At our home summer means that the children are going to be traveling to see their other parents.  Our paperwork states six weeks is to be spent in another state, and if we don’t agree to the dates, its the first six weeks of summer.  As little children six weeks… Continue reading →

So glad you found us!  We’re Les & Sweetie Berry, a blended family of almost eight years now!  Les is currently deployed in Afghanistan, but we know where the real war is….raising the teenagers!  Our oldest two are now in college and our oldest is married and on her own,… Continue reading →

We’re getting ready for deployment in the Berry home this week. Les is Department of Defense and he’s headed to the Middle East.  Deployment is a really tricky thing for some step families.  When a biological mom or dad leaves the country, in some states a step child may be… Continue reading →

   Spring Break our children go to their other parents homes.  We gather up the Saturday it begins and head three and a half hours on the high way to meet them halfway. We don’t have to, but we’ve found that cooperating and meeting half way is easier on all… Continue reading →

   Easter has passed and Mother’s Day is coming.  Did you know there is a StepMother’s Day as well?  Personally Mother’s Day covers both for me.  I reared my husband’s two children from the day we married in 2002.  Mother’s Day from year one was a day I was very… Continue reading →