A Secret to Success This New Year: Become Committed and Resilient

Mom and son celebrating the new year in the Bahamas in 2025! "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Confucius Greetings from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ! Things have been busy. I am still a working mom of three , working full time who is trying to make a difference. I do a lot of things and try to be present so that I can learn from them. I share them on this blog so that we can learn together. Below are some thoughts, hacks, and/or lessons that I have learned from navigating my world. 2025 was intense. I faced a convergence of pressures: the stress of navigating life as a single mom while paying considerable  alimony ,  an intensifying family situation since we lost my beloved aunt, my dad, and my cousin’s mom—work related stress—learning a new job after an imposed job change, all while navigating the rapid pace of raising my kids and trying to maintain a standard of living for them with fewer resources. Together, these factor...

A Peek Into the Life of a Working Mom: A trip down memory lane (#Halloween #TBT)

English: Friendly pumpkin Svenska: Vänlig pumpa
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In our family, my sister is the Halloween fanatic. She gets way into it. She's the kind of girl who starts planning her costume a year in advance. I am more mellow. However, I do like to have a good time.  Below are a list of some Halloween themed posts...

Enjoy!

Halloween Memories

Sep 26, 2014
One of my favorite things to do in the fall is to pick out pumpkins with my daughter. It's not a tradition we had growing up. However, Andre got us in the habit of doing it and now I'm hooked!

Mommy Mondays: Preparing for Halloween - Chaton's World
Oct 23, 2012
Mommy Mondays: Preparing for Halloween. I consider sunny days in Pittsburgh akin to holidays. Today was a sunny day in Pittsburgh and I was thrilled! I greeted the day by seeing our jack-o-lanterns. They made me smile ...
Nov 01, 2013
Thanks to Andre, now that I've become a mom, I no longer view Halloween as a day. I view it as a season. A a few weeks ago we ventured to the pumpkin farm as has become our tradition. We walked around in the mud, took ...
Nov 05, 2012
On Saturday night Halloween finally came to Pittsburgh on Saturday night. Because of the rain and fear that accompanied Hurricane Sandy on October 31st , the City of Pittsburgh postponed trick-or-treating until Saturday, ...

October 30, 2007
Sometimes you need a reminder that things don't have to be serious all of the time...
http://chatonsworld.blogspot.com/2007/10/halloween-aint-just-for-kids.html

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