by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life, Negotiations & Lullabies
She half ran half skipped through the pouring rain carrying what appeared to be a body bag. When she burst through the front door she shimmied from her backpack, kicked her shoes off without hands and shrugged her coat from her body arm by arm before sprinting the...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
Sometimes people do a double take. They see the overspill of magazines from my ‘magazine bin’ and turn back peering at the faces and names looking back at them from the covers. I have Portland Monthly in there yes, and my husband’s entrepreneurial rags espousing...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
You will find here at Blended many reviews about books, TV, tools, and films for adoptive families. I try to only point to those that have been most helpful to me, or those that have the most universal appeal and are high quality. Currently there are two films, one...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life, Handmade & Homemade, Life
Friends, we have been cooking together for nine months! Nine months of homemade kitchen discoveries and ultimate cuisine disaster. It has been fun, right? My kids look forward to each month and just what I will surprise them with (sometimes to their horror). All in...