30 Days to a Better Stepfamily – Day 28

Being a step mom is probably more difficult than a birth mom, there are not as many hugs or “I love you”; and, at times, there are none at all.  You work hard and are given little credit or recognition.   I am on the sidelines with some conversations between...

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,...

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...

Just Call Me, Sandwich!

Okay, let’s just call it what it is!  I have entered the sandwich stage of life!  I am old enough to have children and grandchildren, and blessed enough to still have parents. But coaching children that are becoming parents and encouraging parents that are becoming...

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