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Day 13: Today Was Awesome

March 25, 2020 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Today was the kind of day I envisioned when I first became a parent. It is the first day I’ve had like this in a very long time. Like maybe ever, actually. We had no meltdowns. ZERO. ZERO!!! We had a couple disagreements, but other than that, the kids were awesome. I was able to […]

Filed Under: Life at My House, Parenting, Self Care Tagged With: family dinners, meal planning, slowing down

I’m Bringing Back Sunday Dinner

October 27, 2019 by not your average mom 4 Comments

With the craziness of our weeknights, I really want to bring back the Sunday night dinner whenever I can. Tonight I did. I had planned out dinners for the week last Monday, and I had everything I needed already. Here’s what was on the menu tonight: Roast chicken: (I used this recipe from Allrecipes.com. Everyone […]

Filed Under: Food, In the Kitchen, Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting, Self Care Tagged With: family dinners, Sunday night dinners

Twenty-Six Days

December 19, 2017 by not your average mom 3 Comments

The biggest gift I am giving my family this year for Christmas wasn’t purchased in a store. It wasn’t ordered online. It wasn’t even anything they asked for. Not directly, anyway. But now that I’ve given them this gift, I realize it was something they wanted. And something they needed. In fact, it was something […]

Filed Under: In the Kitchen, Parenting Tagged With: breakfast, dining room table, dinner, family dinners, lunch, snack

Operation Organization. The gift that keeps on giving.

November 19, 2013 by not your average mom 3 Comments

Since Operation Organization, we have been eating dinner in the dining room on a regular basis. On Sunday night, we had a really nice family dinner. One by one, everyone trickled out of the room after they were done eating until it was just Number 6 left sitting there next to me at the table. […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: family dinners

It’s time to repair my relationship with my dining room.

November 12, 2013 by not your average mom 8 Comments

We usually eat dinner in the kitchen, but there’s no room for a table, so it looks something like this every night: That picture was taken pre-Number 7, so it’s even more crowded in there now. My husband and I usually just stand somewhere in the room while the kids eat. It kind of sucks. […]

Filed Under: In the Kitchen Tagged With: decluttering, family dinners, organizing

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