by Diane W. Bailey | Dec 18, 2012 | Diane's Posts
30 Days to a Better Stepfamily – Day 26 I want to share with you some communication that took place between Doc and me early in our marriage. I have mentioned more than one, that I had a lot of growing up to do to be a stepmother. In the beginning, I cried…A LOT!...
by Diane W. Bailey | Dec 17, 2012 | Diane's Posts
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...
by Diane W. Bailey | Dec 16, 2012 | Diane's Posts
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,...
by Diane W. Bailey | Dec 15, 2012 | Diane's Posts
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...
by Diane W. Bailey | Dec 14, 2012 | Diane's Posts
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...