hat in. (Again, I am assuming your DSS is a child, this would probably not go down so well with an adolescent)!do not feel intimidated about her being older than you - you are not a teenager and she has no basis for looking down at you for being 'a first time Mum in your early thirties' - he is a perfectly sensible age to be a first time Mum Personal