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Dear NYAM — How much TV do you let a 4-year-old watch?

December 12, 2016 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

A couple weeks ago I got a message from a reader asking me about kids and screen time: How much, if any, TV/iPad do you let a 4 year old watch? I have a lot of anxiety in my personality and it stresses me out if he watches an hour after school, but I also […]

Filed Under: Advice Tagged With: iPad, Number 7, Sesame Street, technology, television, televisions, TV

I drank coffee and wine when I was pregnant.

December 7, 2016 by not your average mom 6 Comments

I don’t know if you heard about this, but Pink posted a picture on Instagram recently and she’s pretty pregnant and in the picture she was sitting on the floor of her kitchen in front of the microwave drinking a cup of (decaf) coffee and trying to get through the day. Just like the rest […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: alcohol, caffeine, coffee, Number 7, Pink, pregnancy

Mom Fail #4,783

November 22, 2016 by not your average mom 5 Comments

One of the things I’m struggling with these days is that now that all the kids are in school full time, I feel like I should totally have my shit together. And I don’t. I feel like I should be totally organized (I’m not), the house should be pretty clean (it isn’t), and I should […]

Filed Under: Humor Tagged With: Monday, Number 4, Number 5, Number 7, picture, swim, team picture, vagina

Nothing Is Safe

November 1, 2016 by not your average mom 14 Comments

A couple weeks ago I told you the story about… THE ROBES. About a week after that, I was in Costco, and all the Christmas stuff was out in full effect. There were a couple things I saw that I knew the kids would LOVE, and still being on a mission to not leave Christmas […]

Filed Under: Funny Stuff, Humor, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: baseball, Christmas, Lego, Number 7, Play-Doh, presents

Word Party

October 29, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

We’ve had a long week, and today was a long day, and the kids are all wiped out. Tonight Number 7 hit a wall and lost her shit. Number 4 did something to piss her off, and then she just started pretty much throwing punches. Normally when she goes off the deep end like that, […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: attention, caillou, facebook, iPad, meltdown, Number 7, phone, quality time, special time, word party

A Cute And Easy Halloween Decoration That Uses Up Those Broken Crayons

October 23, 2016 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

A couple days ago a friend of mine posted a picture of a pumpkin her daughter made. I had never seen anything like it before, but I thought it was so cute. I  Googled how  to do this, and all you needed was some crayons, a little glue, a pumpkin and a hair dryer. I […]

Filed Under: Decorating and DIY, Kids' Corner, Moneysavers, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: crayons, decorations, gourds, hair dryer, Halloween, Halloween crafts for kids, kitchen, Number 7

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