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I Am Not Watching The Eclipse With My Kids

August 20, 2017 by not your average mom 7 Comments

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past couple weeks, you know that there’s going to be an eclipse tomorrow (Monday, August  21, 2017) in North America. Here in CT, we will not achieve “totality.” The sun will be approximately 67% obscured at the height of the eclipse. I get that this is […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: consequences, directions, eclipse, glasses, kids, retinas, science, solar eclipse

They Done Good

August 17, 2017 by not your average mom 3 Comments

One of the challenges of being a swimmer is that swimming is not a seasonal sport. It’s a year-round, full-time commitment once you really decide to commit. The  year is broken into two main seasons (in the Northeast, anyway). September through March is known as short course season. That’s because all meets are held in […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: hotel, richmond, seasonal, sport, swimming, taper, Virginia, zones

Next Stop, Richmond, Virginia

August 7, 2017 by not your average mom 3 Comments

Number 3 and 4 first joined the swim team six years ago. They swam on the town team which only swims in the summer and practices in the lake at the town beach. It’s a rinky dink little team, but it was the perfect introduction to swim team for them. They both loved it. Of […]

Filed Under: Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: balance, burnout, friends, life lessons, merch by amazon, season, swim meets last forever, swim team, swimming, zones

A Book Review For Moms Like Me — Behind Closed Doors

August 1, 2017 by not your average mom 3 Comments

It’s time for another book review! First, a disclaimer. I was not an English literature major or anything in college. So don’t be expecting anything professional. As a busy and exhausted mom who still does not have large amounts of uninterrupted time to read anything, my criteria for a good book are as follows: 1) […]

Filed Under: Funny Stuff, Lessons I've Learned, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: B.A. Paris, behind closed doors, book review, chaos, coffee, curse words, goldilocks, merch by amazon, narcolepsy, potty, sex, vacuum

I Love All Americans (Except Maybe The Sick F*ckers Who Stole My Family’s Picture — I Don’t Love Them So Much)

July 24, 2017 by not your average mom 14 Comments

It has come to my attention that my family’s picture is being used by members of a hate group that embraces racism, misogyny, homophobia, and anti-Semitism — basically anything that’s not straight, blond haired and blue eyed. I used to joke that my family was Hitler’s wet dream. It was a joke. Because surely nobody […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: altright, blond, family portrait, hate, Hitler, homophobia, misogyny, picture, portrait, prejudice, racism, religion, United States, wet dream

Because Some Of Us Can, And Some Of Us Can’t

July 15, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Back in my smoking days, a long time ago, over twenty years ago, my best friend from high school got married.  At the rehearsal dinner, one of her bridesmaids had quit smoking fairly recently. Like within the past year. She was one of those holier than thou, Oh My God, get away from me, smoking […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: alcohol, alcoholic, beer, blog, facebook, indentity, judge, packs, problem, smokes, sobriety

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