Yesterday I wrote this post about how I was going to make an effort to start each day off by complimenting the kids and my husband every morning after reading this article about a teacher whose students are thriving since he started doing the same thing in his classroom every day. Today was kind of crazy, […]
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The Perfect Gift
A few days ago there was a video circulating around Facebook of a teacher who starts off every day complimenting his students one by one. In his first year of teaching, the teacher did this on certain days, like on “Toast Tuesday.” He said that on those days, there was a noticeable difference in how his […]
One of the best things I did this year was decide to get dressed.
About six weeks ago, I joined this style challenge called Get Your Pretty On. It’s basically Garanimals for adults. A capsule wardrobe. You know, a few mix and match pieces that form lots of different looks. Back in the day, I was a total Glamour DO, but after the kids and becoming a mom, and the […]
We could all use 26 Days of Kindness right now.
Sometimes when serious things are going on in the world around me I wonder, should I be writing about this? On September 11, should I be writing something serious? On Veterans Day and Memorial Day should the posts I write have something to do with those holidays? Because this started as a humor blog. It […]
The Christmas Angels are already making appearances.
Last week I wrote a post about how we are limiting the kids’ Christmas gifts this year to four things: something they want, something they need, something to wear, and something to read. And then I wrote about how after having a discussion with the kids, Number 4 thought about it and asked for “something […]
The Top 16
Wanna help Not Your Average Mom out? If you are doing holiday shopping this year on Amazon, please click on that link over there on the right in the sidebar to do it (or down at the bottom of this post if you are on your phone). It costs you nothing extra but gives me […]
