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A Surprise (Mini) Vacation

August 6, 2018 by not your average mom 4 Comments

My happy place is Carolina Beach, North Carolina. My family went there for the first time the summer before my senior year in high school and then it became a yearly tradition. I’ve gone down there with my parents and my brother and then with my husband and the kids about 25 out of the […]

Filed Under: Parenting, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: beach, Jersey Shore Beaches, summer vacation, Wildwood Crest

The Day I’ve Been Waiting Thirteen Years For Finally Happened Last Tuesday

July 14, 2018 by not your average mom 1 Comment

We don’t have any swim practices or commitments at all on Tuesdays, so on our summer calendar, Tuesday is day trip day. Our first Tuesday day trip was to Kent Falls last week. While most of us would look back on our trip to Kent Falls and say we had fun, there was lots of […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Parenting, Travel Tagged With: beach, beach days, beaches in CT, summer, summer vacation, taking kids to the beach

Experiences Over Stuff

September 22, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

If you’ve been around here a few years, you know how I feel about birthday parties for kids. I don’t love them. You also know that I’m on a major quest to reduce the amount of stuff we have here in our house. This has led to a birthday tradition with Number 4 where she […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: beach, birthdays, experience, lobster roll, Number 4, stuff, Walnut Beach

Last Day, First Day

June 21, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Last day of school, summer is here. Last day of my baby’s kindergarten year. Last day packing lunches and taking the bus. Last day for alarm clocks and making a fuss. Last day for ripping the brush through the hair, and frantically searching for something to wear. Last day of forgetting to send in the […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: beach, Common core, first, kindergarten, lake, last, pajama, party, school, snakc, socks, summer

Seven Things You Can Do To Make Your Morning Routine Run More Smoothly

April 17, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Last week the kids were off from school for spring break, and then yesterday was Easter. We had a great “staycation” full of mini adventures. The first five days of break we went geocaching, visited The Elephant’s Trunk Flea Market, went to a local creamery for ice cream, went to the beach, and went to […]

Filed Under: Parenting, Timesavers Tagged With: beach, braid, bus, how to reduce school morning chaos, meltdown, morning, outfits, planning, routine, streamilining your morning routine

10 Lessons From Vacation To Apply To Your Everyday Life

August 22, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I just got back from a two week vacation in North Carolina. And it was the first vacation since we’ve had kids where I had the opportunity to actually vacate real life. Not for long.  A vacation with kids isn’t exactly a vacation. It’s more of a relocation. But there were no major catastrophes. Nobody […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body, Travel Tagged With: beach, benefits of simplfying, decluttering, family beach vacations, family vacations, how clutter affects your life, lessons, life lessons, simplifying, ten, vacation

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