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Do Your Kids Remember What They Got for Christmas Five Years Ago?

November 5, 2016 by not your average mom 14 Comments

A couple days ago a friend of mine shared an article on Facebook entitled  It Turns Out That Traveling Makes Us Far Happier Than Any Material Wealth Ever Does. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. It’s partly because our financial situation has improved, and so now being able to travel at least a […]

Filed Under: Moneysavers, Parenting Tagged With: birthday, Christmas, experiences, gifts, polar express, presents, Santa, stuff, traveling

The Four Gift Rule (And The Story Of THE ROBES)

October 13, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I was going to wait until closer to Thanksgiving to write about this, but after what happened yesterday, I’d like to share it today. If you follow me on Facebook, then you may have already seen this post from yesterday (had to do three screenshots because it’s long — but funny!):     So the kids […]

Filed Under: Humor, Moneysavers, Parenting Tagged With: Christmas, clutter, declutter, four gift rule, gifts, presents, the robes

Something You Want, Something You Need, Something To Wear, And Something To Read

November 8, 2015 by not your average mom 11 Comments

I grew up in a small, affluent town in Connecticut. Most of my friends had huge houses and their parents drove BMWs or Mercedes or Jaguars. Some of the kids even drove those kinds of cars. They had pools and tennis courts and horses and they belonged to country clubs and riding clubs and gun […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Christmas, Christmas gifts, clutter, decluttering, gifts, meltdowns, presents, Santa, Shopping, something you want something you need something you wear and something your read, the life changing magic of tidying up

The Universal Birthday Party

October 19, 2012 by not your average mom 3 Comments

If you have a child in elementary school, then you have most likely just entered birthday party hell. Between Numbers 5, 6, and 7, I know that for the next 10 months, we will be at Chuck E. Cheese, or Fun Factor, or Gymnastics Spectrum, or a bowling alley or some other germ-ridden hell hole […]

Filed Under: Humor Tagged With: birthday, Chuck E. Cheese, gifts, goodie bag, party, presents, swim meets

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