30 Days to a Better Stepfamily –Day 22

The greatest gift you can give a family is grace.  Whether birth or step, family needs an unending supply of grace. Grace cannot stand without love, coming down like beams of light into the heart of one who is to give it away.   It does, it must, come down from heaven...

30 Days to a Better Stepfamily –Day 21

Each year we make cookies for city workers and mailmen, place the cookies in boxes wrapped in paper and bows all glittered and festive for the Christmas season.  A card is attached thanking them for their hard work. This particular Christmas season we had the...

30 Days to a Better Stepfamily – Day 20

Rain at last, rain at last, coming down in sheets of gray across the pond, so low, and desperate for water.  Its edges once climbed the retaining wall, but now, dirt edges are exposed and blades of grass green with life, try to fill in its shallow core. The fall, all...

30 Days to a Better Stepfamily –Day 19

Christmas cookies are baked, Christmas music is playing, the fireplace is crackling warm and the tree, with all of its lights, is standing tall and elegant in the family room waiting the arrival of the stepchildren so that we can decorate the tree.  Excitement fills...

30 Days to a Better Stepfamily – Day 18

The sugar white sand is warm beneath the umbrella on Alabama’s Gulf Shore, and our summer vacation is in full swing with this blended group we call family.  Doc and I, we are working our brains constantly to come up with ways to bond, and create good memories of all,...

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