F Categories For the Mums and Dads For the Stepparents July 29, 2021 Five Steps to Survive the Holidays and Save Your Sanity I’ve fixed the holidays for you. You’re welcome. Read on. Perhaps fixed is a touch overstating things, but the plan below will make you feel..
C Categories For the Whole Family July 29, 2021 Christmas Traditions: The Sibling Tree It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Last night, after two days of insistent urging, we drew names for the Sibling Tree. The Sibling Tree..
W Categories For the Stepparents July 29, 2021 Why I Don’t Love My Stepchildren as My Own When Gabe and I married, I understood I was committing to him and Sara, Amy, and Jack for the rest of my life. I had no idea..
S Categories For the Stepparents July 29, 2021 Surviving the Stepdaughter War My stepdaughter Amy has a war raging within her. It surfaced this weekend. “That’s not how mom makes potatoes,” she told me as I slid the..
T Categories For the Whole Family July 27, 2021 The Ugly Truth About Blended Families Last night, as we settled into bed with a glass of wine, Gabe shared that Caden had recently hurt his feelings. He’d planned an outing he thought..
C Categories For the Mums and Dads For the Stepparents July 27, 2021 Coming Home: Custody Transition Do’s and Don’ts Over the years, Billy and I have shared custody in many different ways. We’ve bird nested, alternated every two days, spent time in a 2/5/5/2, and..
S Categories For the Mums and Dads For the Stepparents July 27, 2021 Saying Goodbye: Custody Transition Do’s and Don’ts Years ago, when we first began sharing custody, I dreaded the time my children were with their father. I missed them terribly, and transitions triggered..
W Categories For the Couple For the Stepparents July 26, 2021 What Every Second Wife Needs to Hear The most romantic statement Gabe ever made to me didn’t happen on our wedding day. He didn’t declare it at the base of the Eiffel Tower, or..
A Categories For the Mums and Dads For the Stepparents July 23, 2021 All Mothers Matter I recently watched my grandmother die. She was nearly 93, at the end of a long and storied life, and she had no pain. My..
