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Happy Birthday Papa

January 20, 2023 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Happy 78th Birthday to the GOAT. The Greatest Dad of All Time. And the Greatest Grandpa of All Time. Whether we are on vacation or at a water park or on a road trip or giving hugs or playing cards or celebrating a new house or helping a grandson get his license or watching fireworks […]

Filed Under: Life at My House Tagged With: grandfathers, grandpas, happy birthday

Number 4 Is A Teenager

September 20, 2019 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Number 4’s birthday is the day before mine. Hers is on September 17th and mine is the 18th. We started a birthday tradition kind of by accident on Number 4’s 7th birthday. And ever since then, we’ve had a birthday “experience” together. She skips school for the day and we do something fun. This year […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: birthday experiences, Brandy Melville, Broadway, happy birthday, Number 4, NYC shopping

My Grandma

September 2, 2019 by not your average mom 3 Comments

Today is my grandma’s birthday. I’ve been thinking about her a lot in the last twenty-four hours since the Skillet Throw and knowing it was her birthday the next day. My grandma was not perfect. She was kinda judgmental and a little bit of a racist in a super naive and ignorant way. But she […]

Filed Under: Funny Stuff, Lessons I've Learned, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: birthdays, grandma, Grandmothers, happy birthday

Fastest Fourteen Years Ever

June 22, 2019 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Fourteen years and six months ago after polishing off a bottle of wine and a pack of cigarettes by myself, I took a pregnancy test. I have no idea what prompted me to do this or why I even had a pregnancy test at home in the first place. It was positive. I was drunk […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: birthdays, fourteen-year-old, happy birthday

Happy Birthday. Plain and Simple.

June 18, 2013 by not your average mom 8 Comments

Yesterday was Number 5’s birthday. And it was Number 6’s birthday. We didn’t have a big party. But we did celebrate. We had ice cream cones for lunch. In our bathing suits. And we made a mess. And we were psyched. We went for a swim. Although playing in the dirty water that backwashed out […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: Birhtday cake, happy birthday, ice cream cones

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