Enjoying Your Blended Family

Park time, excellent. Whoo whoo whoo!  (Any Wayne's World fans? Close enough to Party Time.) Spring is in the air, and it's a good time to add going to the park to your list of fun things to do with your family. It's easy to forget all the many different activities that you can do at a park. Not to mention how every park has different attractions. Some have frisbee golf, some have butterfly places...

More Fun, More Joy, Less Problems!!! It's easy to always see the challenges in your blended family, but when you can shift your focus to having more fun with your family, you will see less problems. We can do this by discovering our family's common interests, then using those to create more opportunities to have fun together doing the things you love. In this episode, we explain our E.N.J.O.Y. THE...

Axel Rose is here with you today in this episode. Okay,  just to clarify, not Axl Rose, but Axel Rose. Yes, that was my axe throwing name when we went to throw axes. If you have never been to an Axe House, you are missing a lot of fun. This can be fun for your whole family, a date with your spouse, or even inviting a few couples with you for a night out. It is definitely a lot safer than it sounds...

It's all about time and money sometimes. Dating our spouse regularly can be a challenge. It's easy to let the busyness keep us from it. One big challenge can be little help with someone trustworthy to watch our kids so we can have that alone time with our spouse. We share 6 ways you can date your spouse without a lot of support. Dating After Hours Trade Offs Personal Day Off Small Home Dates Grand...

"Look at this photograph, everytime I do it makes me laugh" (any Nickelback fans?) Ok, this isn't about a song, but it is about the concept.  We take so many pictures with the ease of our phones, but how often do we go back and reflect on those photos? This is such a fun time to create an evening with your family and reflect back on your photos and home videos. It's fun to show your kids old photo...

Going through hard times together, creates lasting bonds. Susan joins us in this episode, as she shares what life was like being added to a new family at the age of 18.  Stability and security was what she was looking for, and God united her with us. What a journey it has been, one we all have learned and grown from. Her story shows another side that blended families can face. Even when running se...

There is one war that isn't bad…….a nerf war! Get your nerf darts ready and your safety glasses on, it's go time.  Whether you're running around outside of your house or inside your house, this is a great way to have a lot of laughs with your family.  You can have an all-for-all battle, teams, or kids versus parents. This even makes a pretty interesting husband and wife date, too.  We share all th...

84 hours of screen time in just one week!!! It can happen to us all, our scale between work and home-life can tilt out of balance.  As blended families, we need that quality time together for our family relationships to flourish, but work can rob us from that time if we're not careful.  Our family should never get our leftovers. We share these 3 ways you can help keep your work/life in check: Pray...

The fun must go on! Dating shouldn't stop after marriage, it must continue. It's how we can keep our marriage strong (and we get to have a lot of fun together, too). McCall and Collin, from the Average Daters, join us in this episode and share how dating can be really fun in your marriage.  They bring valuable tips on how you can overcome obstacles and make dating your spouse a priority, along wit...

Parenting together in your blended family helps your kids more than you may realize. When you know your parenting styles, then you can use your strengths and weaknesses to work together and parent as a team. Normally balancing each other out, you can become a parenting powerhouse together. There is beauty in each one of our parenting styles, and when we can put them together and add in a lot of co...

There's nothing that waffles and an old cartoon can't fix. Well, that's probably not true, but it's good anyways.  Do you remember what your Saturday mornings looked like when you were a kid?  Reminiscing about this can be a fun way to spend time with your family. Being able to share these memories with your spouse and kids, along with hearing theirs, creates some fun bonding moments. Then after e...

Do you know your parenting style? The differences in our parenting styles can really put a strain on our marriage if we don't understand the way each of us parent.  When we start identifying both of our parenting styles, we can then determine our strengths and weaknesses. This allows us to start learning how to parent together more effectively and makes our marriage stronger in the process. There...

Let's go outside together! With winter being here and spring right around the corner, a fun thing you can do with your family is go fruit picking at a farm near you. If you've never picked fresh strawberries from a farm, then you are missing a perfect opportunity to have fun with your family and share some cool memories. There are fruit farms all over the place, you just have to find one near you...

Stay connected with our Weekly Newsletter JOIN HERE . Valentine's Day should be 365 days out of the year.  We join Garrett and Chelsea from TRANSFORMED COUPLES, and they share some powerful information along with telling us why they say Valentine's Day Sucks. In this episode we learn about their blended family journey and how they learned to put their relationship first and watched everything else...

How often do you date your spouse? Or your kids? It's easy to let the busyness of life get in our way of spending quality time with each other and with our kids. Unfortunately when that happens, you start seeing more disconnect. When we used fun ideas that were already put together, it made it so much easier to make happen. We just had to pick one and put it on the calendar, it helped us make spen...

Stay connected with our Weekly Newsletter JOIN HERE . Speak in a language they can hear. We all give and receive love within 5 different love languages. All of us normally rank high in one and low in others. 1-Acts of Service 2-Quality Time 3-Words of Affirmation/Encouragement 4-Physical Touch 5-Gift Giving It's natural for us to want to speak in our love language to others, but if that's not how...

Stay connected with our Weekly Newsletter JOIN HERE . Bon Appetit! How can you take an ordinary night out of cooking a meal and turn it into a dance party? Invite your family to help cook. You can even have a great date night with your spouse cooking together. Then light some candles and turn down the lights. We share some ways you can take a night of cooking and turn it into time with your spouse...

Join our Weekly Newsletter HERE . The author of " JUST US ," a new blended family children's book, joins us in this episode. RaeAnn Childress shares how co-parenting in their family is working really well. She shows how operating as a "Parenting Family" helps lower the struggles in our kids and helps create a happier environment all around. Her new book helps show the possibilities of what co-pare...

Join our Weekly Newsletter HERE . There's power in dating your spouse! Unfortunately,  this can be the first thing that gets put to the side. Life gets busy, spending quality time with our spouse falls further apart. Then our marriage can start struggling. But what if it could be easier to plan and make happen?  Jamee shares how Date Crates was created to help couples make date nights fun, easy, a...

Knowing is half the battle! Our kids, no matter what age, in a blended family struggle with their thinking.  It's hard enough as adults navigating through all the blended family stuff, but what are our kids really going through? Confusion? Jealousy? Thoughts of Abandonment?  There can be so many thoughts that they are thinking and they don't know how to process them.  Ryleigh Tandy talks about gro...

Where is your spouse's love tank at? Join our Weekly Newsletter HERE . Another Adventure Challenge date that we scratched off was for us to take the 5 Love Language Quiz and then make a date that covers our top love languages. This episode gives you some ideas on how you can be a 'Love Ninja' and fill your spouse's love tank with the Love Nudge App. When we know how our spouse gives and receives l...

"Go big or go home!" Join our Weekly Newsletter HERE . That's a great saying for Texas, but not so much in a blended family and yet that's what we can try to do. It's easy to try and fix everything at once, but it can set us up for failure. When we do small intentional things though, we see big results. In this episode, we share some simple small steps that you can use in any relationship in your...

Is it really about a dog? Cecile and Frank, from Ella's Blended Family, join us for a special episode. O.K., so Ella is actually their dog. They share with us their blended family dynamics and how a blog emerged that is written from the eyes of Ella (their dog). In this episode, we gain so many valuable takeaways that we all can use in our blended families to help strengthen them. We also learn ho...

A child doesn't always understand their feelings. How could they, right? They're still learning the basics of life. So how much are they going through in a blended family and trying to understand it? It's easy for us as parents to overlook our children's feelings because we are dealing with so many emotions ourselves navigating in a blended family. Our special guest in the episode, Zoie Seay, shar...

A dream come true is a dream not forgotten. Ryleigh Tandy joins Scarlett to share how powerful and fun dream boards can be. Goal setting gives you the ability to see where you want to be and gives you the vision to reach out and make it happen. Dream boards are a fun and creative way to not just say it, but to see it. This can be a fun thing to do with your kids. As you dream together, you make la...