BFSO Won an Awesome Girl Blog Award!
One of my favorite stepchicks, Erin, from the Erin Experiment and from the Stepfamily Letter Project just awarded BFSO with an Awesome Girl Blog Award! We were so honored and flattered by this award and the way the beautiful Erin described us. She said we were like Stepchicks meets the View, except with much better attitude and hair! We love it!
Now it’s our duty and privelege to pass the award on to a few of our favorite beautiful, spunky, sassy, blog lady favorites. Here we go…
- Wednesday Martin is one of our favorite beautiful, spunky, sassy stepmoms. As the author of Stepmonster: A new look at why stepmothers think, feel, and act the way they do, she gives you permission to breathe and not feel guilty about certain “evil” feelings that most, if not all (they just don’t want to admit it) feel from time to time. As a matter of fact, she advocates for more understanding and sympathy of the stepmother; encouraging, experts, ex-wives, stepchildren, divorced dads and society as a whole, to take the stepmother’s feelings into consideration when trying to navigate through this maze we call a stepfamily. We love Wednesday!
- The ladies of The Stepfamily Letter Project, which just happens to be Erin, from the Erin Experiment and Jacquelyn Fletcher, from Becoming a Stepmom, are some more of our favorite blog chicks. The Stepfamily Letter Project is a blog that allows you to anonymously post your feelings regarding anything in your stepfamily; be it joyous, angry, sad or “evil.” We encourage all of our readers and clients to visit their blog and release some tension. If you feel you can’t go directly to that individual, but still need to get it all out, visit The Stepfamily Letter Project to get it off your chest. Trust me, you will feel much better after doing so.
- Peggy Nolan of the Stepmom’s Toolbox is another one of our fab favs! I love the way that Peggy focuses on holistic stepfamily care. From stepmom self-care to learning how to forgive to fashion, The Stepmom’s Toolbox is great place for helpful information.
- Last, but certainly not least, are the ladies of Spicy Wifey! We love this blog because it allows us to focus on what’s important - OUR MARRIAGES! Too often, we choose to focus on the drama in our stepfamilies; the ex-wife, the stepchildren, the conflict…instead of focusing on building a strong foundation for our families through marriage. We forget to increase that spice factor in our marriages and ourselves, as wives. Spicy Wifey teaches and reminds us to keep it HOT!
So there you have it, some of our favorite spicy, spunky, sassy, and beautiful blog chicks! We have more, but I’d be typing forever. Erin, thanks again for the award and for being one of the stepchicks who inspires us!
Kela, Diane, and Julia
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Author Rob Flood credits the principle of first response for helping to change his attitude and heal his marriage. He says that the course of any conflict is determined by the responder, not the initiator. Remember, as the responder, you can choose how the conversation will go. Are you interested in being right, and being heard; or are you interesting in hearing your partner/spouse in order to resolve the conflict? If you both make concerted efforts to hear each other and then respond accordingly, you will discover that you'll be much better at resolving conflict.