Best Parents

Tonight, I realized I really am a single mom. As I sit here all alone waiting for the Dance Program to start I look around and I am the only one in the auditorium sitting all alone. My Son had Boy scouts tonight and my daughter is in the Program. I keep looking behind me to see if Archi will be walking in the door. I pray so hard for RaKel that he does walk in and for myself, I pray that if he does, that he doesn't bring HER. In my mind all I can think about is how vulnerable and week, I must look. Read more [...]

I constantly run across step families, or blended families if you prefer, who either have no idea what awaits them or their doors are blown off because they didn't know it would be like this. They almost always say that it is so much more difficult than they imagined. How do you survive? How do you reverse the trends that have begun? The following is how to have a step family and survive. One, survival rate is increased dramatically if new blended families get informed before they dive in. I promise, Read more [...]