Top 5 Good & Bad of Stepfamily Life

Being a stepfamily has many great and positive characteristics.  It also comes with a difficult and very different set of challenges.  I’ve taken the liberty

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Privacy Can Cause Trust Issues

So, if these are NachoKids, does that mean you shouldn’t know what’s going on with them?  For example, should I be informed of the kids’

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Family Meeting

We try as a family to eat dinner together.  Unless we are eating spaghetti and I don’t cope well with slurping 🙂  We take this

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The “Not So Joy Of Giving”

My son and my Nacho Kids are blessed with a lot of toys/things at our house.  However, in our home, there seems to be an

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But I’m Only Trying To Help Them …

Throughout our journey, we quickly discovered my expectations were a lot higher for children than these children previously had.  Here we go with the “When

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Life is an … amusement park

Before we were married, we thoroughly researched “blended” families.  We were both bringing in children from a previous relationship and did not want to be

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Nacho Kids®?!?!… Really?!?!…

Yep! I am Nacho Mom, Nacho Mama, Nacho Parent… I will Nacho! Nachoing™ is the blended lifesaver! After some major downs in our attempts to

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Boundaries

A recent conversation brought this to mind…   BEFORE you get into a relationship where step kids are involved, make sure you are willing to

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Step Parent’s Day

While celebrating Mother’s Day with my son and my husband, the subject of there not being a step daddy’s day, or step mother’s day for

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Stepfamily Expectations

One of the first things I learned (after counseling & reading material) was the difference in expectations of stepfamily life versus biological family life. We

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