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My Baby Is Not Such A Baby Anymore

October 7, 2019 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Number 7 turned eight years old on Saturday. She asked for: cake ice cream seaweed (the kind you eat) Nutri grain bars a Lego set a watch a scooter with nothing girly on it and a dog She got a cake (decorated by Number 4) and ice cream, seaweed and Nutri grain bars (she tried […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting, Uncategorized Tagged With: birthday presents for kids, birthdays, scooters

My Grandma

September 2, 2019 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Today is my grandma’s birthday. I’ve been thinking about her a lot in the last twenty-four hours since the Skillet Throw and knowing it was her birthday the next day. My grandma was not perfect. She was kinda judgmental and a little bit of a racist in a super naive and ignorant way. But she […]

Filed Under: Funny Stuff, Lessons I've Learned, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: birthdays, grandma, Grandmothers, happy birthday

Fastest Fourteen Years Ever

June 22, 2019 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Fourteen years and six months ago after polishing off a bottle of wine and a pack of cigarettes by myself, I took a pregnancy test. I have no idea what prompted me to do this or why I even had a pregnancy test at home in the first place. It was positive. I was drunk […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: birthdays, fourteen-year-old, happy birthday

A Simple 7th Birthday Celebration

October 7, 2018 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

It was Number 7’s birthday on Friday. She turned seven years old. Number 7 has the latest birthday of all the kids, so she is always waiting and waiting and waiting AND WAITING for her big day to come. Everyone who knows me knows I have an issue with over-the-top birthday celebrations for kids for […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: birthday gifts for kids, birthdays, children's birthday celebrations, kids' birthday parties

A (12th and 49th) Birthday Adventure

September 22, 2018 by not your average mom 1 Comment

On Number 4’s 7th birthday we started a birthday tradition. Instead of getting a bunch of stuff, Number 4 and I had a birthday experience. We had very little money at the time, and I contacted a local salon and they offered to give us complimentary manicures and pedicures and Number 4 got her hair […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: birthday adventures, birthday experiences, birthdays, concerts, Ed Sheeran Concerts, surprises

Are You One? Are You Two? Are You Three?…

September 18, 2018 by not your average mom 5 Comments

I will often greet my kids with a “How is my favorite third grader today?” Or a “How is my favorite eight and under swimmer?” On the kids’ birthdays, when I wake them up in the morning or when they come downstairs I say, “How is my favorite [however many]-year-old?” Of course they love that […]

Filed Under: Humor Tagged With: birthday celebrations, birthdays, mom birthdays, remembering birthdays

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