by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
Dear State of Florida, The Onion, The Lady at Trader Joes, and Clerk at JCPenney, Oh my. I am having a mixed bag emotional day. So many things to think about this morning and to attempt to process and most of it leaving me a bit on the hopeless and angry side. First,...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life, Life, Negotiations & Lullabies
My girls have a new favorite book. Each is taking a turn reading it, considering, and then just like girls from Jersey, they talk amongst themselves. Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio is a book about an African-American girl who upon studying the presidential...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life, Life, Negotiations & Lullabies
We were smack dab in the middle of the bedtime routine, deeply involved in the storied negotiations involving a grasshopper and an ant when my three-year-old son said, “Mommy, I’ve been thinking about something.” “About grasshoppers?” I asked. “No. About mommies.” He...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
With far too much happening on the web I curated a special list of articles and happenings just for Blended readers. Here’s a list of what I’m reading and thinking about this week. Last week I discovered this amazing resource and can’t seem to stop...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
“Its nice that you are honoring her Korean roots so well. But you realize that there will come a day when all she’ll be in America is black.” Those words were spoken to me when my daughter was not quite three. They were powerful words then and now I’m seeing those...
