John and Hannah Bapties, Author at Better Than Blended

Loving the Mother and Wife God Gave Me

by John and Hannah Bapties | May 14, 2018 | (5) May, Marriage, Prayer

My first experience with love was with my mother. Mom was such a loving and self-sacrificing person. She always made me feel like I was the most important person on the planet. She would help me catch spiders when I was 8. She would come and meet me several times a...

A Unified Marriage: Things I Never Learned In Marriage Counseling

by John and Hannah Bapties | Apr 30, 2018 | (4) April, Blending, Co-Parenting, Marriage

One of the hardest parts of parenting is no day is the same, yet, the days can run into weeks and feel unending. This can weigh heavy on any couple. When parenting and marriage get hard, the days seem extra long. It’s easy to get stuck feeling like those hard moments...

Prayer and Support in the Season of Court

by John and Hannah Bapties | Mar 21, 2018 | (3) March, Custody, Marriage, Prayer

Court and custody, what a challenging experience for any blended family. It is one of the heaviest things we can walk through. To share custody and decisions with someone who often disagrees with you and is difficult to get along with and to have to do this during and...

What Parenting a Teenager has Taught Me as a Stepdad

by John and Hannah Bapties | Feb 12, 2018 | Family, Marriage, Step Children, StepDad

Raising children is a challenge. If you are reading this, you likely are raising children in a blended family. Our family has children at various life stages. We have a 17-month-old who is committed to climbing everything she can and a son who is about to turn three,...

The Importance of Building Family Traditions!

by John and Hannah Bapties | Jan 8, 2018 | Family, Family Traditions, New Year

This past holiday season we have spent some time together communicating what kind of new things we could add to our traditions as a blended family. The very nature of a blended family is that two people have come together to start new. This new union causes a group of...