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This is what all birthdays should be like.

September 18, 2014 by not your average mom 3 Comments

Yesterday was Number 4’s birthday. If you remember last year, I suprised her with a special day. Yesterday she asked me if we were going to have another spa day and if I was going to pick her up early. I told her that I wasn’t. That we would celebrate when she got home. She […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: birthdays, gratitude, kids' birthdays, Number 4

5 days a challenge doth not make. A REAL Positivity Challenge.

September 3, 2014 by not your average mom 5 Comments

If you are on Facebook, then you know there is this Positivity Challenge circulating around. I got nominated for it about a week ago, and I haven’t done anything about it yet. Because I’ve been thinking. The rules of the challenge are to post three positive things and nominate three other people to do the same, […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: complaining, gratitude, gratitude challenge, positivity challenge

He said the L-word. Not the one you think.

May 27, 2014 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Number 3 through 7 are all in bedrooms on the second floor. I won’t open their windows because that is a guarantee that one or more of them will either be dangling out of one of them or plummeting to his or her death. With the weather getting warmer, it’s been a little on the […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: gratitude

All I really need to know I learned from a Costco receipt.

December 5, 2013 by not your average mom 6 Comments

I’ve been a bitch to my husband again. And again, don’t get me wrong, it’s not for nothing. He deserved it a little bit, but I need to get over it. I haven’t really spoken to him, unless it was absolutely necessary in about 4 days. I fell off the sleeping-in-the-bed wagon a little while […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: appreciation, Costco receipts, gratitude

I told her it was HER “special day.” But I think it really was mine.

August 25, 2013 by not your average mom 14 Comments

People often say to me, I don’t know how you do it with 7 kids. And to be honest, sometimes I don’t either. When I found out I was pregnant with Number 6, I was a little panicked. Actually, a lot panicked. Especially when he started out as twins. It wasn’t exactly planned. The day after I had […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: cast, gratitude, multiple children, Number 4, Number 6, special day

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