“Just Dad can come in. I am really mad.” Knowing that I am a stepmom, you might assume that this note was left for me by a disgruntled stepchild. You might assume that, as the stepmom, I had done something to upset the child. Or you might think that Dad Read more…
You’ve been stuck inside your four walls for a while now during quarantine. You’ve been making extra meals, dolling out extra snacks, cleaning up extra piles and possibly even homeschooling the kids. Maybe you’re working from home, or trying to parent the kids from your workplace via cell phone. You Read more…
But alas, unless you remain 6-feet apart to uphold social-distancing standards, the prospect of seeing our mom friends in person will be like watching that last pack of toilet paper get snatched out of your grasp on aisle four!
I got up well before the sun rose. I washed dishes, emptied the dishwasher, wiped the table from last night’s crumbs, the ones left over from dinner before we raced out the door. As the sun was rising, I picked up stray items, tidied surfaces, did a load of laundry. Read more…
Have you ever been deeply touched by someone’s story? Touched to the point that it changes your outlook on life or causes you see your situation differently? Maybe you even see God differently afterward? When I started writing about my stepmom journey, I often felt anxious when I realized that Read more…
“I know I should pray about this, but I don’t know where to start. I’m just so confused.” Sound familiar? Sometimes the thoughts swirling around our heads are just too tangled up to eloquently put to words in a prayer that makes any sense. So we give up trying. Read more…
There were so many nights that I stayed up late cleaning well after everyone was in bed, just so we didn’t have to start out each new day in a house full of dirty dishes, crumbs and toys strewn across the floor. “There is a season for everything…” As stepmoms Read more…
I made my husband late for work today. As I handed him his egg sandwich on his way to get his shoes on, he told me there was a huge spider that ran behind the oven that I might want to kill. “You have to kill it before you go,” Read more…
“I’ve been feeling like a failure lately…and it hurts.” These were the words that caught my eye as I was mindlessly scrolling through my news feed. And out of sadness for this person, I wondered what kind of words had been swirling through their mind day in and day out. Read more…
He reached into the candy bowl and pulled out an attractive-looking item. Once it was in his hand, however, he realized it was just an empty wrapper. The guilty culprit was a frail, elderly woman holding a bowl on her lap while biting into a chocolate bar, letting empty wrappers Read more…