step families are the hardest! no way it should be but that is how it is. I have a stepmom I love to pieces but yes my dad's kids come last. like every year her kids get gifts while dads kids get nothing. it has been that way since the mid 70's when they married. my dad will slip around and give me a little money sometimes but still you want to feel she loves you as her child. I too have no living mom.