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Mom Lesson #486

April 6, 2018 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Number 4 has secured fairly regular babysitting jobs for two different families. Every job she’s done so far has been from about 5 or 6 p.m. to 10 or 11 p.m. She’s there for a couple hours, gets the kids dinner or dessert, puts them to bed, and then has some time to chill out. […]

Filed Under: Humor, Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: baby, babysitting jobs for kids, jobs for kids, lessons for moms, playdates

im gonna have to ask you some Qu-estions

April 1, 2018 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Watching three day swim meets is not all that fun for 6, 7, and 8-year-olds, so while we were up at Zones these past few days, the three little guys stayed with my parents. We didn’t come back until this morning, so my mom and dad were on egg dying, egg hiding, and Easter basket-filling […]

Filed Under: Humor Tagged With: celebrating Easter with kids, Easter, Easter Bunny, Easter traditions for kids

Keep Being You

March 31, 2018 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Today we finished up the final meet of the season. It was a three day meet called Eastern Zones Championships, and it’s a tiring meet both physically and emotionally. We weren’t planning on going to it until about a month ago. Since it was kind of a bonus meet, Number 4 especially was just out […]

Filed Under: Humor Tagged With: Easter Zones Championships, Number 4, swimming

Mom, Do You Need A Tampon?

March 29, 2018 by not your average mom 2 Comments

When you are at a three or four day swim meet, you spend a lot of time in close quarters with your kid(s). You are tired and you are experiencing a range of emotions at the pool and you are in a hotel room together and you are sharing a bed and you are in […]

Filed Under: Humor Tagged With: periods, sex ed, swim meets, tampons

Scrabble

February 21, 2018 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Number 6 and 7 have recently discovered Scrabble. Not the Scrabble Junior version. The actual grown up version. And they love it. They were playing with my husband in the dining room. He was on a team with Number 7 (who is 6 years old) and the two of them were playing against Number 6, […]

Filed Under: Funny Stuff, Humor, Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: keg, Scrabble, Scrabble Junior, toke

Pulling The Grammy And Papa Card

November 16, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Last week Number 7 made a Christmas list in her journal. It was so cute I had to take a picture: I was going to decipher it for you, but I’ll let you try to figure it out on your own: Stuff ror krismis i Pad 2. FijiT spinr 2. fijit Qub A water  Bottle. […]

Filed Under: Humor Tagged With: books, Christmas, christmas list, fidget spinner, four gift rule, grandparents, Santa

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