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...
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