As women, we often don’t take enough time for ourselves… Many of the women in our community wear many hats: wife, mom, business owner, employee, coach, chauffeur… It can be easy to put ourselves at the very end of the line when it comes to priorities. I’m not saying we should always be first…just that there should …
theblendedmama
Teresa is a wife, virtual school mom of teenagers and stepmom. She resides in Lexington SC with her children, her dog Nia, and her cat Waffles. Her passion is helping women find calm in the chaos of life. As a full time engineer and owner of multiple businesses, she understands the challenges and struggles that come from having an overwhelmed schedule and is here to help you reduce that chaos.
How to Make a Butterfly Bookmark Using a Tula Xii Deco Kiss Set
I’ve never claimed to be crafty, but I love the Deco KISS sets offered by Tula Xii… So I enlisted the help of my daughter to find something that we could use these beautiful papers to create. Bonus points for giving us something to do together! That’s sometimes hard to do with a tween. She’s finished …
Choosing the Perfect Cover for Your Lifestyle
Plan your dream life, beginning with the cover that embodies your evolving lifestyle. The first step to choosing your new Tula Xii Lifestyle Organizer is deciding which size organizer will work best for your lifestyle. That might mean you have different sizes for different areas of your life, too, so don’t feel like you have to …
Something Old, Something New
Well, it’s been a hot minute since I’ve sat down to write a blog post. I can’t imagine why that has been. Covid. Virtual school. Opening a storefront restaurant in the midst of a pandemic. Remote working. Blended family challenges. Did I mention opening a restaurant? Haha. It’s been a wild ride, that’s for sure. I do …
It’s All About the Relationship
Listen up small business owner friends! Running a small business is hard work, and I’m sure that’s no surprise to you. I believe one thing that will set a business apart is the relationships that are built. Business is all about relationships…how well you build them determines how well they build your business. ~ Brad …
The Blended Mama’s Guide to the Small Business Owner’s Planner Setup
If you’re anything like me, you’re doing anything you can to keep all of your responsibilities straight. As a business owner, on top of working a full-time job and trying to keep our blended family functioning, this seems like an impossible feat at times. For 2019, I did actually purchase a planner, and more importantly USED a …
What Work-Life Balance Looks Like For Me
Work-life balance feels like a joke most of the time. Truly, most of that is my own fault. Because of *all* the things that I do, I do have to make a conscious effort to improve my work-life balance. I juggle a lot of things – full time job, side hustle, supporting our food truck …
National Step Family Day 2019
Today is National Step Family Day! If you know DJ and me, you know that neither of us are proponents of divorce, despite the fact that we are both divorced. Being part of a step-family can be challenging, both as the parent and the child. Despite that more than 50% of US families these days …
Open Hearts
When I was in fourth grade, I experienced the loss of a relative for the first time (or at let the first one I remember). I was 9 years old. (Note: as I’m thinking about it…it might’ve been second grade…my memory from that far back has long-since faded with that level of detail.)My parents drove …
The Reality of Step-parent Adoption
We have waited for this day for years. Literally, years. Now that the day has come, it feels somewhat anti-climactic. At the end of June, we were able to finalize the legal process of step-parent adoption. We are now officially the Stones, Party of Eight. While I’m obviously happy (and relieved) to be at the end of …