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Because It’s Not An Inspection. It’s A Play Date.

August 23, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I’m not a big fan of play dates. At my house. I’m more than happy to ship my kids off to someone else’s house, but I rarely have kids over to mine. This started for many reasons. First, we are only a couple years out of the napping stage for our youngest. And being kind […]

Filed Under: Funny Stuff, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: facebook, merch by amazon, naps, parites, pl ay dates, summer

The Older I Get, The More Clear Things Become

August 22, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Every year around this time I go through a pretty big decluttering/simplifying stage. And every year my life becomes a tiny bit more manageable. I believe simplifying and streamlining and minimizing is a gradual process for many of us. You can’t slam on the brakes. You’ve gotta slow down gradually. This overwhelming desire to cut […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Mental Health, Moneysavers, Parenting, Timesavers Tagged With: Be More With Less, capsule wardrobe, Courtney Carver, decluttering, facebook, I love jesus but I drink a little, insanity, lunatic, mayhem, minimalism, simplifying

Because Some Of Us Can, And Some Of Us Can’t

July 15, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Back in my smoking days, a long time ago, over twenty years ago, my best friend from high school got married.  At the rehearsal dinner, one of her bridesmaids had quit smoking fairly recently. Like within the past year. She was one of those holier than thou, Oh My God, get away from me, smoking […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: alcohol, alcoholic, beer, blog, facebook, indentity, judge, packs, problem, smokes, sobriety

For Those Of You Struggling With The Transition Into Summer

June 22, 2017 by not your average mom 2 Comments

This first day of summer has snuck up on me. I’m not prepared. I’m not organized. It’s kind of like when Christmas seems so far away, and you know you have plenty of time. And then all of a sudden, BAM. It’s Christmas Eve Day and you haven’t wrapped a single present. You haven’t even […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: birthday, facebook, first day of school, freaking, last day of school, Number 3, practice, present, school, summer, swim

Your Middle Schooler Doesn’t Need A Cell Phone

May 8, 2017 by not your average mom 14 Comments

This morning I received an email from the middle school principal where Number 3 and 4 go to school. In the email, the principal was asking for parents’ help in a number of areas. One was with fidget spinners.  They’ve become quite a distraction at school. I’ll admit I contributed to this problem. Number 3 and […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: cell phones, facebook, Instagram, principal, school, smartphone, snapchat

What I Learned Over Spring Break

April 18, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Last week was our spring break. It was the first spring break in about five years that we haven’t had major money problems. Where we weren’t in danger of losing our house, where the Man from CL&P wasn’t coming to knock on our door on an almost monthly basis, where we weren’t on food stamps, […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: behavior, facebook, fast, kids, Number 7, present, quality, spring break, time

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