Life with Dudes Never Looked So Pretty
Youth sports have been a major part of our lives for the past 15 years. Since my youngest started playing soccer in 2005, my Dudes have played several competitive sports: tackle football, flag football, basketball, swimming, lacrosse, martial arts, and baseball, and lacrosse. We now have a high school varsity soccer player, two basketball players, and a tackle football player keeping us engaged in some
**Today’s post is sponsored by Crest. All opinions about leftover Halloween candy and everything else are my own.** I used to love Halloween when The Dudes were little. We hosted this fun neighborhood Halloween party every year at our house and I put all kinds of effort into costumes and décor and treats. We had this awesome trivia game with real prizes. And, I even
The final Ralph Breaks the Internet trailer has been released and, the second flick from the Wreck-It-Ralph franchise is officially set to hit theaters on November 21, 2018. Which means, we are in less than a month away from another great Disney movie release! via GIPHY For those not familiar with the story of everyone’s favorite old school arcade game bad guy turned hero and
Like everyone else in America, I had grand plans to buy Mega Millions lotto ticket last week. That billion dollars was calling my name! And then, Dude 3 got strep throat and I had to stay home pretty much all of Friday, and then Saturday I got super busy with football and soccer and Hoco prep for Dude, and somehow, in a moment of insanely
*This air fryer fried chicken recipe post may include affiliate links, if you click and buy, I make a commission.* Here’s what’s true: I do not like to cook. I like to eat and I like to feed my children, but I am wholly uncreative when it comes to meal preparation and I’d rather do a whole list of other things besides slave over a
*Today’s post is sponsored by NATA, the National Athletic Trainers’ Association. All opinions are my own.* The impact concussions can have on athletes who play American football is a hot topic for athletes and non-athletes alike. As NFL players have become more vocal about the injuries and damage their brains have suffered, and more awareness is brought to the danger of mild Traumatic Brain Injuries
*Today’s post is brought to you by Crest toothpaste and true love. All opinions are my own.* I love hearing meet cute stories about how couples stumbled into each other’s lives and fell, unexpectedly, in love. Or, at least in curiosity enough to exchange numbers and see where things could go. DudeDad and I don’t have a story like that. In fact, I can’t even
*This is a sponsored post in collaboration with NATA.org to help bring awareness to athlete mental health issues.* It’s okay to not be okay. That is the ending line, the ending point, from the video recently posted by Cari Wood, ATC, athletic trainer at Redmond High School. Entitled, Your Life Matters, the video, created to let students know that they’re not alone and it’s okay
Two of my three children are currently living securely in the teen years. Seated awkwardly between what I like to call the cuddly kid years and the almost adulting years they enter when they graduate from high school, head off to college, and begin to taste the cold, hard reality that going to a fast food joint and only being able to afford something from
We’ve all been in those situations –you have a major deadline, or a trip, or a the opening night of your kid’s school play and you still have to drive all over town to find a pair of overalls that fit your 7 year old so you can make a Papa Bear costume for him to wear. Or, the unfortunate one I had to deal
