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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Happy Father's Day!

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“What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.” ― Barack Obama, 2008

Family at the beach


Daddies, the men who get up everyday and try to make a difference in the lives of their kids. Their success is measured years after they perform the job consistently for years. Along the way, there are fun  and hardships, but no guarantees. For that reason, we thank them on this day. 

 Let's Hear it For the Daddies


We thank them for having the courage to keep getting up and doing the hard, painstaking work every day. We thank them for making sacrifices, changing diapers, and drying tears.  We thank them for striving when its tiring and loving when they might not feel like it--like when the kid accidentally kicks them in the nuts, spits in their faces, or ruins their favorite something.

Daddies do all of this and more. Several years ago, I wrote an ode to the daddies. Here's a link to that post. And to all those daddies out there, like my dad, my uncles, my father-in-law, and my husband, I salute you!


Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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