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The One Thing

February 12, 2020 by not your average mom 1 Comment

For the past few years, I thought I had it figured out. But I didn’t. Not even close. And it wasn’t until today that I had a major wake up call. Actually, that’s not true. The wake up call started about two weeks ago. Two weeks ago I lost it on my kids. Like massively […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: overwhelm, prioritizing, work smarter not harder

Your Decisions Can Be UN-decided.

January 31, 2020 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

I have had a rough couple weeks. It’s why I’ve been virutally absent here on the blog and also on the Facebook page. The details aren’t important. I don’t need any sympathy or empathy or Oh, that sucks. What I do need is to reevaluate, and I need to look at the life and the […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Mental Health Tagged With: overscheduling, overwhelm, parenting changes, reevaluating

Mom, Why Are You So Salty?

January 22, 2020 by not your average mom 10 Comments

When I was in high school, I was voted Class Clown my senior year. When I was in college, I was given the PMA Award by my college swim coach. That stands for Positive Mental Attitude. If you asked my friends (both past and present) to choose one word to describe me, I can’t say […]

Filed Under: Funny Stuff, Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: consistency and parenting, consistency in parenting, parenting, setting boundaries with your kids

Mommy, I’m Proud Of Myself

January 12, 2020 by not your average mom 4 Comments

Number 6 started wrestling in October 2019, about three months ago. It’s our first experience with the sport, and I thought it was going to really teach Number 6 a lot about hard work and perseverance and the importance of moving out of your comfort zone. And it has. But I think it may be […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Parenting Tagged With: parenting young athletes, wrestling, youth wrestling

Making Changes in 2020 Blog Series — Day 1: The Accountability Mirror

January 1, 2020 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

We have a hashtag in my membership group. It’s #TTBAGU. What does that stand for? Time To Be A Grown Up. One of the things I am working really hard on with myself and all my clients is taking ownership of all the sh*t that’s not going the way we want it to go. The […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care Tagged With: habits, making changes, taking ownership, why you are failing at making changes

The Answer Is Inside You

December 5, 2019 by not your average mom 2 Comments

I am going though some really tough stuff right now. REALLY TOUGH. And I don’t know what to do. One day I am sure I know. Then the next day I question every thought I had the day before. It’s very uncomfortable. It’s scary and frustrating and infuriating and devastating and exhausting. 90% of the […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned Tagged With: surrender, surrendering

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