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It’s Okay To Ask For (And Accept) Help

November 1, 2017 by not your average mom 3 Comments

There is one comment I hear far and above any other as the mom in a large family. I don’t know how you do it. So I’ll fill you in on my secret. But first, one important thing to note is that when you have a lot of kids, it just becomes your new normal. […]

Filed Under: Moneysavers, Parenting, Timesavers Tagged With: costumes, delegate, Halloween, help, parents, stress, village

Crossroads, Chapter 2

July 8, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

On July 2, 2017, I made the decision to stop drinking. I wanted to share the story of how I came to this decision. In order to do that, I needed to go back to the beginning. If you missed those posts, you can catch up here: Chapter 1         Chapter 2 My brother […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: bone marrow transplants, brother, Connecticut, cousin, driveway, fifteen, fundraiser, Jeep, kiss, leukemia, parents, porch, seattle, smoke, t hirteen, thirteen, washington

Our Job As Sports Parents

April 5, 2017 by not your average mom 3 Comments

I have been involved in the sport of swimming since I was ten years old. I swam for a small club team when I started, moved to a very competitive Y team in middle school, swam varsity all four years of high school, and swam for a Division I team in college where I was […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: baseball, baseball moms, bleachers, cheering, coach, parenting athletes, parents, sidelines, soccer moms, sports, support, swim moms, swimming, teammates

Birthday Party Guidelines For Your Child’s First Eighteen Years

June 4, 2015 by not your average mom 37 Comments

1 year Don’t have a party. Your kid won’t remember. And you will spend most of your time trying to keep him or her awake when it is nap time or bed time. You don’t need to waste time making an Elmo cake from scratch or waste money on party decorations and food and booze […]

Filed Under: Humor Tagged With: birthday, birthday parties for kids, birthdays, college, facebook, moeny, money, parents

Hey Honey, don’t we have a son?

August 12, 2012 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Every day there comes at least one moment when I would like to lock at least one of my kids in his or her room for an indefinite amount of time… A couple days ago I read a story (http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/ohio-teen-collapses-call-duty-marathon-181245943.html) about a 15-year-old kid who partook in a video game marathon. For 4 days. So when he finally emerged […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: parents, time out, video games

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