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Almost 50, A Little Overweight, And Rocking A Bikini On Vacation

August 12, 2019 by not your average mom 4 Comments

I am in North Carolina on vacation with my kids. It is my favorite place in the world. I have been coming here since I was in high school. That was over thirty years ago. I am about 40 pounds heavier than I was back in high school and college and pre-kids. I am comfortable […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: body confidence, older women and bikinis, summer beach vacations

Getting Into A Groove

August 7, 2019 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

It has taken me a couple days to get into a groove on vacation. It’s not easy to manage the kids and also do some things for myself, but we have fallen into a nice routine. The kids really have been very good. I wake up every morning and do yoga. Then I go for […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Sound Mind Sound Body

I’m Going On Vacation Tomorrow and I CAN’T WAIT

August 3, 2019 by not your average mom 6 Comments

The last three weeks of my life have been extremely overscheduled. This is due to a whole bunch of factors I won’t bore you with, but many — okay… most — of those factors were of my own doing. Taking on too much being one of them. But also, tomorrow morning I am leaving for […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: beach vacations, summer vacation, vacation

We All Get The Same 24 Hours

July 29, 2019 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Number 3, 4 and 5 had a big 3-day swim meet this weekend. For Number 3, it was actually a 4-day swim meet. It’s called Age Group Championships which is a meet you need certain times to qualify for. It’s like state championships for kids who are fourteen years old and younger. The way the […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Mental Health, Parenting, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: exercise, finding time to exercise, making time to exercise, self care

Three Things That Happened Immediately After I Surrendered

July 16, 2019 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Yesterday, after a lot of introspection over the weekend, I had a revelation. This revelation was partly due to me doing some work on my thoughts but it was also divine intervention. The Universe was like, SUSIE. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. HELLO!!! WHY AREN’T YOU GETTING THIS??? And so the Universe intervened through a friend of […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: let go and let God, surrender, the universe

It’s Time To Surrender

July 15, 2019 by not your average mom 9 Comments

On Friday I lost it on the kids. I yelled. I swore. I threatened. I completely panicked. There are lots of reasons I arrived at this point on Friday. And I did a lot of thinking over the weekend. Then this morning a friend of mine posted something on Facebook. She said, I was at a meeting […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Mental Health, Parenting, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: asking for help, help, submission, surrender

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