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5am - Wake up. 6am - Get the kids ready. 7am - Fight traffic and drop the kids off at school. 10am - 2pm - Shop for groceries, pick up her son's saxophone and buy new soccer cleats for the week, done. 3pm - 6pm - Pick up the kids and shuttle them to dance, soccer and swim practice. 7pm - Dinner? No time to cook? Drive-thru it is then.  Autumn has always seen herself as a mom, so following a set schedule to get the kids ready everyday and off to where they need to be has never been a...

Every morning the bell rings and Chris is bombarded.  Requests start flying in from all around the school and the next nine hours are a constant flurry. He will run from his office to the field, checking in with kids from around the school. Teachers fly in and out of his office, asking questions, reminding him of the upcoming game, as well as just asking how he’s made it the last three months without missing a beat.  His answer? He can’t afford to miss out on life at school.  Chris’ duties require him to be on campus at all times....

Like many others, Shah-Yee Mojica has been trying to make the best of the last two years spent at home, away from family and friends. “My little ones had been around, and of course my husband and I worked overtime to keep each other sane, but I had really been missing spending time with the rest of my community,” Shah-Yee, a mother of three, explains.  “It started off great at first. Don’t get me wrong – there were times when one of the kids would get frustrated that they couldn’t see their friends, or my husband and I bumped into each...

Ever since I was a kid, I have always loved eating. Dumplings or hamburgers - if it tastes good, it would go into my mouth.  My personal mantra as a kid was: If it makes my mouth happy, it must make me happy. This led to many a problem when I was left to fend for myself at home, afterschool. My parents let me make my own decisions on what I should or shouldn't eat pretty early on. What did I eat, you might ask? Let's just say that my American palette loved combining Kraft Cheese, white bread and butter...