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Your, Mines and Ours: 10 Common Blended Family Complaints

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Beautiful wedding, blissful honeymoon, one in a million spouse, what more could anyone ask for in a marriage, even when previous children are involved? Before you said ‘I do’ you may have noticed a few possible challenges ahead in your blended family, like “Yours Mines and Ours: 10 Common Blended Family Complaints” but with full confidence you said to yourself, “ We may have some challenges but certainly not anything that we can’t handle together.” After the wedding a...

When your Family Needs Recharging

One of the manyfeatures on my iPhone is the low battery mode.At around 20% of the battery life, my ever so smart phone asks me if I would like to switch to low battery mode in order to conserve my battery life. The goal is to preserve the life of my phonea little while longer.What I love most about this is that I don’t have to remember to check the battery before it dies; the nice folks at Apple consideredthe busyness of my life and made it more convenient for me to recognize when I need rec...

The Remarried Stepmom

As a remarried mother, my journey can feel much like a beautifully and uniquely created bird that has wings but can’t fly. Here is what I mean by that.

Recently my son and I took a trip to Chic Fil A after he had finished competing in his elementary school’s speech meet. Rather than going inside, I chose to preserve my mommy energy for a trip to the Hobby Lobby I spotted a mile away. So like the other cars in front of me, I paced myself through the long yet fast drive-thru.

Although there ar...

Dating Saves Marriages

When I think back to most of the challenges that we overcame in our marriage, one thing that helped to bring unity back into our relationship was dating. Without hesitancyI can confidentlysay thta dating helps to bring unity back into marriages.

When my husband and I first met, we dated. We dated on weekdays and weekends and holidays and made up days. We dated so much that the feeling of bliss constantly overtook every argument and frustration because we had time together that was just for us...

Simply 5: Let them eat cake (And make a mess of it too)

My sister-in-law recently shared a screenshot of my 16 month-old nephew in the middle of what looked like snow all over her living room floor.

Snow? I thought.

Not so much. Rather very meticulously torn pieces of tissue.

I loved it!!

She, however, was not quite as amused(she did have to clean it up after all.) He, on the other hand, was very proud of his work.

We’ve all seen the photos and memes of children and toddlers in the most precarious of situations: covered in shaving cream, tattooe...

Going to Bed With the Doors Wide Open?

Have you ever gone to bed and left the doors to your home unlocked? Better yet, have you ever just left the doors wide open while everyone was sleeping? Most of us would say with confusion and pride ‘of course not, how ridiculous What kind of father leaves their home unprotected like that?’

As men, we are protectors by nature. When danger approaches, our fight or flight instinct kicks in, especially when it comes to our family. When we feel trouble lurking around our homes we become the pro...

Loving Outside of the Bloodline: Showing Love in a Blended Family

Let me preface this story by explaining that I am a protector by nature and sometimes that natural protector can jump the gun.

Not long ago my step daughter came home and shared a concern regarding someone that we knew. The person had been making harsh statements toward her and it was beginning to get a little out of hand. The statement didn’t seem to bother her much but before I knew it I was upset beyond explanation and had gone from calm to extremely upset.

I had turned into Mama Bear pro...

5 Habits for Making Family Time a Priority

When I was asked to contribute to Simply Five, it was like winning an Emmy. Me? You want me to contribute and share my ideas for making the most of family-time? Oh thank you (princess wave)!!

Then it hit me, Shawna, you actually need to write something to contribute. Butwhen? I find it hard enough to make time to take a nice shower, if I can be candidly honest. My mommylife is jammed packed with work, homework, dinner,dance classes, on top of laundry, soccer practice and basketball games, Be...