30 Days to a Better Stepfamily – Day 25
My children are twenty-something and thirty-something years of age. Doc’s children are in their early twenties. Both sets were about the same age when their parents divorced. No matter how old a child is, they always long for their family of origin to be one. This...
30 Days to a Better Stepfamily – Day 24
Outside my home right now is a painter, scraping old paint from around the windows and the fascia of our house. It is time for a fresh coat of paint. We purchased this home about a year after Doc and I married. I had sold my house and moved my daughter,...
For the Brokenhearted and Crushed in Spirit
Praying for all who have lost loved ones, all who are brokenhearted, and all who are crushed in spirit.
30 Days to a Better Step Family – Day 23
Long before I was a stepmother, I was the neighborhood mom. There have always been children in and around my home. Sometimes it got a little crazy. One day, the boys were outside jumping out of the two story oak tree in our front yard. Going out, I cautioned them...
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,...
30 Days to a Better Stepfamily – Day 17
A prayer for stepfamilies: Father, you are all wise and knowing. You know the hidden thoughts of each person in this family, their fears, and their joy. Thank you for seeing and understanding us, even when we don’t understand each other or even ourselves. You love...
30 Days to a Better Stepfamily – Day 16
“I didn’t asked to be born!” shouted my teen from the bedroom. “It’s not fair. Nobody else has to do this! You’re so mean!” And the door to the purple room closes with a slam. “Good thing you didn’t ask to be born today,” I thought to myself. “Today...
30 Days to a Better Stepfamily – Day 15
We are a family with a history, some wonderful and some not so wonderful. We are a stepfamily trying to become a real family. Sometimes I can identify with Pinocchio wanting to be a real live boy, because I want – we want, to be a real live family. Sometimes we do...
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