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54 Things I Learned in my 54th Year: #50 – I’m Ready to Live Like A Grandma

October 15, 2023 by not your average mom 1 Comment

This past summer a country club pool director position opened up at a club about 35 minutes from my house, and I decided to give it a go. The club had cleaned out its entire pool staff, and not only was I was able to hand pick my lifeguard staff, but Kristofer and Ingrid were […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned Tagged With: back roads, grandparents, slowing down

My Parents Know How To Rock The Koselig

December 21, 2019 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I was doing some Christmas shopping today, and I picked up a couple things for my parents to give to the kids. They live about a half hour from me — they still live in the house I grew up in — and I was shopping down in their neck of the woods, so I […]

Filed Under: Life at My House Tagged With: Christmas decorations, christmas shopping, grandparents, koselig

Grandparent Goals

January 28, 2019 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Just in case you were feeling like you didn’t have your shit together, let me take this opportunity to make you feel not so alone. Every year I have a hard time taking the Christmas tree down and putting the decorations away. I just love my house when it’s decorated for the holidays, and I basically […]

Filed Under: Humor, Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting, Timesavers Tagged With: Christmas chicken, Christmas decorations, grandparent goals, grandparents

Because Sitting Is The New Cancer

July 15, 2018 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Anyone who knows me knows that I like competition. In particular, I like any sort of athletic competition. I’ve been like that since I was a kid. I like sports and I like games. I like setting goals for myself and I like pushing myself and I like a challenge. So I work out because […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: active lifestyles, benefits of exercise, grandparents, habits, online fitness courses, Papa, staying active

Grammy And Papa’s House

May 17, 2018 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

We are on day two of no power and day two of no school since a tornado or macroburst or whatever the heck it was came through and completely destroyed our town. It will still be a while before power is restored to our town, so we are at my parents’ indefinitely. And that’s fine […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: extended family, grandparents, power outage, rush hour commute, swim team

Pulling The Grammy And Papa Card

November 16, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Last week Number 7 made a Christmas list in her journal. It was so cute I had to take a picture: I was going to decipher it for you, but I’ll let you try to figure it out on your own: Stuff ror krismis i Pad 2. FijiT spinr 2. fijit Qub A water  Bottle. […]

Filed Under: Humor Tagged With: books, Christmas, christmas list, fidget spinner, four gift rule, grandparents, Santa

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