Cheryl ShumakeMay 6, 20225 minPrepping Your Heart for Mother's Day“It’s just one day,” but it is a day of great significance... well-supplied with unrealistic expectations, tension, and territorial wars...
Cheryl ShumakeJan 28, 20229 minFace Like Flint: Staying Consistent in Blended-Family FicklenessMy husband and I were recently speaking with my bonus daughter. We've been doing a lot of that lately as she is preparing for the birth...
Cheryl ShumakeMay 16, 20214 minMeet Our 2021 Stepmom of the YearWe sat in our various spaces, over Zoom, in 3 Mid-western States, discussing how to bless stepmoms in 2021. It was time to do something...
Cheryl ShumakeMar 14, 20213 minCease Fire: Ending the Civil War in Your Stepmomma Heart 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...