• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Not Your Average Mom

Not Your Average Mom

Always evolving.

  • Blog
  • Home
  • About

Lessons I've Learned

Small Changes, Big Results

December 28, 2022 by not your average mom 5 Comments

I kicked off 2022 weighing 184 pounds. It was the heaviest I had ever been outside of pregancy. I basically ate my way through the discomfort of 2021, and I had developed some solid (and really unhealthy) eating habits in the process. I used food to numb myself, and I did a good job! 😂 […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care Tagged With: before and after, free challenges 2023, transformations

Not Much Has Changed

December 23, 2022 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

It’s impossible to predict what your kids will grow up to be like when they are born. You never know. It’s a crap shoot. But there are some aspects of their personality that are evident very early on. I was looking at some old pictures the other day from my grandmother. She was pretty good […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned

The First Christmas Was Pretty Simple

December 22, 2022 by not your average mom 3 Comments

Six years ago I wrote a post entitled To All the Moms At Christmas, and I re-shared it a couple days ago on the NYAM Facebook page. When I wrote that post the kids were 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10 years old. Everyone believed in Santa. I was in the thick of parenting young […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned Tagged With: simplifying Christmas, simplifying the holidays

Lessons From A Swim Meet

December 17, 2022 by not your average mom 2 Comments

It’s day three of a 4-day swim meet. I’m one of the chaperones for my son’s team, and we leave the hotel at 6:15 a.m. each morning for the pool. Breakfast doesn’t start early enough at the hotel for the kids to eat before they leave for the pool, so one of the other chaperones […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned Tagged With: embracing failure, learning feom, mistakes, reframing, swim meets

My 2023 Goal

December 15, 2022 by not your average mom 3 Comments

I’ve been pretty impulsive my whole life. Words come out of my mouth before I think about them. A thought comes into my head and I act on it. I hear about something cool and I sign up for it. Someone implies I can’t do something so I do it. This impulsivity has its pros […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned

Time to reassess

December 13, 2022 by not your average mom 3 Comments

Life has been a little bit crazy lately. Unmanageable. Not because of the holidays but because I’ve just had too many plates spinning at the same time. Tonight was the banquet for the girls’ high school swim team. I went from boys’ high school practice to the banquet. I have so much to get done […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Go to page 4
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 75
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Looking for a particular post?

Follow Me!

Categories

  • Exercise
  • Food
  • Funny Stuff
  • Lessons I've Learned
  • Life at My House
  • Mental Health
  • Parenting
  • Self Care

  • Home
  • About
  • Blog Posts
  • Privacy Policy