Always evolving, Never Average
Today was Number 5 and 6’s birthday and also Number 3’s 8th grade moving up ceremony. I’ll get to the birthdays tomorrow. Today was very busy and very tiring and I just wanna go to bed but I am 4 for 4 with 4 posts in 30 days, and I am on a massive action …Read More
I am one of the first people to preach the importance of allowing your kids to experience disappointment and discomfort and failure. To allow them to sit in discomfort without swooping in to rescue them and to make things better. And then today I was presented with one of those situations. I am not presenting …Read More
Yesterday a friend of mine shared this (from Smashed Peas and Carrots) on her Facebook wall: I love this. In theory. And I know it works for some people. Maybe it works for most of the people. But for me it doesn’t work. Not all of it, anyway. We do the sleeping as late as …Read More
Every year when I am asked the question, “What do you want for Mother’s Day?” I say the same things. I want to be able to do all the stuff I used to before I had kids. I want someone else to clean my house. I want some appreciation for everything I do. But I …Read More
When I was a young mom, I compared myself to every other mom out there. My house wasn’t as clean as theirs was, my kids weren’t dressed as nicely as theirs were, I wasn’t as thin as them, as pretty as them, as put together as them, as organized as them… The list went on …Read More
Ten weeks ago, I, along with three other moms, volunteered to direct and produce the 4th grade play at Number 5’s school. We did this not because that’s how it’s always happened, but because this was the first year in as many years as we could remember that there was not going to be a …Read More
This is Number 3’s phone. I’ll get to the significance of the photo in a minute. First, it’s important to know a few things. Number 3 is in 8th grade, and he just got his first phone about two months ago. I believe he may have actually been the last person in his grade to …Read More
This past Saturday I got back from a two-week road trip with the kids. I didn’t plan the way I should have or get organized the way I needed to before we left, and I just kind of fell off the face of the planet here at Not Your Average Mom. But the kids and …Read More
About six weeks ago I volunteered to direct the 4th grade play at Number 5’s school. This play is kind of a rite of passage for the 4th graders. It’s been a thing for years. Number 3 was in the 4th grade play, Number 4 was in the 4th grade play, and Number 5 has …Read More
Are you ready for my next soul searching discovery? You might not like what I’ve discovered. Or maybe you will. I guess it depends on how you look at it. Anyway, here is my very HUGE a-ha moment. You know all those people in your life who have said really shitty things that are mean …Read More
