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In true average mom fashion, I wrote this when Maverick turned 12 months, but didn’t take the picture til last week. So….one day before my little man turns 13 months, I’ll give you his ONE YEAR update 🙂 (And thanks for not judging my tardiness too much!) My tiny baby is no longer at tiny baby. […]
If you follow me on Instagram (@thisaveragemom), then you’ve seen some of the pictures I’m sharing today already…sorry!! We had a great 4th yesterday. We didn’t do much of anything, actually. We were able to play with the kids all morning, which was really nice considering we don’t get many Wednesdays at home! We ended […]
In our house, our evening routine starts at 5:15 PM when we walk in the door. We get home, change, and eat dinner (Monday-Thursday my in-laws cook since they are already at our house watching the kids). At 6 PM, my in-laws leave, and if the kids need baths, it’s bath time for Mav. He […]
With a name like Maverick, you pretty much have to have a Top Gun first birthday party! So we planned one for our sweet little man. Once we started, we realized there isn’t a whole lot out there in the way of Top Gun parties. Or maybe I am just a bit too average and […]
If there’s one aspect of motherhood that I was “above average” in, it’s breastfeeding. In honor of today being my first day in forever wearing a regular bra (GOODBYE NURSING BRAS!!), I thought I’d take some time to reflect on the journey and share whatever tips I can think of that could help a fellow […]
This Father’s Day was one for the books. And not in a good way. We will hopefully be doing a re-do this weekend. We started off the day in chaos mode, trying to get to church early for Maverick’s dedication. After Mav’s dedication, we headed back to the house. We had a full house since […]
Dear Maverick, Today, you are one. How can that be? I’m pretty sure it was only a few months ago that I was finally sitting down on the couch after getting your sister in bed when I said to your dad: “Uhhh? B? I think my water just broke….” And now suddenly I’m the proud […]
For the last few weeks, I’ve been running. And it’s been hard. I’m only up to 3-point-something miles per run, and I’ll let you in on a little secret: by 2.5 miles, I’m ready to give up. My head tells me that it’d be sooo much easier if I just walked for a couple minutes. […]
Well, last week my mom called and asked if I wanted her to fly me up to Michigan to run the Crim. The Crim is a 10 mile race in Flint. They have other events too– the last time I ran an event at the Crim it was the 8K and I was newly pregnant […]
A few months ago, my mother in law introduced Harlyn to a new song called “Good Morning” by Mandisa. They would sing and dance to it in the kitchen after we left for work in the morning. Harlyn loved it so much that she started asking us to do it with her in the mornings. […]
