Category: Months
Savvy Ways to Save This Summer!
For blended families, summer may mean more than just summer vacation… bring on the summer custody schedule! For our family, this schedule switches from every other weekend to every other week. Though there is great value in...
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Stay-At-Home-Step-Mom’s Summer Survival Guide
For me, SAHM (Stay-At-Home-Mom) life was the DREAM!! I love kids, love organizing, love...
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The Ultimate Guide to Parenting a Blended Family – Straight from a Father’s Heart
Expectation vs. Reality. I write A LOT about this!! I had always imagined what it would be like to...
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A Message on Father’s Day
Being a Father, to one 3-year-old boy (Aaron) can be a very daunting task to...
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Be willing to Obey
Matthew 1:18-25 (NIV) “This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was...
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Blessings, Not Baggage: How Stepmoms Really Feel About Marrying a Man with Kids
Years ago, amidst one of many uphill battles in our stepfamily life, my husband apologized for all...
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The Ex Anti-Dad Movement Member
Long before I became part of a blended family, my goal was to be a single...
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Vacation – Embrace Time with or without your Children
School’s…out…for summer!! School’s…out…forever! OK OK, so school isn’t out...
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Mother’s Day Martyrdom
This year I celebrated my first Mother’s Day as a “real mom” – you know, the kind of mom...
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Be Kind to Yourself: Gift to A Stepmom
The journey of blended motherhood can be completely overwhelming and utterly beautiful. Somehow...
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When “Mom” Becomes a Dirty Word
I have wanted to be a mom since before I can remember. Seriously. Mothering has been so ingrained...
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Loving the Mother and Wife God Gave Me
My first experience with love was with my mother. Mom was such a loving and self-sacrificing...
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A New Perspective For Mother’s Day: Having a Mary Attitude
Mother’s Day can look completely different in blended families; maybe even a little awkward at times. It’s so easy to allow our thoughts to start drifting and the next thing we know we are comparing our Mother’s Day to someone else’s Mother’s Day. Before long we are feeling defeated and just plain different. We might even feel like it’s not fair
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A Unified Marriage: Things I Never Learned In Marriage Counseling
When parenting and marriage get hard, the days seem extra long. It’s easy to get stuck feeling like those hard moments or days are all the time or every day. We have learned it is important to keep things in perspective. It is important to not let our emotions paint the perspective. I have a hard time showing love to my spouse when we get stuck in this hard cycle of unending days of trial.
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Making Her House My Home: How To
In my teenage years and through college, I had a pretty clear vision for what my first home was going to be. I was imagining a small apartment or a little townhouse, something in a big bustling city with very little square footage. What I was not expecting was a 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom house partially attached to a restaurant in a part of Pennsylvania that I had never visited let alone wanted to live in. Oh, and to make matters worse, it was the house my husband shared with his ex-wife and their children. Talk about an interesting start to marriage and my new family.
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Comforted to Comfort: How To Parent Well, After The Loss of A Spouse
When my first wife died, I was determined to get through it in such a way that I would be able to also help my two children through it. My son was 3 ½ and my daughter was 1 ½ at the time. I knew it was the start of a lifelong journey of learning what to do with our grief.
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