Legacy Coalition Blog Team

Written by Leona Bergstrom, Director, Re-Ignite Using cut-up U-Haul boxes and a roll of duct tape, we created a container suitable to check in for our flight home. Inside it, we packed two enormous bear heads. Not real ones, of course. These were plush, soft, and very ugly pillows – Christmas gifts given to our […]

Written by Dr. Joannie DeBrito, Family Support Specialist In Part 1 of this blog, I discussed the importance of self-care for grandparents raising grandchildren. Now, I’d like to share how grandparents can nurture family relationships while caring for grandchildren and seek mental health and legal help, if necessary. I will end with some misconceptions and

Written by Dr. Joannie DeBrito, Family Support Specialist The time of life when we have the privilege of enjoying our grandchildren can be very fulfilling and fun. But for some grandparents, it’s more complicated. Rather than enjoying their post-parenting years watching their children take on the primary caregiving of their own children, they’ve found themselves

Written by Deb del Villar, Director of Communications Have you ever tried to catch a flittering, fluttering butterfly? Just when you think you have it, it darts off in another direction, here and there, up and down, all around! Then, something changes – a beautiful red flower has attracted the butterfly’s full attention. The butterfly

Written by Deb del Villar, Director of Communications Have you ever been on a treasure hunt? I haven’t ever followed an authentic treasure map with an “X” marking the spot to a chest filled with jewels. Yet, I have experienced treasure hunting! Every summer during childhood we went to Long Beach Island in New Jersey

Written by Assunta Maria Vickers Nineteen flight-hours away from my Southern California life, Sweden is cold, wet, dark, and bleak. Frost on my breath fogs my glasses. It’s late, close to midnight at landing. Wearily recalling the route, I concentrate to ensure the cabbie is driving the right way. I saved up a long time

Written by Sylvia Schroeder, blogger of When the House is Quiet “Sie ist zu klein,” I can almost imagine my last Grandpa saying, his words spread thick with a German accent. “She is too small.”   I never knew any of my grandparents. I don’t honestly know what it was like when he said those words. I can’t

Written by Deb del Villar, Director of Communications As our oldest grandchild heads off to college, I find my thoughts wandering back in time. They go to the time his mother, our oldest child, went to college. Memories spill over one another as the tears cascade down my face. While she commuted to college, there

Written by Judy Douglass, Author, Blogger, and Podcaster In last week’s blog post, I talked about grandparenting as a stewardship responsibility and opportunity. Here are four more ways we can invest in our grandkids: 5. Create Adventures My children all love adventure—and it seems their children do too. We have a family vacation every other

Written by Judy Douglass, Author, Blogger, and Podcaster Grandparenting is certainly one of my favorite seasons of life. I love being with my 10 grandkids, and I also love that they are my children’s responsibility. I come away from time with them energized and exhausted. I get to exercise creativity and exhibit calming peace. They