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We All Need Help Sometimes

August 2, 2022 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

My cousin Amy’s husband died last Friday. It was completely unexpected and she was not at all prepared for something like this. I wouldn’t have been prepared for something like this either. In an instant, Amy became a single mom to two teenage girls, and she needed to find a new home for the three […]

Filed Under: Life at My House Tagged With: accepting help, asking for help

A Clean Slate

February 7, 2020 by not your average mom 3 Comments

I spread myself way too thin in the last couple months, and it resulted in me just barely keeping my head above water. And when I say barely, I’m not exaggerating. My house fell into disarray. My parents could see I was close to drowning. So they came up to the house today and helped […]

Filed Under: Life at My House, Mental Health Tagged With: accepting help, asking for help, help

It’s Time To Surrender

July 15, 2019 by not your average mom 9 Comments

On Friday I lost it on the kids. I yelled. I swore. I threatened. I completely panicked. There are lots of reasons I arrived at this point on Friday. And I did a lot of thinking over the weekend. Then this morning a friend of mine posted something on Facebook. She said, I was at a meeting […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Mental Health, Parenting, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: asking for help, help, submission, surrender

Because Who Couldn’t Use A Feel Good Friday?

March 24, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I get quite a few emails from readers. Every once in a while, one of those emails will turn into a back and forth conversation that unexpectedly turns into a friendship. And as a result, I have a couple Facebook friends who I “met” through the blog. This happened a couple years ago with this really […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: accepting help, asking for help, community, garden, getting help, help, random acts of kindness

Should I take it?

July 16, 2016 by not your average mom 9 Comments

Yesterday morning I had a conversation with a mom who I have met briefly before but who I don’t really know at all. I had never really said more than just hello to her. She is an elementary school teacher who has six kids, and when we realized how much we had in common and we […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: accepting help, asking for help

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~Norman Vincent Peale

December 25, 2014 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Dear Everybody, I just want to share a little about the last twenty four hours. I just want to say thank you. We had an amazing Christmas, and it was because of you. Last night on Christmas Eve, I was able to give the kids Christmas pajamas. The ones that Numbers 3 through 7 are wearing […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: asking for help, Christmas, Peace, the spirit of Christmas, tis better to give than to receive

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