One of my favorite things about summer time is watching my flowers and plants grow. There is a strange satisfaction in watching something that I planted grow into something pretty or delicious. There is even more satisfaction when I get to cook my produce! Sometimes I’ll just go stand and look at my garden and just admire the progress. I would say I’d go out and water it, but we’ve had so much rain this summer, that I think I’ve only had to drag the water hose out there twice so far. There is one garden chore, though, that I particularly dread. Weeding. There is no easy way to weed…
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Grace In Life’s Messes: Hope for Blended Families
I want to take a few minutes to talk about something that is pretty close to my heart. I hesitate though, because I don’t know the answers the majority of the time. Most of the things I write about, I haven’t perfected and probably don’t do well; but I at least know what I’m supposed to do, how I’m supposed to act. But when it comes to this, I don’t know. And if I’m really honest, the fear of failure here is another reason that I hesitate to start this dialogue. A dialogue about step-parenting and blended families. It’s so rarely talked about, but so real life. There isn’t a…
