In April  of 2014 my mom and I took the girls to Puerto Rico for the first time over spring break. We stayed at a resort my parents had discovered many years prior, and I had stayed there on my honeymoon as well.  It is a beautiful place, and we had a wonderful trip. The weather was p...

And so it begins...with Thanksgiving behind us, we are into the holiday shopping season. Black Friday has traditionally been crazy with huge crowds and long lines starting super early in the morning. Many people enjoy this and gather with friends and family to go out and get those deals, but with th...

First of all, I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Celebrations were likely smaller than usual for a lot of people, but based on all the posts I saw on social media, many embraced the idea of a more intimate dinner with immediate family and still managed to enjoy and feel thankful. 

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This is sure to be a different type of holiday season for most people in this country and all over the world. For many Americans, Thanksgiving is a favorite holiday, and it is a time for large family gatherings. As someone who has a small family, I could never envision the scene when others would ta...

I think most of us realize now more than ever, that one of the ways we like to have fun is going out to a restaurant. The limitations we have dealt with over the past several months and continue to deal with now have definitely changed this simple yet enjoyable activity. It can be fun to have favori...

For many years, Monday nights at 8pm the girls in my house which included me, my mom and my two daughters would gather around our biggest and best TV to watch Dancing with the Stars. We began watching the very first season back in 2005 and we were  loyal fans for many years. We would pick our f...

Let's run 10 miles but stop 15-20 times to complete obstacles with varying degrees of difficulty...and lets's do it all in the mud! Sure...sounds like a great plan....was NOT my response when my physician assistant asked me if I would be interested in doing a Tough Mudder. It was 2013 and I had just...

In November of 2016 we took a short pre-Thanksgiving trip to another one of our favorite places, Naples, Florida. It was a common place for me to go for orthopedic meetings, so the girls and my mom joined me for one and loved it there. We then went for spring break a couple of times, and it became a...

It was August of 1994, and I just started medical school. I remember being very excited to complete my first week, and then be heading home to New Jersey to be a bridesmaid in my best friend from high school's wedding. I was running late when I showed up for the rehearsal and just jumpe...

It's Sunday night and you think where did the weekend go...I am not ready to start another busy week. I have this feeling often. Mondays come too soon, and I never feel like I got enough done over the weekend. My work days are long, and even though I don't have kids at home anymore, I still feel lik...

When one daughter is a senior and the other is a sophomore, it's a great time to have a pre-homecoming party for both! What better way to have fun than to throw a party. We enjoy having parties at our house, and this was a special one. It was the pre-party before the Homecoming dance in 2017. We hav...

We got off to a slow start at The Working Mom this week and have not posted on the blog until today, but we will get back to our daily content next week and get our new products on the website as well so stay tuned!

I love doing a Throwback Thursday post, because it is so much fun to look back over o...

As I explained in yesterday's post, I love Halloween and not only have I had fun at home with my kids, but also at work with my partners and staff. Several years ago, I suggested we have a Halloween Happy Hour in the office just for something to do at the end of a work day to boost morale. I thought...

We are big fans of Halloween in my family,  and I have enjoyed dressing up with the kids over the years. When they were young I would dress up to take them trick or treating, and we had so much fun. I have brought my love of Halloween to my office as well which I will expand upon tomorrow on th...

Five years ago if someone would have said to me "you will be a competitive ballroom dance student traveling around the country and even the world to dance", I would have laughed and never believed it could be possible. I am happy to report that person would have been right! I could never h...

Crisp weather, beautiful colors, pumpkin patches and corn mazes are just some of the wonderful things which come along with the transition to the fall season. For many years we went to the same farm every October to pick pumpkins, which usually included a hay ride out to one of the fields, and their...

I love to throw a good party and celebrating milestone birthdays is a great excuse to do just that! I had a party for my 30th. At that time I was in my residency in Pittsburgh, married with one daughter. Fast forward 10 years to a bigger bash for 40! I was then a mom of two, and I had been working i...

Setting goals has always been a big part of my life. I feel like staying focused on what you want to achieve in life definitely helps you get there...or try to. Of course it can sometimes seem very overwhelming to think about what it might actually take to reach certain goals, but if you never set t...

We all love music in my family, and there is nothing better than live music.  Concerts are so much fun. Both of my daughters have favorite artists, and we were able to see them in concert several times.  These were all amazing experiences. I too have a favorite band which will be a good to...

Not much of a story behind this collection of photos, but I wanted to share a few favorites from when my daughters were very young. I do have a quick little anecdote, though, which you might find amusing. They both have the most amazing big blue eyes which would always get comments from people anywh...