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Back-to-school stress is a given, but it doesn’t have to be a god. You don't have to bow to it or be undone by it. I used to treat August like a military operation: Every detail triple-checked, every contingency planned. I was Moses with a planner, minus the staff. But God didn’t call us to control every outcome. He called us to faithfulness. Instead of spiraling into anxiety about supplies and schedules, I started asking God to help me see this season differently.

Resilience is your "bounce-back-ability" and you must have it in order to move your family from chaos to connection.

Turn your blended family into a lasting legacy. Learn to set values, blend histories, and build a shared vision for unity and love.

Strengthen bonds this season with fun, faith-filled holiday traditions to for stepfamily bonding! Create unity, joy, and lasting memories!

Bonus grandparents play a pivotal role in blended family dynamics. A well-adjusted bonus grandparent can help a blended family bond!

“It’s just one day,” but it is a day of great significance... well-supplied with unrealistic expectations, tension, and territorial wars...

Let's begin a conversation on how to use conflict to improve our marriage.

When I chat with a Bonus Mom who tells me she can't love her stepchildren I know I'm listening to a woman whose heart is at war...

I am not much of a shopper for myself, but give me a list of someone's favorites, passions, and a budget...I will shop like a madwoman

The most wonderful time of the year can be, under the best of circumstances, the most stress-inducing time of the year.

If we want our children to thrive, we have to be willing to do the difficult stuff. It’s not enough to co-parent with threadbare civility...

When we take a non-accusatory look the dynamics of step-family life, we will begin to understand non-custodial parents have it hard too.

A lot of that tension exists because of the gap between intention and perception.

Nothing is beyond His power to use for His glory and our good. Including our stepfamily relationships.