The holiday season is filled with tons of family time in our house! The snowy cold mid-western nights lend to many evenings when we have a fire in the fireplace and watch a movie. Of course my sports-driven boys love inspirational sports movies. We have complied […]
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This time of year my house seems to start overflowing. It’s a feeling that our “stuff” is taking up every available space. We have decorations and gifts and food and…you get the point! Do you ever feel this way in December? Well, now is the
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If you’ve ever been a room mom, then you know your big “time to shine ” (and most stressful job) are the parties. Many schools are limiting what type of food and activities you can bring and it makes our jobs even tougher! Regardless of if
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It’s cold, snowy, and you only have 30 minutes to get a workout in before the kids need to get to practice. Knowing you need to make time for yourself, you want to take a break and get some stress relief, so what can you
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This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of TruMoo Protein Plus. All opinions are 100% mine. Last school year my oldest son started running cross country. Honestly, he’s not really passionate about running, but he is passionate about basketball. Simply put, the
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My kids are busier than ever! It mostly has to do with the fact they are getting older and have more of a say in what they do and don’t do. On the flip side, there are so many things demanding their attention and time. Just with
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The holidays are coming, the holidays are here. So how do we stay on our fitness plans and avoid the “Holiday 10”? There are many ways to get into the habit of taking care of you. The “I’ll worry about in January mindset” is dangerous
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For the past 4 years my family has taken the first 25 day of December and made it all about giving instead of receiving. When we started doing this, my youngest was only two and half years old and my oldest was four. We started out with
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As we enter this month of November and ponder all of the things we are thankful for, it’s important we have our kids take time to think about these things too! We created this simple Gratefulness Printable that you can print out and hand out
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This post is written by Craig Sigl a Mental Toughness Trainer. ************* Confidence. Everybody wants more of it and lack of it is the second most common issue why athletes come to me for. (The first is fear of failure). When I work with young athletes
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Youth Sports can be both a big time investment and financial investment in our kids. As we write check after check so that our kids can play, there may be thoughts that run through your mind: is this the best use of my child’s time, if
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We all experience stress, if not today then tomorrow or the next. If we are honest with ourselves…most of our stress comes from situations we create. We are all extremely busy these days!! If you have school aged kids you are probably at that stage in
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The fall weather has hit here in the midwest which means its 40 degrees in the morning and by the middle of the day it can be 75! Dressing for the day doesn’t ever seem to be easy. Most days I need to throw on
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This past spring I decided I would try to get on the band wagon of all those wearing fitness trackers. I asked for a fitness tracker for Mother’s Day. Then I panicked…they are a bit of an investment and I wanted to make sure the one I got was
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This post may contain affiliate links. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the perfect time for your sports team to help raise awareness and do a community service project! Breast cancer affects so many women and their families. In 2013, an estimated 232,340 new cases
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{This post was written by Susan Dennis} It’s that time again. Temperatures are dropping, fall is in color, pumpkin flavors everything…and parent-teacher conferences are ahead! I’ll bet you can hardly wait to get through the scheduling process, which for me (the teacher side of the
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Just last weekend I picked up my oldest son from our local baseball park after he was done umping. As we were driving out of the park he said, “I wonder how many hours I have spent at this park?” We had a short discussion about
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Football season is HERE!!! It’s a great time of year and even if you aren’t a football fan, I’m sure you can appreciate the season for other reasons. Some of the things I love the most are crisp, cool weather, warm comfort food (like chili)
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I’ll be the first to admit, none of my boys are what you would call “big readers”. You know what I mean, the kind of kid who passes time by reading a book wherever they go…in the car, while attending their sibling’s sporting events or curled
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Car decals are a great way to show support for something or someone – like the kiddos, of course! – or just sharing important organizations, causes, and the like within your own community. More times than not you will see cars “sporting” decals that show
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Helping our students and student athletes be successful in school is so important! In order to get them on the right track it’s best to start at a young age to teach them planning and organizational tips and it’s never to late to implement a
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We have lived in our current house for over 2 years and I am just now getting around to decorating the boys’ rooms! I typically have a pretty good idea of what I would like to do, but their rooms have been difficult. As pre-teens
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Sports Themed Party Food Ideas: “Fish on a Stick” Is A Fun Option for a Swim Team Party or Birthday Pool Party This month, every Wednesday we are sharing sports themed food…today we’re sharing an option for swimmers! The “Fish on a Stick” is a
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Should You Let Your Child Strength Train Your kids are playing sports. They’re practicing. They’re training. You bring them to and from practice and watch their games, but have you ever given much thought to what they are actually doing at those practices? After watching
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Ready for those Thursday night and Saturday night and Sunday afternoon and Sunday night football games?! I know the guys in my house are and every chance there is to turn the football games on they do! If they plan to have friends over for a
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