Growing With Extended Family

Do you ever feel like your "family tree is suddenly a forest"? Has having children changed your relationship with your family of origin or with your in-laws? With the holiday season quickly approaching, do you ever find it hard to balance creating your own family traditions with your children and maintaining those that you have carried down with you from your own parents or from those of your in-laws?

With parents, grandparents, siblings, in-laws, aunts, uncles, cousins, and relationships through blended families, our relationships with extended family can sometimes seem challenging, but with a little work, they can often times be very rewarding. At our next meeting, we will watch an informative video about growing with extended family. We will learn how our own childhood experiences with family often shape us, both positively and negatively, and how we carry those experiences into our relationships with our own immediate family. We will also learn how we can handle any differences of opinions that we may have with our extended families. For further thought, you can read Chapter 3 of the Life on Planet Mom book.

And with the holidays quickly approaching, we will be making one or more of three fabulous gift ideas that you can give to someone in your extended family or keep for yourself. Please remember to bring your frozen juice lids with you to our next meeting for one of these projects.

In addition, for those of you looking for some fun events coming up in our community, check out the following links. http://ehcheritagecouncil.org/upcomingevents.asp.htm and http://thepac.net/

And remember, we are still collecting items for our bundles for Clarity - Solutions For Women. For this meeting, we will be bringing baby bottles. They can be either new or used. We will be assembling the bundles at our Christmas Party on December 14th. We will be assembling the bundles at our Christmas Party on December 14th.

So come join us on Monday, November 23rd from 9:00am - 11:00am in the Family Life Center of First Christian Church for some food, fun, and fellowship as we continue our quest to discover ourselves on Planet Mom. Breakfast is being provided to us by the Water care group. Hope to see you there!