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Nuts About The Fair

September 5, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Every year since I was a kid, we have gone to the Goshen Fair in Goshen, CT. It’s an agricultural fair held every Labor Day weekend, and it’s about forty-five minutes away from our house. They have animals and tractor/horse/oxen pulls. They’ve got woodcutting and pie eating contests and horseback riding and bunnies and pigs […]

Filed Under: Humor Tagged With: avalanche, baby, cliff hanger, Goshen Fair, merch by amazon, rides, unicorn

End Of Summer Blues

August 29, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

The kids start school tomorrow. We will have a first, second, third, sixth and seventh grader. The girls are all very excited for the first day. The boys? Not so much. Especially Number 6 who has been crying every night for the last three nights when it’s time to go to bed. He has a […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: crying, first day of school, growing up, heartbroken, merch by amazon, Number 6, reality, routine, summer, unicorn

We All Fell In Love On Thursday

August 26, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

The summer before my senior year in high school, my family went on a vacation to Carolina Beach, North Carolina. Six months earlier, my three-year-old brother had died, and this was going to be an opportunity for my family to continue to heal and to start what would become a yearly tradition. For the past […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: Atlantic Ocean, boogie boarding, carolina beach, Compo Beach, cooperation, Jersey Shore, Long Branch Beach, merch by amazon, unicorns, vacation, waves, weather

Because It’s Not An Inspection. It’s A Play Date.

August 23, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I’m not a big fan of play dates. At my house. I’m more than happy to ship my kids off to someone else’s house, but I rarely have kids over to mine. This started for many reasons. First, we are only a couple years out of the napping stage for our youngest. And being kind […]

Filed Under: Funny Stuff, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: facebook, merch by amazon, naps, parites, pl ay dates, summer

20 Things Good Moms Do

August 18, 2017 by not your average mom 4 Comments

I get a couple emails or messages every week from women and moms in particular thanking me for “keeping it real” and for making them “feel normal.” It’s one of the reasons I started this blog. Because when I was in the thick of parenting and we had five kids under the age of  eight […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: brushing, chaos coordinator, discipline, goldfish, merch by amazon, outdoorsy, talents, technology, teenagers, toothbrush

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

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