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The Last Trip To DC

May 18, 2025 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

We have officially closed another chapter. Marit’s 8th grade trip to DC was last week. There were lots of parents walking their kids to the busses when they dropped them off at the middle school at 6 am. Not me. I pulled up to the sidewalk, Marit got out of the car and grabbed her […]

Filed Under: Life at My House Tagged With: 8th grade field trips, dog poop, Washington DC

The Birds Left The Nest

May 11, 2025 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

On April 5th I went out on my back deck to repot some plants. I had left a bag of potting soil out there all winter. When I opened up the bag, a bird flew out of the bag and scared the crap out of me. Upon further investigation I discovered a nest in the […]

Filed Under: Life at My House Tagged With: carolina wren, Mother's Day

Do You Want Company?

April 21, 2025 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Yesterday we went to my parents’ house for the annual Easter egg hunt. Every year my dad hides plastic eggs for the kids out in their back yard — 24 little eggs, and 1 big egg per kid. The little eggs have candy in them, and the big egg has money in it. The eggs […]

Filed Under: Life at My House Tagged With: Easter, Easter with older kids, Simple Easter Celebrations

The Kitchen Is Open

September 2, 2024 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

The kids were with their father for two weeks of vacation the second half of August. It’s the longest stretch of time I’ve ever been away from them. The weeks leading up to this were overwhelming with relatives visiting from Texas and swim meets in Florida and Virginia and a college move in North Carolina. […]

Filed Under: Life at My House Tagged With: cooking with kids, empty nest

The Trip of a Lifetime (Gretchen’s Paris Vacation)

January 9, 2024 by not your average mom 2 Comments

In February of my junior year in high school I went to France on an exchange trip. For some reason I saved the program acceptance letter. I don’t know whose phone numbers are written across the top, and I have no idea who Harry is, but that’s definitely my brother’s handwriting. Fourteen students from my high […]

Filed Under: Life at My House Tagged With: Paris, vacation in Paris

Grad Walk

October 19, 2023 by not your average mom 2 Comments

The school district we live in does something pretty cool every year for the seniors. On one of the last days of school, they participate in the Grad Walk. All the seniors wear their caps and gowns and load onto busses at the high school. From there they go to the elementary school and the […]

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