Anger ~Stepfamily Tuesday
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...
Small Prayers ~ Stepfamily Tuesday
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...
Studying My Children for Clues ~ Stepfamily Tuesday
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. But, raising these beautiful women to be all that God has...
Off With Their Heads! ~ Stepfamily Tuesday
It is one of those days when I feel like the Queen of Hearts in Alice In Wonderland. I ready to yell, “OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!” 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...
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