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PODCAST

Enjoying Your Blended Family

Randall & Scarlett Tandy

Welcome to Enjoying Your Blended Family! We bring new episodes every Monday and Friday. Mondays are on hot topics in blended families and Fridays are all about fun ideas you can do with your blended family. This podcast is all about strengthening your blended family relationships and having more fun, giving you hope and encouragement so everyone is enjoying the journey together.

kids & family parenting

All Episodes

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118. [FF] Recreating Your First Date

Enjoying Your Blended Family ·

2022/10/07

Do you remember your first date with your spouse or with your blended family? Depending on how long you’ve been together, this could be a challenge. Recalling those memories are a powerful way in your relationship to stir up those first loving emotions you had. We give ideas on how you can remake that first date you had with your spouse and the first date you had with the kids. EPISODE RESOURCES: HOW TO ENJOY YOUR BLENDED FAMILY: 5 Dates To Discover Fun In Your Step-Family, by the end of

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117. Thinking Divorce, Do These First - with Special...

Enjoying Your Blended Family ·

2022/10/03

Staying away from the Big D (and we don’t mean Dallas)! Most blended families have experienced divorce before. So how can we make sure that it won’t happen again to us? Dr. Kim Kimberling from Awesome Marriage joins us in this episode, and shares some valuable information on how you can keep your marriage growing stronger together instead of growing apart. You’ll find out how to keep your marriage awesome! You can find more on Dr. Kim Kimberling and Awesome Marriage on his website:

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116. [FF] Walk 'n' Talk Challenge

Enjoying Your Blended Family ·

2022/09/30

Are you challenging me??? It’s not a serious challenge, but one that will add some fun to your marriage. We share some fun date ideas that you and your spouse can have from this simple challenge, and it doesn’t even cost you any money. Are you up for the challenge? EPISODE RESOURCES: HOW TO ENJOY YOUR BLENDED FAMILY: 5 Dates To Discover Fun In Your Step-Family, by the end of these 5 dates you will have a great plan and see more fun in your home, helping build stronger family connections and

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40:56

115. What Does God Say On Divorce and Remarriage?

Enjoying Your Blended Family ·

2022/09/26

What does God say about divorce and remarriage? Many are quick to throw the Bible at people, many are hurting and desperate to know where they stand with God, and some just honestly don’t know. Am I living in sin, can I ever love again, does God hate me??? There can be so many questions if you have ever gone through the devastation of a divorce or are remarried. In this episode, we share what God has shown us through life and in scripture. We are now over fourteen years married as a blended

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114. [FF] Dating Your Stepkids

Enjoying Your Blended Family ·

2022/09/23

“You want a taco?” Okay, so that’s just one approach to asking your bonus kid to hangout with you (and a pretty good one we might add), but there are a lot of fun ways we can be intentional on dating our stepkids. We share three ways you can present some really cool opportunities to hangout with your stepkids and build that relationship over having fun together. Although this can be a challenging relationship to build, it is well worth the time and effort. EPISODE RESOURCES: HOW TO ENJOY

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43:08

113. Being Present As A Step-Parent

Enjoying Your Blended Family ·

2022/09/19

How do we still stay present with our stepkids when we’re being rejected by them? The step-parent and stepkid relationship isn’t always an easy relationship, there can be a lot of outside influences and a lot of hurt feelings on both sides. But as a step-parent there are certain things we can do to help make growing that relationship easier. We share four things we can do as step-parents that show our stepkids we are in this relationship for the long game. When we equip ourselves with these

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112. [FF] Mystery Dates

Enjoying Your Blended Family ·

2022/09/16

It’s not wrestling, it’s a mystery date!!! Detective Scarlett (without a badge) and non-detective Randall describe what mystery dates are and how you can use them to pour fun into your blended family. This is a fun way to build your relationships, called a FunFamOp (well, Randall tries to get that one to stick with little success). These mystery dates are great to do as a family, couples, friends, birthdays, holidays, and more. It gives you that new experience together with little effort and

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43:38

111. No Perfect Blended Family - with Special Guest...

Enjoying Your Blended Family ·

2022/09/12

There is no perfect marriage, and no perfect family! (Whew, that should be a relief for us all, right?) Then why do we chase after it so hard sometimes? We can try to make everyone else fit into the version of love or family we think it should be. The great news is we can be free from this, and it can bring us a lot more peace and happiness. Dr. Alyson Nerenberg joins us in this episode to shed light on how we all have different levels of narcissism and perfection desires inside of us and how we

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26:14

110. [FF] More Than A Library Date

Enjoying Your Blended Family ·

2022/09/09

Who says a library has to be boring??? What if we said you could experience a pretty awesome date night at the library and it’s free, would you be intrigued? The library offers so many cool things besides just books. We give you the ins and outs to what a library can offer, and how you can use this to have a lot of family fun. Free fun family date nights!!! Who’s in? EPISODE RESOURCES: HOW TO ENJOY YOUR BLENDED FAMILY: 5 Dates To Discover Fun In Your Step-Family, by the end of these 5 dates

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55:19

109. The Power Of Letters From A Dad - with Special...

Enjoying Your Blended Family ·

2022/09/05

A priceless gift you could give your kids. Some have said “What would you say to your younger self if you could?” Although we can’t do that, we could write down the things we have learned in life and wisdom we could share, and pass that along to our kids. Andy McQuitty joins us in this episode and shares how 5 journals to his 5 kids, written for a span of 25 years, has made a great impact on their lives, and now the lives of many others. These letters contain what God has taught him throughout

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26:52

108. [FF] Couple's At-Home Massage

Enjoying Your Blended Family ·

2022/09/02

“When our bodies get rubbed, it feels good.” A quote by Scarlett that we should put on a T-shirt, lol. If you’ve never had a professional massage then you are missing out. Why not bring that relaxation and atmosphere to your house? This is something you and your spouse can use to spice up the bedroom or just have a relaxing evening. We share ways to make this easy, so your hands don’t cramp and get tired, and we also give some pretty cool alternative ideas that you may not have thought about.

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107. Recognizing and Overcoming Anxiety in Your...

Enjoying Your Blended Family ·

2022/08/29

Don’t worry about it??? (A lot easier said than done sometimes, right?) We’ve all dealt with anxiety on some level before, and it can definitely be seen in a blended family. Many of our blending challenges can cause worry or anxiety in us and in our kids. But how do we know if it’s real or if we could use some help overcoming this? Dr. Tracey Marks joins us in this episode to help us identify what anxiety can really look like in us and our kids, and then provides practical tools we can use to

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106. [FF] The Hippo Challenge

Enjoying Your Blended Family ·

2022/08/26

It is said that if you feed them, they will come! I don’t know who said it, but it sounds pretty legit, lol. We’re bringing back an oldie but a goodie! This episode, we talk about how you can add food and have a fun date with your spouse, all while having a little competitive fun in the process. This is a cheap idea that can spice up your relationships. EPISODE RESOURCES: E.N.J.O.Y. THE JOURNEY: A Blended Family Roadmap To Having Fun Together, A NEW WAY to have a great plan that will bring

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105. Initiating Sex In Marriage - with Special Guest...

Enjoying Your Blended Family ·

2022/08/22

Do you know what the different desire styles for sex are? Or what is your style? Dan Purcell from GET YOUR MARRIAGE ON, joins us in this episode to share the 3 reasons why we don’t initiate sex more in our marriage, along with many ways we can make initiating sex more fun and enjoyable. When you’re able to communicate your desires with each other, it allows you to have a stronger marriage with more sex and intimacy. Dan shares ways you can do this, and has some fun and free resources to help

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104. [FF] Staples Intents on Overlanding - with...

Enjoying Your Blended Family ·

2022/08/19

Do you know what overlanding is? We didn’t until we found this amazing couple, Necota and Sonya Staples, who now run STAPLES INTENTS. They explain about the outdoors, what overlanding is and how it saved their marriage. They were on the brink of divorce, until they got some valuable information that they needed to start saying “YES” more to each other. From them taking that challenge, they went from being complete city people that frowned on camping, to now traveling the world and living out of

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103. How To Overcome Burnout - with Special Guest...

Enjoying Your Blended Family ·

2022/08/15

Do you ever feel tired, stressed, worn out, or lonely? Life and all our responsibilities can have a way of draining us. But we don’t have to let that be our story, there is a better way. Dominic Done shares some staggering statistics about how lonely and burnout most people are feeling right now. The main cause isn’t what we might think, it all comes down to the health of our soul. The world has a way of draining our souls, but God wants our souls flourishing. Dominic shares 7 Gifts from the

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102. [FF] End Of Summer Fun

Enjoying Your Blended Family ·

2022/08/12

It can be bitter sweet! Summer is coming to an end and our kids are starting to go back to school. Right in this transition, there are a lot of things we can still do to have fun and build our relationships through laughter. We share 10 Things You Can Do As A Family for some end of summer fun. Even though summer is ending, we don’t have to let the fun end too. These are some great ideas to keep it going. EPISODE RESOURCES: HOW TO ENJOY YOUR BLENDED FAMILY: 5 Dates To Discover Fun In Your

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101. The Influence A Mom Has - with Special Guest...

Enjoying Your Blended Family ·

2022/08/08

Who doesn’t love a good story? Why not pass on your family’s stories to your kids? As a parent, we can help foster the imagination in our kids and create adventure and excitement, even without leaving our own backyards. Author Alison McGregor shares how we can do that, and how she was greatly influenced through her mom’s stories about when she was a kid traveling the world. This has inspired her now as a mom and as an author of the book series GROWING UP ANTOINETTE. This episode is full of

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100. [FF] 100th Episode Celebration With A Fun Twist

Enjoying Your Blended Family ·

2022/08/05

Happy 100th Birthday!!!! We are celebrating our 100th episode with a list of our top 3 favorite Fun Friday episodes. The catch is that Randall doesn’t know Scarletts and Scarlett doesn’t know Randalls. So join us as we reveal them to everyone (and each other) and why they are so special to us. This is a fun episode for all of our BFam community. EPISODE RESOURCES: HOW TO ENJOY YOUR BLENDED FAMILY: 5 Dates To Discover Fun In Your Step-Family, by the end of these 5 dates you will have a great

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99. Our Story For Your Glory

Enjoying Your Blended Family ·

2022/08/01

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away!!!!! (Did you sing the Star Wars theme?) Okay, we didn’t take it back that far, but we decided what could be more special on our 99th Episode, but to tell our story and how we got here in a fuller version. We share snippets of our story throughout episodes and social media, but not all in one setting. Our heart is that parts of our story will relate to you and encourage you on your blended family journey. In this episode, you’ll laugh with us, cry with

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