Blended Families ~ 5 Ways to Cultivate a Good Blend

As I picked up the salad dressing and began to shake it up, I was reminded of how blended families are much like salad dressing. Strange analogy, I know,  but some blended families are much like oil and vinegar. They only begin to blend together after a lot of shaking up and a lot of work, and then after things settle down, they begin to separate and their differences become very clear again. Others are like Creamy Italian dressing. Once they have been poured into the same jar and stirred around a bit, they remain blended well…and instead of two …

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