Blended with Grit and Grace: Just Keep Livin' When Life is Unexpected

ISBN: 168426281X

Author: Jessica Ronne

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Ryan and Jess blended their families after losing their spouses to cancer in 2010. This has led to an unexpected and often hilarious journey. Blended with Grit & Grace invites you to walk alongside them and learn what it's like to have eight kids under one roof.With wit and wisdom, Jess offers fresh perspectives on managing different parenting styles, developing family traditions, and meeting the special needs of your family. Jess, with frequent asides from Ryan, also probes deeper marital and family concerns that are often experienced but not talked about like grief, breakdowns in communication, finances, and insecurities. Filled with gentle advice, Blended with Grit & Grace transports readers into the Ronne's kitchen so you can ponder the detours that have come up in your own life.From the trials of step-parenting to the challenges of raising a teenager with special needs to figuring out what foods everyone will eat, Jess and her husband, Ryan, dont mince words, but they do give one another and God credit for making it all work. The Ronne's story will leave you with hope that you, too, can find reasons to celebrate the extraordinary in your own ordinary life.-Ingrid Lochamire, blogger, speaker, author of One Mans WorkIf you're walking through a dark time or are just afraid of whats next, this is the book for you. This is a personal story with practical advice. It will resonate with your own experiences and needs, and you will feel like Jess is a friend walking beside you.-Jessie Clemence, authorReading this memoir is like being hugged by a warm blanket. A tattered and torn blanket, for sure-it has been through a lot-but that's what gives it the kind of life wisdom and comfort youre looking for. Sit down by the fire with your friend Jessica and wrap yourself in this book.-Ron Deal, blended-family speaker, therapist, best-selling author of Building Love Together in Blended Families (with Gary Chapman) and The Smart StepfamilyA brave telling of the beautiful reality lived out by blended families, Jessica Ronne shares her story of real grief blended with real grace, hardship, and hope. The words she writes of overcoming trauma and tension are an invitation to every family-blended or not-to just keep living for and through love, even in the midst of loss.-Rachel Kang, author, Founder of Indelible Ink WritersJess shares so generously the three things that have restored and nourished her soul in hopes they will restore others': faith, family, and food. With a deep and honest look into a real-life blended family, this ultimately is a beautiful story of surrender-surrender to God's will, God's plan, and God's timing, especially in the midst of incredible pain.-Dr. Lisa Pea, cofounder of Labeled & Loved, author of Waiting for the Light Bulb and The M.o.C.h.A. DiariesFilled with honesty and heart, Jessica invites us into the deep joys and sorrows of being a parent. Sometimes heart-wrenching and other times hilarious, her accessible storytelling about finding healing in unexpected places is all at once fierce and tender-just like the mother she clearly is.-Kayla Craig, author of To Light Their Way, cofounder and host of Upside Down podcast