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Mom, are you alright?

September 7, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Welcome back to the official start of afternoon mayhem, Everyone! The Logistical Olympics have begun! Are you all ready? Yesterday afternoon we had one kid start a new job, four kids at three different swim practices, one kid at a baseball practice, and a kindergarten open house. I am out of after school shape. Now that […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: bedtime, computer, Number 4, Number 5, olympics, phone, routine, work

Yes, for the rest of your lives of being little kids.

June 4, 2016 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

I lost it on the kids today. We were in the car on the way home from Costco, and — I should rewind… Saturday mornings are not much fun for me. They are so far from the Saturday mornings I had as a kid where you would wake up at 7 or so and watch […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: consistency in parenting, inconsistency, routine, simplify

I backed off my kids in the morning, and life got better for all of us.

May 9, 2016 by not your average mom 3 Comments

Our mornings can be a little chaotic and even if I am fairly organized and everyone has all their stuff packed the night before, I inevitably find myself telling the kids to hurry up and get dressed! multiple times before the bus comes. Number 5 and  6 are on the same bus, and so they are […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: bus, mroning, positive parenting, routine

8 Things To Know About Night Terrors

January 6, 2016 by not your average mom 6 Comments

Back in August, Number 4 started having regular night terrors. Before that, she had had a couple, but they were always when she was really sick and had a fever. I always thought they were more a fever delirium than a night terror. I never expected she’d have one when she was completely healthy. But in […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: bedtime routines, fever, night terrors, routine, sleep walking, stress

When do I have time to work out? I don’t. But then again, neither do most of us.

July 3, 2015 by not your average mom 11 Comments

A couple days ago someone left a comment on the Facebook Page: Could you do me a solid and blog about when you have time to workout?? I had started writing a response to this question a couple days ago. It had lots of tips and pointers in it. But then I deleted it. Because here is […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: antidepressants, finding time to work out when you're a mom, golf, marathon, mental health, Not Your Average Fitness Course, online fitness courses, pounds, routine, working out

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