What do you do when the Three hour tour becomes a lifelong adventure on the Stepfamily island? Sounds bad but actually I have to say most people that walk into the “Step family” experience have no clue what’s coming. They think they’re on a romantic cruise and suddenly the storm hits and life turns upside [...]
New places and faces…
We’re entering into a new season of parenting. Our oldest child is getting married in another state. There are new twister steps to navigate as we want to make her wedding weekend a celebration, not a declaration of strife or hurt feelings. Entering into all the festivity planning knowing that our goal as natural father [...]
About Les and Sweetie
Les & Sweetie Berry have lived their own happily ever after remarriage for the last seven and a half years (since 2002) When they met in 2002, they each had custody of their own two children. Les’s children were 12 and 16, Sweetie’s children 5 and 8. They cross country dated for too short a [...]
Step and Blended Family resources
www.BlendedFamilyAdvice.com A resource for blended families and step families with newsletters, free articles, ebooks and more to help them with their families.You can also find us on Twitter at BlendedFamily4U STEPcoach- Bob Collins As the Founder and Executive Director of STEP-Carefully!, Inc., Bob leads local support groups and conducts seminars and workshops. He also works [...]
New Year Reflections…
The new year is off and running. I had to laugh this week when I was asked to share some stepfamily experiences. We’re heading towards our seventh year as a blended family….and apparently that’s longer than 70% of subsequent marriages make it….startling isn’t it?Blended family dynamics are indeed challenging. There are so many angles of [...]
New Year's Eve
Its almost the New Year and year seven of being a stepfamily. My how things change, the little guy was 3rd grade and now he’s 6’3″! My oldest stepchildren are in college and one is about to get married in April. The family has moved to Aabama for a year now and God is growing [...]
Sharing….
The children are at their other parent’s until Wednesday….family on both sides are important to our children. Blending families doesn’t change the very real parts of there are four families to deal with and holidays don’t multiply. The quiet of the week allows me to prepare for the holiday I do spend with them….which is [...]
The Beginning Piece
If your family, church group, organization or situation is struggling with step and blended family issues whether it be actually being in one, programming for families in the church or simply wanting to make church a place for all people to learn about God, find healing and forgiveness and walk nearer to Him? Let’s keep [...]
