• 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

road trip

I Need A Wife — The Road Trip, Part III

April 29, 2019 by not your average mom 2 Comments

The week after the swim meet was our spring break. Rather than head back home, I arranged a few visits with friends, so we were able to spend a few more days in Florida basically for free. We left St. Petersburg on Monday and headed a little bit further south to see my aunt — […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body, Travel Tagged With: Florida, Jacksonville Beach, road trip, spring break

The Road Trip, Part II

April 25, 2019 by not your average mom 2 Comments

(If you missed the Road Trip, Part I, you can read that here)   After three days in the car and over 1230 miles of traveling, we were happy to get to our hotel. We stayed in a Homewood Suites about 10 miles from the North Shore Aquatic Center where the swim meet was. Originally […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Florida, road trip, St. Petersburg, swim meets

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

Road Trip Statistics, Part 1

July 30, 2016 by not your average mom 2 Comments

On Thursday I embarked on a road trip by myself to Hershey, Pennsylvania with Number 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.   It may be the most challenging thing I’ve ever attempted to do in my entire life. And since I’m not sure if I’ll live to see tomorrow, here is a quick recap of […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: Hershey, hershey park, margarita, Number 4, road trip

Road Trip Hacks — First Aid/Medicine Kit

July 28, 2016 by not your average mom 4 Comments

Today I’m heading out on a road trip with (most of) the kids, and it’s my first solo road trip with them. I’m not gonna lie. I’m a little bit nervous. Not for the car ride, really. I mean, yes, since we couldn’t even make it 2 miles down the road the other day before […]

Filed Under: Moneysavers, Parenting, Timesavers Tagged With: hershey park, medicine, medicine cabinets, organization, organized hive, pennsylvania, road trip, road trip hacks, sue duval

Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.

July 27, 2016 by not your average mom 8 Comments

One year ago today I was in such a terribleĀ financial situation that a bunch of friends started a GoFundMe campaign to help my family. Exactly one year ago today. It was the end of a really shitty three year downward spiral where we were hit with one unlucky blow after another. And this time last […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: baseball, Hershey, hershey park, Number 3, road trip

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