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Tips for the Working Mom

• Don't fight change, just plan on rearranging your sleeping and waking schedule to ensure that you get quality time for you (i.e. working out, reading, correspondence etc.)
• Force yourself to get into the habit of cleaning up, moving/folding laundry, preparing lunches, and planning breakfast every night, before you go to bed. 
• Prepare extra food on Sundays to use during the week (i.e. chop veggies and large fruits and prepare storable meals). 
• Always have crackers or other snacks and water in the car. 
• Utilize some of your lunch breaks at work to run errands (grocery shopping and post office), but also reserve some of them to refresh yourself (take a walk or eat with a friend).
• As a working mom, you need to be good at multitasking and staying organized.
• Try to make lunches the night before.
• Pick out kids outfits the night before and
• Make sure to get kids to bed early enough that they get the sleep they need.
• Work as a team with your spouse, Get yourselves ready first in the morning. Wake up kids so that they have enough time to eat, get ready and play a bit before you rush out the door to daycare and school.
• Try to talk about something you will do together that night before you all go in different directions. That way, you start the day on a positive note and have something to look forward to at the end of the day.

 

Mom in the Spotlight

Kristen Bender

Profile:

I would like to nominate Kristine Bender as a Mom on The Move. Kristine is one of the most active members of our community of Verrado. She and her family have volunteered countless hours to many organizations including The American Cancer Society's Relay For Life, the Verrado Elementary and Middle Schools, the PTA, Amor Ministries, and now Water Is Life (see article below). Water is Life is a program where we can help save the lives of children who do not have access to clean water. Kristine has worked hard to raise awareness in her community about this program which provides water filters for children around the world who do not have clean drinking water. The filter costs $10 and last for about a year. Kristine is truley a mom on the move as she has visited and aided orphans in Mexico and Haiti and more recently has gone to places like Africa to deliver these life saving filters to children in need. She is truly an incredible woman and mother and she is an inspiration to me. That is why I hope that you will consider her as a Mom on The Move.

Kristen in the News:

 

Verrado's Bender Family Turns Off House Water for One Week to Save a Child's Life for a Year!

Honor World Water Day, March 22

The Bender family - a family of four including two daughters Picabo (13) and Livvie (10) - will shut off their Phoenix suburban house water for one week. They will fulfill their daily water needs by carrying water in buckets from their 'water well' to their home each day, perhaps a few times a day if necessary. They will fill their buckets at the local well - the Verrado Village Sport and Health Club - and carry their water up Main Street to their home which is approximately a mile round trip. They have chosen to give up their house water as a representation of how challenging it is around the world to obtain clean water each day. They are hopeful that they will generate awareness to help solve the global pure water crisis - all in honor of World Water Day. Watch and share in their daily experiences at www.waterislife.com.

They are giving up water for one week (Sunday, March 22 - Sunday, March 29) to save a child's life for one year. Their hope is that people will recognize and acknowledge their efforts by donating a simple $10 to save a child's life for one year. Each $10 donation purchases a water filter that hangs around a child's neck and filters out bacteria that causes waterborne diseases which kills 4500 children each day. Visit www.waterislife.com for more information on how you can help, and to save a child's life from waterborne disease for one year. The water filters will be distributed in Kenya in August, 2009.

The Bender family will be ready to shut off their house water on Sunday, March 22 at 5 p.m in honor of WORLD WATER DAY 2009. (Maybe girls not so ready!)

 

Read Kristen's Blog: http://waterislife.com/blog/




Past profiled mom...

• Nancy Nelson
• Kristen Bender
• Lisa Ventrella

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