One Secret to a Working Mom Success: Make Family Events More Enjoyable With Friends

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Better Together: Why Inviting Another Family Makes Activities More Fun #FamilyFun Sometimes family activities can feel like another item on the to-do list. However, doing those activities with another family makes them more fun! Whether it’s a trip to an amusement park , a visit to the local pool , or trip to a pumpkin patch , including another family can multiply the fun in amazing ways. One of my favorite moms to collaborate with is my friend, Ayana Ledford who's pictured above with her daughter Sahar. We have done all of the things listed as seemingly random examples above and here is how including her and her daughter (and sometimes her son too) has made the events more fun. On the date above, Ayana almost left the venue because parking was a nightmare. That said, she hung in there and we would up having a great time!
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Working Moms, Make Time for Romance on Valentine's Day

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Valentines Day is a day for lovers, but as working moms do we have time for romance?

Being a Working Mom Can Complicate Romance



Everyone remembers the unfortunate but relatable scene in the First "Sex and the City" movie where Miranda and her husband Steve were undressed having "relations" and he asks to change positions and she says something like, "Can't we just forget it done already? We have to get up for work in like four hours?!" Needless to say, the mood was broken and that was the end of the "relations".

Later in the movie, she explains to her friends that she is often too tired too have relations and is generally too busy with working, mothering, play groups and taking care of aging parents to even care. In a word, her life was interfering with her love life and the romance in her married was dead. It took an affair, marriage counseling and almost losing her marriage to make her realize that she didn't want a dead, loveless marriage, she wanted one that was alive!

It's a common story, you get overworked, overtired and feel under supported and the first thing to go is romance.


This Valentine's Day Make Time for Romance


I'm not going to ask you what's going on in your household. As my grandmother would say, "that ain't none of my business." Instead, I am just going to give you a word of encouragement. If you're a working mom and are generally too busy for romance, pause today and get your grove back.

Today is for lovers and you used to one of them--that's how you got pregnant in the first place. So, put the kids to bed early, pop open a bottle of wine, put on some slow music and remain open to the possibilities. Work will be there tomorrow, but tonight is time for romance!

Cheers!



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