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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A Peek Into the Life of a Working Mom: An Unexpected Lesson from Kanye West

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English: Kanye West at the Vanity Fair kickoff...
English: Kanye West at the Vanity Fair kickoff part for the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. Photographer's blog post about this event and photo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Kanye West says things that are controversial and does things that are definitely uncouth, by any standards. That said, \he said something powerful at the BET Honors with his acceptance of the Visionary Award that really touched me. In a very tongue and cheek tribute to his wife, he nailed the racial problems in this country with one sentence and identified a solution. He said, “[W]e deal with racism because there are different races. Or the micro of it, we focus on different races, as opposed to the macro of it, which is the human race”.

In a word, he called us on our problem. We major in the minor when there are bigger issues to deal with. We are more in common that we are different, but we often forget that.


Kanye West Taught This Working Mom a Lesson


Dismissing Kanye West as crazy would be all of our mistake. I do not condone all of his actions or his choices. But his comments did resonate with me, probably because I am a part of a blended, multi-racial family. This experience has expanded my views about race and love beyond that which I could have conceived.



My husband and his family

We have a complicated history in this country. Also, this country has too many people that are racist. And that racism has caused innocent Black boys to be killed without cause and seemingly without consequence.

That said, we are all a part of the human race and those ties transcend racism. There are also many multi-racial families, like mine and the Kardashian/West clan, that are united by love. This love has created lives, like little North West and my husband, and has the power to heal.

Kanye West may be an ass for interrupting people at the Grammy’s and the Saturday Night Live Red Carpet and perhaps at a Whole Foods in LA (I’m just guessing). However, he spoke the truth at the BET Honors' like a visionary...

We should all be focused on the macro, which is the human race. Doing that will help this country achieve its true potential and make this country a better place for our children. 

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