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My First Night

August 8, 2020 by not your average mom 5 Comments

***NOTE FROM SUSIE — trying something new tonight… I might have a book in me. Here’s a chapter.  What do you think?*** We told the kids about the divorce the Friday night before. All the details had yet to be worked out, and we were all still living in the same house. One thing we […]

Filed Under: Life at My House Tagged With: divorce, freedom, independence, life after divorce

Discipline = Freedom

August 18, 2018 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

this post contains amazon affiliate links which, should you click on them, may give me a small affiliate commission at no extra cost to you Last week a friend of mine sent me a private message asking me if I listened to audio books. Which, up until about five minutes after I read her message, […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting Tagged With: discipline equals freedom, Extreme Ownership, freedom, Jocko Willink, Navy Seals, Task Force Bruiser

Remember That Time At Costco?

August 15, 2017 by not your average mom 6 Comments

We got back from our trip to Richmond on Sunday night. After being gone for six days, there wasn’t much food in the house. Yesterday (Monday) I had plans to get caught up on laundry, clean some stuff up and get to the grocery store, but as so often happens, things did not run completely […]

Filed Under: Funny Stuff, Humor, Parenting Tagged With: caffeine chaos and curse words, car, changing station, chaos and curse words, Costco, food court, freedom, ice cream, Number 7, pepsi, sentimental

I live in the Land Of The Free, and that’s the way I’m going to parent.

July 4, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

This morning I went for a run. And being the 4th of July, Independence Day, I was thinking about this holiday. I was thinking about how one of the greatest things about this country is that we have freedom. And then as I was running I started thinking about how, in this country where we have […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: 4th of July, attendance, bikini, cell phone, defensive, family, freedom, hiking, hot dog, independence day, neighbor, politician, school, suburban, teachers, ticks

Moving toward simple.

June 3, 2015 by not your average mom 9 Comments

On Mother’s Day I declared that I was going to start getting rid of shit. Because we just have too much stuff. That’s when I was introduced to the Fly Lady. She sends an assload of emails. But she has really helped me to change the way I look at getting stuff done around the […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: brain, cable, clutter, complicated, declutter, freedom, living the simple life, simplicity, simplify, television, TV, unclutter

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