Category: large families
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Podcast 1:16 – Step Mother’s Day
In this episode we discuss how hard it is to be a step-mom on Mother’s Day, heck even Biological Mom’s have a hard time with Mother’s Day. Find out how we deal with this great day to remember the Moms in our lives. Feeling Let down on Mother’s Day Happens to Both Mom’s and Step…
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Podcast 1:15 – From Bad to Worse. Still Found a Couple Lemon Squares
This was a rough week for Paige & Darren, as Paige’s mom is checked into the ER and while there her dad suddenly passes away. Darren was 3000 miles away on a work trip and Darren learned how to rely on friends to help out in the hopeless situation. A thousand-mile roundtrip, a broken down…
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Podcast 1:14 – Sandwiches (Mustard/Mayo) – Making kids feel special in a Large Family.
Christmas Card 2013 Sandwiches might have nothing to do with treating kids as individuals, but in our house it does. Learn how just some small questions of our kids helped us find out how to treat them as an individual in our blended family. Treat each kid uniquely Lunches. Darren made everyone the same thing.…
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Podcast 1:10 – Heritage Road Trip with the Kids
Family Heritage Roadtrips help give your kids a sense of belonging and roots. With a blended family, it can be tricky if you don’t plan things out carefully. This episode is a travel episode of our Heritage road, find out what worked well for us and did not. Why a heritage road trip? It gives…
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Podcast 1:7 – Being part of a Bigger Extended Family (Blending into your spouse’s family)
The Three Amigos 2012 It can be really difficult blending families, imagine what is like to blend with 10 siblings. Blending includes not just your kids it includes your siblings and parents as well. In this episode, we look at the pitfalls and the success of joining a big family that already has a history…
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Podcast 1:5 -Family Road-trips survival of the fittest
This episode is about surviving and maybe even enjoying, road trips with your family. They can really be a time of bonding (or total stress!) with some preparation. Food, audible, games and electronics can get you through it!! Listen to the Episode Here Your browser does not support the audio element. Road trips can build…
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Podcast 1:4 – There’s no Step in Grandma and Grandpa
How do you extend your blending family through the generations? Our parents showed us through their example of accepting and bringing our blended family directly into our family. We have learned as we are starting to add grandchildren that who they biologically belong to really does not matter. In this episode, we talk about how…
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Podcast 1:1 – When Life Gives You Lemons
Listen to the episode here Your browser does not support the audio element. Brief history Both found ourselves divorced after over 20 years. We met online. Paige was the first girl to flirt with Darren online. It was hard to go on a date for the first time after 20 years. Did not want to…