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Sometimes You Just Gotta Hug It Out.

February 5, 2019 by not your average mom 1 Comment

This morning we had one of those mornings that could have gone in a couple different directions. Up until a little over a year ago, we ate about 99.9% of our meals in the kitchen. The only time we ever ate in the dining room was when we celebrated a birthday or on Thanksgiving. It […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: dining room, giving hugs, hugging it out, yelling

This Is Reality

November 28, 2017 by not your average mom 5 Comments

Last week my parents came up to the house and helped me clean up my disaster of a house on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. My dining room in particular remains a challenge for me to keep neat and uncluttered. My dining room table always ends up as the dumping ground for laundry and inevitably, a […]

Filed Under: In the Kitchen, Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Mental Health, Parenting Tagged With: cooking from scratch, dining room, dining room table, disaster, kitchen, laundry, processed food

A Simple, Affordable and Super Cute Way To Celebrate Your Kid’s Birthday

March 23, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

It’s no secret how I feel about over-the-top birthday parties. I hate them. That doesn’t mean I don’t think everyone deserves some kind of celebration on their birthday. Of course they do! But if you are like me, if you are on a budget, if you have more than one kid, if you have a crazy schedule, if you […]

Filed Under: Moneysavers, Timesavers Tagged With: birthday, diner, dining room, dinner, easy birthday ideas for kids, inexpensive birthday party ideas for kids, party, restaurant, simple birthday celebrations for kids

One Great Catch Can Be A Game Changer

March 12, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

You know how a kid can totally suck at baseball and make like ten errors in one game and start to feel completely hopeless and dejected, but then out of nowhere he can make an amazing catch that no one ever thought was possible? And even with all those errors in one game, that one awesome […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: baseball, catch, dining room, gamechanger, kids, kitchen, meals, Number 6, parenting, parenting win

21 days to establish a new habit, right? WRONG!

January 1, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

We’ve all seen that quote — So that’s just three weeks. Right? Wrong! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!!! That quote — the one that says it takes 21 days to form a new habit — is actually kind of a misquote. A quote that has mutated. Back in the 1950’s, a plastic surgeon named Maxwell Maltz noticed a […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: couch, dining room, dinner, eating, goal, goals, habit, habits, New Years, Resolutions, television

Mom, I can really see a difference!

February 22, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Thoughts on Today: I am halfway through my marathon training. 8 weeks until the Boston Marathon! Today I did my longest training run so far. I ran just under 15 miles. I thought I’d show you something — these are most of my splits (I couldn’t fit the whole thing in one screen shot). They […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: "spaghetti" squash, breakfast, dining room, food, marathon, smoothie, training, weight loss

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