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A Wedding To Remember

October 28, 2018 by not your average mom 6 Comments

Seven years ago I was in desperate need of a babysitter, and I put an ad out on Sittercity.com. I didn’t really expect anything to come from it, but I figured it was worth a shot. That one decision led to an eventual knock on our door from a beautiful, smart, funny, ballsy, super cool […]

Filed Under: Funny Stuff, Humor, Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: babysitters, CV Rich Mansion, flower girls, weddings

Mom, You Look AMAZING! (which dress did I pick?)

October 26, 2018 by not your average mom 9 Comments

Here on the blog, CCB is short for Cool College Babysitter. When I first started writing the blog, CCB was our babysitter. Number 7 wasn’t even born when she started babysitting. Now she’s all grown up. And tomorrow she’s getting married. More to come on that tomorrow or Sunday. If you follow me on Facebook, […]

Filed Under: Humor, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: babysitters, keeping it real, spanx, wedding dresses, weddings

Battle of the Sexes

March 21, 2014 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Last week I went out for a few beers with these three: That’s CCB and two of her buddies, Doc and Karl. Doc is in grad school and Karl is about to graduate from college. They are home for Spring Break. Doc and Karl were both talking a bunch of trash to CCB about taking […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: babysitters, CCB

One part tough. Two parts irresistible.

February 5, 2014 by not your average mom 4 Comments

Contrary to what you may think after reading yesterday’s post, I liked the Alice I interviewed on Monday. A lot. And I’m really looking for much more than an Alice. The job I posted was entitled ” looking for nanny/personal assistant/housekeeper.” I made it clear that it wasn’t strictly watching the kids. Or cleaning. Or running […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: Alice, babysitters, I guess it's hard not to love us, nannies

They’re not going to make this easy for me.

February 4, 2014 by not your average mom 6 Comments

Last week I started the search to find my Alice. I interviewed my first candidate yesterday. On paper, she seemed perfect. Mid fifties, mother of two grown girls, used to run a daycare out of her home… I found her on Sittercity. We’ve had luck there before. We’ve also met a couple of winners from that […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: Alice from the Brady Bunch, babysitters, Nanny 911

She’s no Mary Poppins, that’s for sure.

January 21, 2014 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I still don’t totally know how to use my iPad. But I know how to use it to shut my kids up. They would stare at that thing and play games on it all day long if I allowed them to. I used to sit in judgement of parents who bought children under the age […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: babysitters, iPads, Siri

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