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Don’t Wait For Your Family To Give You A Mother’s Day Gift

May 14, 2017 by not your average mom 2 Comments

On Mother’s Day,  Facebook is flooded with articles of What Moms Really Want For Mother’s Day. For most of us, it’s nothing major.  It’s a day where we don’t have to take care of anyone else. Where we can sleep and have some alone time. An opportunity to recharge. But for many of us, it’s […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: family, gymnastics, hotel, massage, mom, Mother's Day, Mother's Day gifts, presents

Not Your Average T-Shirts

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

Something exciting happened for me recently… I was accepted into Amazon’s Merch By Amazon program. What does that mean? It means I can add t-shirt designer to my resume! As of right now, I have seven different t-shirt designs available. Check them out! (click on t-shirt description for more details) For The Mom With The […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: Amazon, i run on coffee chaos and the occasional curse word, i work out to burn off the crazy, merch by amazon, mom, Mother's Day, one load of laundry away from a meltdown, sleep eat drive kids to sports repeat, sports, sprots, t-shirt, t-shirts, tshirt

My parenting idol is an unwed mother who got knocked up when she was sixteen years old.

January 20, 2017 by not your average mom 3 Comments

I’ve discovered why I love Gilmore Girls so much. And I’ll be honest. It took me a little while to get to this point. To the point of loving the show so much that I now feel the need to pace myself and ration episodes because I know I’m gonna be really depressed when I’ve watched […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Parenting Tagged With: bento box, Common core, declutter, Gilmore Girls, husband, married, mom, organized, parenting

20 Things You Can Do To Be a Great Parent

October 28, 2016 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Yesterday I came across this question when I was wasting time on Facebook: “I’m going to be a first-time dad in a few weeks… I’m quite nervous! Does anyone have some helpful tips on how I can be a great dad? “ About a million things immediately popped into my head. It doesn’t matter whether you […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: change, consistency, dad, exercise, father, great, hugs, mistakes, mom, mother, parent, priority, schedule

Five Frugal Things

October 25, 2016 by not your average mom 3 Comments

We are officially out of foreclosure now. Hallelujah! And I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately. I can’t speak for everyone else who has been in our shoes, but I  can say for sure that the last four years were eye opening for me, and they seriously changed me. I am certainly a different […]

Filed Under: Timesavers, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: bankruptcy, debt, five frugal things, foreclosure, laptop, mom, money, TV

You Are Not The Only Mom

July 21, 2016 by not your average mom 4 Comments

It’s about the halfway point of summer vacation here in CT. But if you are anything like me, you are way more than halfway to your breaking point, and you are starting to count down the days until school begins. You don’t really want summer to be over. Not the good parts of it. But boy do […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: countdown, mom, mom fails, summer, the only mom

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