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It’s Okay

December 22, 2019 by not your average mom 4 Comments

It’s okay if you haven’t wrapped any presents yet. It’s okay if you haven’t bought your presents yet. It’s okay if you don’t buy all the presents you originally planned to buy. It’s okay if your kids have eaten frozen pizza for the last four nights in a row. It’s okay for you to set […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: presence vs. presents, simplifying, slowing down

My Simple (and perfect) Thanksgiving

November 22, 2018 by not your average mom 3 Comments

When I was a kid we’d have these epic Thanksgivings with like thirty relatives and we had two or three tables strung together and I loved it. It was like the Thanksgivings you’d see in the movies. Over the years, our Thanksgiving celebrations have dwindled down to less and less people. Relatives moved away, great […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: healthy holidays, simple holiday celebrations, simplifying, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving dinner

When Was The Last Time You Had A Lazy Sunday (or a lazy any-day)?

May 5, 2018 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Life with kids is inevitably going to be hectic and chaotic at times. Especially once your kids get involved in sports and other extra curricular activities. If you have one kid in one activity that is bad enough. When you have more than one kid over the age of five that’s when things can get […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Mental Health, Parenting, Self Care Tagged With: after school activities, chaos, kids in sports, overscheduling, simplifying

The Older I Get, The More Clear Things Become

August 22, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Every year around this time I go through a pretty big decluttering/simplifying stage. And every year my life becomes a tiny bit more manageable. I believe simplifying and streamlining and minimizing is a gradual process for many of us. You can’t slam on the brakes. You’ve gotta slow down gradually. This overwhelming desire to cut […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Mental Health, Moneysavers, Parenting, Timesavers Tagged With: Be More With Less, capsule wardrobe, Courtney Carver, decluttering, facebook, I love jesus but I drink a little, insanity, lunatic, mayhem, minimalism, simplifying

10 Lessons From Vacation To Apply To Your Everyday Life

August 22, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I just got back from a two week vacation in North Carolina. And it was the first vacation since we’ve had kids where I had the opportunity to actually vacate real life. Not for long.  A vacation with kids isn’t exactly a vacation. It’s more of a relocation. But there were no major catastrophes. Nobody […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body, Travel Tagged With: beach, benefits of simplfying, decluttering, family beach vacations, family vacations, how clutter affects your life, lessons, life lessons, simplifying, ten, vacation

She gets it.

November 13, 2015 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Earlier this week after doing a lot of thinking about Christmas and how it had become out of control and how the kids weren’t really all that appreciative of the gifts they were getting and how we just have way to much crap in our house, I talked to Number 3, 4 and 5 about how […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: Christmas, LIttle House on the Prairie, simplifying

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