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This Is Your Sign

January 15, 2018 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Since we had no school today I thought I was going to get a whole bunch of stuff done, but really all I did yesterday and today was drive kids to different play dates and swim practices. I got almost nothing done yesterday. Today was not looking much better, and at 9 a.m. I had […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: falling off the wagon, inspiration, long course, motivation, pool, sidelined, swim, workout, workout motivation

Comfort Zones Are For Wimps

December 30, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I first joined the swim team when I was ten years old. I wasn’t good — at all — but I loved it. By the time I got to high school, I was fairly decent. I was All-State my sophomore, junior, and senior year. I swam at Lehigh all four years. I was one of […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: bathing suit, boobs, comfort zone, pool, suit, swim, swimming

We are all the star of our own shit show.

December 4, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

On Thursday I was coaching swim practice and a mom of one of my swimmers who also happens to read the blog came up to me. And she said, “I just want to thank you. Your blog helps so many of us who are struggling.” She gave me a hug. A big, warm, strong hug […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting Tagged With: depression, kindness, pool, share, shit, show, struggling

Number 7 is like a box of chocolates.

October 2, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

We had our first swim meet of the fall season today. And this year, Number 7 made her USS swimming debut and swam in her first serious, legit swim meet with Numbers 3, 4, and 5. She was the only 4 -year-old in the meet. She is just a couple days from her fifth birthday, […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: Number 4, Number 7, pool, swim meet, swimming

It’s 8:00 P.M. Have You Smiled At Your Children Today?

May 4, 2014 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Yesterday was particularly crazy. After a shitty night’s sleep and the inability to get myself up and moving before the kids woke up, I started off my day feeling behind the ball. Frazzled. Disorganized. By 7:30 a.m. I was already short on patience. I had the typical chaotic rush to get everyone in the car […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: a smile goes a long way, blankies, couch, pajamas, pool, pool deck, smiling, sometimes it's the kids who teach the parents

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