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Teenage Boys

July 10, 2020 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Having a teenage son is an interesting experience. Sometimes teenage boys do things that make you seriously question how they have managed to survive as long as they have. Other times, they do or say something that completely blows you away. Number 3 is fifteen years old. Swim practice for him started back up three […]

Filed Under: Life at My House Tagged With: teenage sons, teenagers

What Your Teenager Might Be Trying To Tell You

November 7, 2018 by not your average mom 6 Comments

We swim on a swim team that’s about 45 minutes from our house. Number 3 has practice six days a week, Monday through Saturday. Number 4 has practice five days a week on Monday and Wednesday through Saturday. Number 5 and 7 have practice three nights a week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and I’m […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: parenting teenagers, teenagers

20 Things Good Moms Do

August 18, 2017 by not your average mom 4 Comments

I get a couple emails or messages every week from women and moms in particular thanking me for “keeping it real” and for making them “feel normal.” It’s one of the reasons I started this blog. Because when I was in the thick of parenting and we had five kids under the age of  eight […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: brushing, chaos coordinator, discipline, goldfish, merch by amazon, outdoorsy, talents, technology, teenagers, toothbrush

May they be blessed.

July 30, 2014 by not your average mom 2 Comments

For those of you who are waiting to make it through the stage where your kid doesn’t sleep through the night, or the playing-in-the-toilet phase, or the potty training phase, or the saying-no-to-everything-you-ask-her-to-do phase, I have a little newsflash for you. It doesn’t get easier. In fact, it gets harder. Yes, it’s exhausting to get […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: teenagers

TTYL. Or never.

February 12, 2013 by not your average mom 1 Comment

  Once upon a time there was a boy named Number 1 who got a cell phone for Christmas. A really nice, kick-ass, jaw-dropping, Oh-my-God-I-can’t-believe-you-guys-got-this-for-me cell phone. (His parents had a free upgrade, so it actually only cost $35). But he didn’t know that. His parents had a talk with him about the value of […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: cell phone, mom, mom blog, overage, teenagers, texting

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