Life with Dudes Never Looked So Pretty
So many moments have filled me with joy this month. Many of them involving football. Because it’s fall, and mostly all I do every day between July (which is really officially not fall because it’s actually dead in the middle of summer, just sayin’) is talk about, watch, prepare for, and think about football. Youth football, the kind played three nights a week and most
Hooray! It’s Brain Injury Awareness Month! Misplaced enthusiasm? Yeah, probably. Not many people are even comfortable hearing the words brain and injury in a sentence together. More often there is screaming, and crying, and lots and lots of misconceptions. That’s why we all need to be aware. And that’s why we are going to have a frank, but entirely fact checked by a for real
Football season officially started in our home town this past Friday… Ignore the empty stands; that’s the visitor’s side. The Bears side was packed. Like, we-had-to-sit-in-the student-section-because-most-grown-ups-can’t-handle-the-shirt-less-body-painted-hollering-boys-and-the-screechy-girls crowded. I’d forgotten how small town-y it is where we live. I’d forgotten how much I actually liked that. I’d forgotten what it was like to sit in the bleachers, surrounded by friends, and family and cheer on
We spend a lot of time talking about role models at our house. About how to choose one. And, also, how to be one. Rarely a day goes by wherein the words, “Thank you for being a good role model,” don’t come out of my mouth. It’s a both a discipline technique (I say it to one when I really just want the Dude acting
It’s amazing how lonely uneventful my days are now that all of my Dudes are in school all day. Whereas we used to spend our days taking awesome photos featuring the sunglasses from the sunglasses of the month club we’re a part of… Now, I spend my days with the dog (snore) and our evenings are filled with homework and sports practices while our weekends
Part of today’s post is being brought to you by Mom Central Consulting. I’m gonna share with you some of our best summer photos, but before I do that I’m going to tell you about Canton, Ohio. Never heard of it? Eh, no biggie. Based on what I’ve seen of the place you’re not missing much (although admittedly, I’ve seen mostly just the inside of
