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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Comments from a Working Mom: I am honored to be called "Mom"

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My mom, me and my daughter, three generations of Griffin women

Last night, on Mother’s Day Eve, I was in my daughter’s room rocking in her rocking chair with my son. My daughter was sitting on the floor reading a book to us and laughing. It was a moment of sheer bliss and something occurred to me. I am a mom to two kids and everything that goes along with that. 

Being a mother makes me appreciate my own even more

I constantly appreciate that it is my honor and privilege to mother these children. However, at that moment it became more than that.  It occurred to me that I am a mother just like my mother, aunts and grandmothers.  In some ways I can hardly believe that I have entered the ranks of the mothers who came before me—Zany Gardner, Earlie Mae Turner, Claudia Griffin, Sylvia Griffin, and Cecilia Griffin Golden just to name a few. I am in the mother club and I can hardly believe it.

It is so humbling to join the ranks of these women who raised me.  These women who made mothering look intuitive... These women who epitomized strength and beauty and made me aspire to more... These women who taught me to strive and to remain faithful... These women who worked and sacrificed so that I could have opportunities. These women who believed in me more than I believed in myself... Sometimes I wonder if I shall ever truly be worthy for the title of Mother that I share with them.  However, I will spend a lifetime trying.

Happy Mother’s Day to all of you and the women you love!
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