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Our Perfect Vacation

August 30, 2019 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Carolina Beach, North Carolina has been a place of healing for me since I was 16 years old. That’s how old I was the first time my family went there for a vacation. It was about seven months after my brother died. My parents were hoping that getting away would help us all. It did. […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: beach vacations, carolina beach, Jungle Rapids, North Carolina, Southport, summer vacations

Because it’s Sunday, dammit.

August 14, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

A couple weeks ago I declared that this upcoming school year was going to be the Year of No. A couple years ago I declared that I was going to stop working on Sundays and make sure I spent time recharging and connecting with my family. That Sunday thing kind of fell by the wayside. […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: beach, carolina beach, kids, no, North Carolina, sunday, vacation, year of NO

10 Road Trip Hacks For Traveling With Kids

August 5, 2016 by not your average mom 4 Comments

Last week I took a solo road trip with five of the kids to Hershey, Pennsylvania, and I’m getting ready to embark on another one to North Carolina. The trip to Hershey was only 235 miles. The trip to North Carolina is three times as long. Just under 700 miles . If we didn’t ever […]

Filed Under: Moneysavers, Parenting, Timesavers Tagged With: band aids, beach, car, cookie sheet, flip flops, hershey park, hotel, license plate, medicine kit, North Carolina, Number 4, plastic drawers, Play-Doh, playdough, road trip, road trip hacks, tool box, vacation

And that’s exactly how I want him to think of me.

August 17, 2015 by not your average mom 3 Comments

The last three or four times I was on vacation, I was pregnant, so I didn’t really care what I weighed or how imperfect my body was while I was at the beach in a bathing suit. But now I’m not pregnant, and I’m heavier than I’d like to be. Twenty years ago, I would […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: accepting your body, beach, North Carolina, running, strong is the new skinny, summer, vacation

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