Blended Family Stirred into Humorous Greeting Cards

GOODLAND, Kan. (August 13, 2008) -- When Brenda McCants, president and owner of Blending Moments (http://blendingmoments.com), found herself the stepmother in a blended family, it was humor that saw her through her toughest moments. She's designed a new line of greeting cards to help other blended families grow closer through laughter.

Blended Family Moments

Three years after her divorce, Brenda met Larry McCants and fell in love. They decided to marry and merge their families of four children, ages 6 to 12. McCants is the first to acknowledge that creating a blended family can present trying situations.

McCants´ children had only known the Southern metropolis of Charlotte, North Carolina, where they attended private school. Imagine the culture shock when she asked her children to move to Goodland, Kansas, Larry´s hometown.

They asked, "Where´s the mall?" when the highest building in the small town of 5500 people is a grain elevator! Today, they climb up on the family Suburban and take pictures of cornfields and sunsets.

McCants remembers failing a crucial test during her first meeting with Larry´s children. She joined them for a ski vacation, only she didn´t know how to ski. McCants jokes, "While Larry´s children sat at the bottom of the hill and telephoned their birth mother to complain, it took me 45 minutes to get down the green slope."

It took another ski vacation to jumpstart her journaling about humorous situations with her blended family. "There we were, the kids sparring, me crying, and, finally, I saw the humor in it all." McCants remembers saying, "What have we done?" and Larry remarking, "Someday the children will be gone." Propelled, she began keeping a journal and writing down the family interaction.

From Humor to Greeting Cards

McCants´ early journals notated classic feelings that are expressed by stepchildren. Her notebooks, the inspiration behind her cards, are also full of humorous statements that neutralized tense situations and soothed tender feelings. "Even though it is difficult, we are going to laugh about this and enjoy the ride," comments McCants.

From her journal entries, McCants developed greeting cards to address blended family situations. Her cards have sentiments that many blended families experience. The card illustrations are food items and cooking utensils because "stepfamilies are truly blending and cooking all the time." The graphics focus on the issue or occasion, not the person, and lighten the intensity of a blended moment.

Bring your blended family closer together with McCant's custom greeting cards. View card designs through our interactive website at http://blendingmoments.com.