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Thank God It’s Not The Big C

October 14, 2023 by not your average mom 3 Comments

Last Tuesday I woke up around 1 am with excruciating abdominal pain. Within ten minutes I was completely drenched with sweat from head to toe, writhing around in agony on my bathroom floor. I have never in my life experienced pain like that. It was horrible. The pain subsided somewhat, but definitely didn’t disappear. I […]

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A Perfect 18th Birthday

June 28, 2023 by not your average mom 6 Comments

If you’ve been around here since the beginning, you know how I feel about birthday parties for kids. I’m not a fan of over-the-top parties. I wrote some pretty opinionated posts about kid parties back in the day. I still have the same opinion. I like simple birthday parties. Only now I don’t feel the […]

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Senior Year

June 15, 2023 by not your average mom 2 Comments

The end of the school year is no joke for anyone. There are parties and concerts and ceremonies and all the regular end-of-the-year hoopla. Senior year is a whole different story. I was not sufficiently prepared for senior year. Like not even close. There are so many extra things that need to be done. They […]

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Headphones

May 2, 2023 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Even though there are less than seven years separating my youngest and my oldest, I still look at Kristofer and Ingrid as the older kids and Gretchen, Kasen and Marit as the little guys. None of them are little anymore. Especially Kasen, who is closing in on his 13th birthday. Kasen is five years younger […]

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My Friend Brooke

February 19, 2023 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Many many years ago, I was running an online fitness course, and a woman named Brooke joined the program. She was a single mom living in Florida and had two very young twin boys. She was pretty gung ho for about two weeks, and then life became extra lifey, and she kinda fell off the […]

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Slow and Steady Wins the Race

February 3, 2023 by not your average mom 3 Comments

One of my current weekly goals is 10 minutes of strength training 5x/week. This week I won’t hit that – I’m 1/5 so far but will probably finish at 3/7 days this week. I have eight sets of dumbbells in my room: 3lbs, 5 lbs, 8 lbs, 10 lbs, 12 lbs, 15 lbs, 20lbs and […]

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