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First Day Of Summer

June 20, 2022 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Today was our first official day of summer. Here’s how we spent a big chunk of it. It was a good day.

Filed Under: Life at My House Tagged With: lake life, paddle boarding, summer, summer vacation

Words Of Wisdom From My Seven-Year-OId

August 31, 2019 by not your average mom 5 Comments

It’s not officially the last weekend of summer, but school started last week and swim practice and baseball start next week so this weekend is pretty much the last hurrah for Summer 2019. It is a beautiful day here in CT today and a couple friends are coming over and so I just want to […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Parenting Tagged With: one on one time, quality time, summer vacation, the importance of spending time with your kids, vacation

I’m Going On Vacation Tomorrow and I CAN’T WAIT

August 3, 2019 by not your average mom 6 Comments

The last three weeks of my life have been extremely overscheduled. This is due to a whole bunch of factors I won’t bore you with, but many — okay… most — of those factors were of my own doing. Taking on too much being one of them. But also, tomorrow morning I am leaving for […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: beach vacations, summer vacation, vacation

Day 2

August 8, 2018 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Today was awesome. Except for the 20 minutes I couldn’t find Number 6 and Number 7. But that’ll be in another blog post… Here’s a few snapshots of our day! We love it here!    

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: beach vacations with kids, Jersey Shore Beaches, New Jersey, summer vacation, vacation, wildwood

A Surprise (Mini) Vacation

August 6, 2018 by not your average mom 4 Comments

My happy place is Carolina Beach, North Carolina. My family went there for the first time the summer before my senior year in high school and then it became a yearly tradition. I’ve gone down there with my parents and my brother and then with my husband and the kids about 25 out of the […]

Filed Under: Parenting, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: beach, Jersey Shore Beaches, summer vacation, Wildwood Crest

The Day I’ve Been Waiting Thirteen Years For Finally Happened Last Tuesday

July 14, 2018 by not your average mom 1 Comment

We don’t have any swim practices or commitments at all on Tuesdays, so on our summer calendar, Tuesday is day trip day. Our first Tuesday day trip was to Kent Falls last week. While most of us would look back on our trip to Kent Falls and say we had fun, there was lots of […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Parenting, Travel Tagged With: beach, beach days, beaches in CT, summer, summer vacation, taking kids to the beach

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