Life with Dudes Never Looked So Pretty
If there is one thing I have struggled with consistently in my life, it has been tooting my own horn. It feels weird to even type that, because, duh, even typing it feels like horn tooting. I always just take it to mean I have a healthy dose of humility and humbleness. But, others have told me I need to be better about this –that
There are so many things to worry about when your teen is ready to get behind the wheel of a car. I honestly can’t think of another parenting moment we’ve had that is this scary for me. It’s just so entirely out of my control. And car accidents happen to good kids, responsible kids, kids who don’t drink or text or drive with distractions. No
We don’t really buy a ton of clothing when it’s time to head back to school. We focus most of our shopping efforts in two main areas: shoes and possibly shorts. Especially for Dude 1. He’s the one that has no one older than him to gift him clothing and since he is in the growing-while-sleeping-years, he sometimes wakes up longer than he was when
Before we get into the meat of this thing, let me get something that needs to be said out of the way: I am cool. Not a cool mom. Not cool for a grown up. Definitely not cool for an old lady. Just straight up cool, no context or qualifiers needed. I am relatively certain that on just the right day, I can go head
Today is our first day of spring break. The weather dude says it will reach a marvelous 69 degrees of full on sunshine. Know what that means? Dudes will be banished from the house for a full day of playing in the yard. I will throw them snacks out the back window and they can drink from the yard hose. They can muddy their shoes
In case you haven’t heard, bff, more widely known around here as the Baby Baker completed her baking and popped out a handsome, healthy human baby a couple of weeks ago. She’s officially a card carrying member of the Dude Mom’s club! I wanted to just take a moment to share a few things with her to get her ready for Dude kid rearing. She
When it comes to being bossy, I’m woman enough to admit that I excel at that. I call it “maintaining high expectations for those I care about to encourage and inspire success.” But, you can call it bossy if you must. Especially when it comes to awesome infusing my Dudes. I just want to make sure that they are not only people I can be
There are a lot of things about being a DudeMom that I didn’t anticipate. Like the amount of noise, and the never ending energy, and their desire to leap from things in a single bound. Their obsession with Axe Body Spray (seriously, I think they put some sort of pheromone inside that makes them feel like they need to spray it thickly all over their
Check, check, and check. Almost. Everyone has life goals. Some people want to see the pyramids, or parachute from an airplane, or swim with dolphins, and all of that sounds awesome (I lie, the only way I would parachute from a plane is if it were crashing), but none of that is on my list. Personally, my life will be considered awesome if I get
