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Being the older mom. I’m okay with it.

December 22, 2015 by not your average mom 7 Comments

I have always been the “older” mom. I gave birth to Number 3 when I was thirty-five. Number 4 the day before my thirty-seventh birthday. Number 5 three months before I turned forty. Number 6 three months before I turned forty-one. And Number 7 when I was forty-two. And now, at forty-six, I am definitely […]

Filed Under: Funny Stuff, Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting Tagged With: older moms

I’m not the sad fat person on the left.

May 23, 2015 by not your average mom 5 Comments

So one of my goals is to help women, and moms in particular, to reclaim their inner badass. I think it’s so easy to lose this once you have kids. Initially, it’s kind of required. You need to make it all about the baby in the first few months. But sometimes the months turn to […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: Not Your Average Fitness Course, setting an example for your children, weight loss e-courses

Ten Things You Can Do To Maintain Your Sanity And Improve Your Chances Of Raising A Productive, Independent, and Responsible Human Being

March 25, 2015 by not your average mom 11 Comments

There are no guarantees in life. And there are certainly no guarantees in parenting. But now that we are three and a half years into child Number 7, I think I’ve gotten some of the kinks worked out. And since most of us aren’t going to have seven chances to get it right, I thought […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Mental Health, Parenting Tagged With: comparing, facebook, how to survive parenting, naps, parenting, responsibilities, rules for parenting, schedule, sleep

Dear Lost

January 6, 2015 by not your average mom 27 Comments

The other day I received a message on the Facebook page from a reader.  I asked her if I could publish it anonymously, and write my response in a post. Because I don’t think she is alone. At all. Here is what she wrote (published with permission): Today I read your “Have you moved out […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: advice, lost, motherhood

I’m thinking big picture.

January 1, 2015 by not your average mom 2 Comments

I’ve been thinking about resolutions. About which ones I’d like to make. Or whether I want to make any at all. I think I do. But I want to change the way I think about them. I’m not calling them resolutions. Instead, I’m setting goals for myself this year. I think when we make resolutions, there […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: goal setting, New Year's Resolutions, resolutions for 2015

Dear Exasperated Mom

November 25, 2014 by not your average mom 15 Comments

Dear Exasperated Mom, I know how you feel. You are tired. Tired of the monotony. Tired of your own version of Groundhog Day. Tired of the seat belts and the sippy cups and the diapers and the marker on the wall and the tantrums and the Caillou and the food on the floor, and now that […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting, Self Care Tagged With: monotony of motherhood, The days go slow but the years go fast, time flies

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