I finalized my divorce in December 2020, and I moved into a new place in February 2021. I was married for sixteen years. In that time I became a step mom to two step sons, gave birth to five kids, and completely lost track of who I was. The decision to leave my house was […]
Life at My House
Our New Toothbrush System
Yesterday I came home to this in my bathroom: Someone had gotten their hands on the label maker. Okay, now in order to tell the rest of this story I need to rewind. Last week I shared on the Not Your Average Mom FB Page that we had a slight issue with toothbrushes… In a […]
Storm
Number 7 has been asking for a dog for a long time. For like three or four years. She REALLY wants a dog. As evidenced by her 2019 Christmas List. For every birthday and every Christmas Number 7 asked for a dog. Back in 2017 when she started asking, I told her it wasn’t gonna […]
The Puzzles
I love puzzles. I didn’t really discover this until about five months ago. A little background first… Before I got divorced when I was still living in the old house, one of the things I really wanted was a puzzle table. It was right when the pandemic hit and in the middle of my divorce […]
It’s What We Did For Each Other
I don’t know about you guys, but this was a pretty challenging summer for me, and it followed and extremely challenging 18 months. Getting divorced in the middle of a pandemic while homeschooling two of the kids and moving to a new house was, um… Well it fucking sucked. One of the things keeping me […]
I’m Worth It.
I used to hate the process of taking a shower. I only looked at it as a waste of really valuable time. Time I could spend doing other stuff. I don’t feel this way anymore. That’s because I’ve totally changed my thinking around taking a shower. Because you know what? I love the feeling of […]