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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Winter Solstice Lesson for Moms with Young Children

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Celebrating life

Today is December 21st,  the Winter solstice.  It is a time to put old things away and start anew. As someone who called me today said, "It is a time to say goodbye to everything that hasn't been working for you and embrace what you want in your life!" 

When this person called I was elbow deep in cleaner scrubbing my tub, my kids were fighting and I just realized my three year old had pooped his pants. I had also picked up my husband's dirty clothes off of the floor for the umpteenth time. The combination of factors is probably why the deep thoughts and new age thinking hit me different. And, although most days I strive to be at my highest vibration and am able to receive such things, today, I rejected it from the pit of my soul and thought, "Why is it that most of the deep thinkers don't have young kids?!"

And while I realize that yesterday had significant cosmic significance, it also had practical significance too. I am a firm believer that your circumstances shouldn't define you. However, I also acknowledge that you aren't immune from them. Where you are at a given moment in time, what you're confronted with, and what your responsibilities are affect you. And, until they are doling out magic wands, you may not be able to say goodbye to the things not working for you. Still, I don't think you have to in order to be happy. Instead, identify how to be happy anyhow.

Winter Solstice Lesson for Moms with Young Children

My advice is this. Figure out what you need to do to weather the storms that may be a part of your reality.  Because here's the thing. If we could simply say goodbye to storms, they wouldn't make umbrellas. 



Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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Unknown said…
Cheers to being able to pull an umbrella out if you need it. I agree.
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Chaton T. Turner said…
Thank you for commenting! It's always nice to know that I am not alone in my thoughts!
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