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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Let's Hear it for the Daddies (Happy Father's Day!)

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A Daddy and his baby 


Reading all of the Facebook tributes to fathers got me thinking about the men in my life who have stepped up and showed out--showing other fathers how it's done. Any man with sperm can "donate" sperm to make a baby. However, only those with courage demonstrate the love and support that goes along with being a father.  So, I salute all of those guys who took the road most traveled, but fraught with turns and bends in the undergrowth.


Those men make their kids feel loved. And they do the job every single day. 


I love reposting a poem from a prior Father's Day that I wrote because it captures my feelings about fathers. Fathers help make the world go 'round and make all of the babies feel loved and discover their potential. Let's hear it for the daddies!!!


Let's Hear it for the Daddies (Happy Father's Day!...: Daddy on Duty An Ode to Fathers... 1. Let’s hear it for the guys who try really hard only to get chastised by the women in their l...

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