• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Not Your Average Mom

Not Your Average Mom

Always evolving.

  • Blog
  • Home
  • About

Mother's Day

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

May 14, 2017 by not your average mom 3 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

What Your Wife Wants For Her Birthday (hint: some effort required)

September 18, 2016 by not your average mom 8 Comments

If you follow me on Facebook, you may know it’s my 12th wedding anniversary today. It’s also my 47th birthday today. Yes. I got married on my 35th birthday. Which was like the dumbest thing ever. Because somehow, my husband is under the impression that I’m totally okay with a joint birthday/anniversary celebration.’ Actually, I […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: birthdays, cleaning lady, Franzi, kids, Mother's Day, parites

I’m not ready to be a mother.

May 8, 2016 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Number 7 loves her blankie. Four four and a half years, it has gone with her wherever she goes. To country fairs. To a UCONN swim meet. In the crib while chillin’ with her big brother. Hanging with these two or with Mom.   Watching the Memorial Day Parade. Goofing around with Number 4. In bed, of course. […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: blankies, Mother's Day, Number7

What Moms REALLY Want For Mother’s Day

April 26, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Mother’s Day is approaching. If you have school age children and are wondering what it is your wife or the mother of your children would really love for Mother’s Day, I can help you. But first, let’s make it clear that the majority of moms don’t expect anything for Mother’s Day. They are moms because they […]

Filed Under: Moneysavers Tagged With: gifts for moms, Mother's Day, the best mother's day gifts for moms with young children, what moms want for mother's day

What sleeping in and breakfast in bed on Mother’s Day REALLY looks like.

May 11, 2014 by not your average mom 3 Comments

Last night the kids told me they were going to let me sleep in and make me breakfast in bed for Mother’s Day. They should have said “sleep in.” Sleeping in on Mother’s Day does not look like this: Not in this house, anyway. It looks like this: 6:24 a.m. IT’S HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!! IT’S […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: breakfast in bed, Mother's Day, sleeping in

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Looking for a particular post?

Follow Me!

Categories

  • Exercise
  • Food
  • Funny Stuff
  • Lessons I've Learned
  • Life at My House
  • Mental Health
  • Parenting
  • Self Care

  • Home
  • About
  • Blog Posts
  • Privacy Policy