When you have children, it’s important to help them stay connected to the other biological parent’s family. Too often, second marriages result in broken extended-family relationships, and this will hurt the children. They are forever connected to that biological extended family, for better or for worse. They are related by blood and by heritage, whether…
My husband finally loves Christmas. No, this is not about the holidays, but it is about something that happens to me during the flurry of activity that accompanies anything I’m in charge of. Like Christmas at our house. Bill named this setting on my dial machine-gun mode, and I think it feels good. Things need…
My husband once made a comment to me about how I “hate” the cowlick he wakes up with every morning on the back of the left side of his head (notice I specified exactly where it is). I was slightly offended. Hate? It seems like a strong word to apply to something so insignificant. But…
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Preparing for marriage begins long before the proposal. I glimpsed this recently when I had the opportunity to offer words to a thirteen-year-old during a rite of passage ceremony. While the boy currently cares more for World of Warcraft, burps and farts, and squirrel impersonations, his father wisely knew that this would be a moment…
