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She’s Coming Home

November 15, 2020 by not your average mom 10 Comments

Almost three years ago when she was 11 years old, Number 4 discovered a particular boarding school and she set her sights on going there for high school. She didn’t want to go to any boarding school. She wanted to go to that one. Last October we went to visit and have an interview. Knowing […]

Filed Under: Life at My House Tagged With: get comfortable with being uncomfortable, learning to tolerate discomfort, life lessons, sitting through discomfort, tolerating discomfort

Life Lessons For My Boy And For Me

December 10, 2018 by not your average mom 2 Comments

I love swimming. I LOVE IT. I love it for so many reasons. I love it for the friends it has given me and for the places it has taken me. I love it for helping me discover what my strengths are — and also my weaknesses. I love it for teaching me to just […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Parenting Tagged With: life lessons, MIT, swim meets, swim team, swimming

Next Stop, Richmond, Virginia

August 7, 2017 by not your average mom 3 Comments

Number 3 and 4 first joined the swim team six years ago. They swam on the town team which only swims in the summer and practices in the lake at the town beach. It’s a rinky dink little team, but it was the perfect introduction to swim team for them. They both loved it. Of […]

Filed Under: Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: balance, burnout, friends, life lessons, merch by amazon, season, swim meets last forever, swim team, swimming, zones

10 Lessons From Vacation To Apply To Your Everyday Life

August 22, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I just got back from a two week vacation in North Carolina. And it was the first vacation since we’ve had kids where I had the opportunity to actually vacate real life. Not for long.  A vacation with kids isn’t exactly a vacation. It’s more of a relocation. But there were no major catastrophes. Nobody […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body, Travel Tagged With: beach, benefits of simplfying, decluttering, family beach vacations, family vacations, how clutter affects your life, lessons, life lessons, simplifying, ten, vacation

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