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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 …
We just finished up one week of spring break and are starting down the road of spring break number two, and I am ready for a vacation! I mean, I’m ready for a vacation from this vacation. Do you ever feel like that? I think much of it for me is largely because I’m an …
Summers for blended families can be as stressful as they are rewarding. We recently had a week of “staycation” with our six children. I just wanted to share some of the lessons we learned (or were reminded of) during this week. 1. Your kids just want to spend time with you. More than anything else, …
To say that co-parenting with a former spouse is easy would be a lie. Regardless of whether you are on good terms with your ex or not, you are going to face challenges at some point. How you collectively handle those challenges can have huge impacts on your children. I’m going to share some of …
As the parents of school-aged children, you are constantly pulled in multiple directions – recitals, programs, sports games, fundraising events, carnivals, etc. There is almost aways some “event” that your children want to attend. As a blended family, one of the extra challenges we face is that two of our children (“mine”) live with us …
This is the third in a series, so if you missed them you can read the first one here and the second one here. We ended the last post with saying our “I do’s” and wedding cake (of course). I think I forgot to mention the importance of my wedding dress. I was honored to be able to …
If you’ve been following this blog, you know I’m in the middle of a series that’s telling an overview of DJs’ and my relationship. I’m going to take a break from that today because what I’m going to write about is heavy on my heart. Dealing with damaged emotions. We had our blending families small …
I’ve read some comments to a posting on another blended family FB page recently that really disturbed me. I know, I really shouldn’t read the comments, but I did. The original post was promoting the Blending Families material (and of course I can’t find it now to link it here) that we are using in …
Family dynamics in a blended family can get confusing to outsiders. For my kids, they have extra blending to do. They have an older half-sister, who lives with her mom, Wendy, in a blended family a couple of hours from us. Of course, they have the four step-siblings at our house. And then they have two …