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This Week In Self-Care and Weight Loss, Episode 3: The People Who Matter Most

March 27, 2022 by not your average mom 4 Comments

On Friday night the kids and I did something we haven’t done in a couple years: We went to see the high school play. Our first experience with the high school play was in 2014 when Number 3 and 4 were extras in the Sound of Music. Here’s Number 4 with Captain von Trapp. 😂 […]

Filed Under: Life at My House Tagged With: connecting with your kids, Grease, high school musicals, spending time with your kids

All They Want Is Your Time

November 11, 2018 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

This  morning I was going for a run and I was listening, as I do usually do, to a podcast. I have a few favorites. I listen to Amy Porterfield for business stuff. For a good ass-kicking and a reminder to take ownership of all my decisions/words/actions/failures, I listen to Jocko Willink. And when I […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Parenting Tagged With: spending time with your kids, time, what your kids really want

Minutes with Mom

January 30, 2015 by not your average mom 3 Comments

I’ve slipped back into a pattern where I’m hardly spending any one-on-one time with the kids. And I realize that it’s a little more difficult for me to do that with each kid on a regular basis than it may be for a family with one or two kids. But it’s still possible. I’m in […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: making time for your children, spending time with your kids

Less squandering. More participating.

October 28, 2014 by not your average mom 6 Comments

I had one of those mornings. The kind where you get up too late, and then you are scrambling and you just can’t catch up. Where you are trying to fill out the permission slip you should taken care of the night before and then making the lunch for the kindergartener you should have made the […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: crying, facebook, leaves, memories, painting, quality time, spending time with your kids, whining

It’s 12 P.M. Have you said YES to your kids yet today?

August 14, 2014 by not your average mom 4 Comments

I woke up much later than I wanted to this morning, and as a result, I was feeling rushed from the second I got up. So when I was making breakfast and Number 4 bounced into the kitchen and asked, “Mommy! CAN I HELP?” I immediately said… “NO.” I was trying to make banana bread […]

Filed Under: In the Kitchen, Parenting Tagged With: baking, cooking with your kids, muffins, Number 4, saying yes to your kids, spending time with your kids

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