Week 12- Blended Families

So this week, Brother Williams had his wife come in and they answered any questions we had about blended families. I found this very interesting. They talked about some of the best ways to blend a family, and some of the challenges. The question I asked, about the differences between blending divorced families and blending widowed (or widower-ed) families helped me to understand my grama's relationship with her step-father a little better. My grandma lost her father and brother in a fishing accident when she was 16. Her mom eventually remarried, and to this day, 61 years later, she still talks about Art with a sneer in her voice.  Granted, Art was kind of a scum bag, but I wonder if my grandma, mom and uncles would think differently about him if her mom had just gotten divorced instead of widowed. I love learning things like this, that make sense of the things in my life.