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 9

They are sisters by marriage and not by blood, yet their mannerisms are so similar.  Last summer we had trouble telling them apart in photographs and needed to look at their swimsuits to tell who was who. I study them closely trying to really know who they were...

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...

30 Days to A Better Stepfamily – Day 5

I do not have a PhD in physiology, though there have been so many times that I wished I could download such a degree for immediate use.  But even a PhD in physiology does not have all of the answers we need to deal with a Stepfamily. Like it or not, an Ex is a part of...

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