30 Days to a Better Stepfamily – Day 14

She talks and talks and talks.  She can talk for thirty minutes straight and never take a breath.  My head is spinning and I want to put duct-tape over her mouth for just a few minutes and give my head a break.  I need just a few minutes with my own thoughts so that I...

30 Days to a Better Stepfamily – Day 11

My angry words fly like red-hot embers propelled from a slingshot, creating collateral damage for anyone in their path on their way  toward my husband.  I want him to take my side, to set the record straight and do it where I can have the satisfaction of hearing it...

30 Days to a Better Stepfamily – Day 10

I walk into the room, and morning light spills soft and glowing across tiled floors and a rug of robin’s egg blue.  Pulling back a silky, chocolate comforter and shaking floral sheet, I watch crumbs of food smuggled into bed after hours, fly through the air, like...

30 Days to a Better Stepfamily – Day 8

It is 2:45 in the afternoon and I have been working for two days trying to prepare for out of town guests who will be arriving in about three hours.  There is a lot I would still like to do, and at this very moment I am trying to cook a really great meal when I...

30 Days to a Better Stepfamily – Day 7

One of the most difficult things to do is live in a stepfamily.    Scars on our soul and voices of the past can torment our sleeping and waking hours.  All who come into a stepfamily bring with them wounds, and images from the past.   Some images are of a family that...

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