Life with Dudes Never Looked So Pretty
*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
*This post contains an affiliate link to the Power Air Fryer.** I’ve been in this blogging game for nearly 11 years and some of you, and by some I mean HI MOM!, have been here with me for a really good chunk of that. Over the course of those years I’m sure you’ve learned quite a few things about me. Like, I love chocolate, cookies,
Note to pros: This Instagram guide is designed for moms who are finally deciding to give Instagram a go. It is not for marketers, influencers, anyone with a business account, or kids who don’t need an Instagram guide because they can probably write one in their sleep. For all of you moms who need an Instagram guide because you signed up and were like, wait,
Today is a big day for Disney Studios and Wreck-It-Ralph fans who’ve been anxiously anticipating the release of Ralph Breaks the Internet! They just released the newest Wreck-it-Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks the Internet trailer! Go ahead and watch it, I’ll wait… Official Ralph Breaks the Internet Trailer SOOOOOO excited. Ralph Breaks the Internet, Disney’s 57th animated feature, is set to release November 21, 2018. With
Yesterday we celebrated our one year homeowner anniversary with our new home! We pretty much ignored it and ate taquitos in the car on the way to football practice. I guess it’s not the kind of thing you really celebrate though is it? It just doesn’t quite seem like a year has even passed really. I guess it’s because we a) didn’t actually move in
**This is a sponsored post on behalf of PBS. All opinions are my own.** I used to hate summer break as a kid. I blame my mother, —bless her amazing heart that I now realize was only trying to do the right thing —and books. Don’t get me wrong, I loved stories –listening to them, telling them, writing them. I just hated to read independently
**This is a sponsored post in partnership with Art of Sport. All opinions are my own.** Any mom with a son doing the whole puberty thing can attest to the fact that at this time in their lives they have a unique ability to smell really, really bad. It’s this special kind of funk that makes your eyes water and your ears burn. If they’re
I am not a great cook. Don’t get me wrong, when I do it, my food tastes amazing. Like, next level delicious. The key here to my issue however is that part there when I said “when I do it”. Because, quite honestly, it’s rare. Between my work schedule and The Dudes sports schedules, I am hard pressed to find time to actually make anything
