Y’all! We won! What an exciting game! I have to admit that after Sunday night’s performance, I almost upgraded myself to a mostly interested but still amused wife of a LSU football superfan. It was certainly a magical night, and in more ways than one. I know I like to joke about my husband Matt’s obsession, but I was also raised in a family full of LSU superfans. Fall Saturday nights during my childhood were mostly spent watching (sometimes just listening to) LSU football at my grandparents’ house with dozens of family and friends.
This past Sunday, we recreated one of those nights to celebrate my grandparents’ anniversary. My girls got a glimpse into how being an LSU fan...
Anyone else feel that life gets put in cruise control after kids? This cruise control is not taking us anywhere romantically with our significant other either. More like a quick run to McDonald's or a night of chasing kids before they go to bed. After having our first child, I started to feel this lack of 'alone time' with my husband. It didn't get much easier as we added two more to the pack.
We tried to make an effort for at least one date night, aka, a quick dinner run, at least once every 2 months. For the majority of our anniversaries, dinner was at home with kids. The date of our anniversary doesn't make it easy for a...
So we all know those couples who love to spend every moment together. They wake up together, get ready for the day together, leave together with a “Bye, honey! Have a great day!” Only to come home together, prepare dinner together, help the kids with homework, bath time, and reading time before getting tucked into bed ... TOGETHER.
Alternatively, we have those couples or families who rarely get to see each other. For reasons such as military deployment, job related duties, dating in a long distance relationship, or maybe the husband is hunting unicorns in Canada that takes weeks upon end! If you’re one of these women (or men), especially with kids at home, here is a fool proof...
I got married later in life by most social standards. It allowed me a false sense of maturity going into my marriage. I would get the question over and over again, mainly from older women, "Why haven't you been married yet?" It angered me. I hadn't been married yet because I didn't want to marry the men before. I thought that was the end of infuriating comments aimed at marriages by the "more experienced." I was wrong.
I was married on August 2, 2014. It was lovely. My husband and I had a simple relationship full of blunt conversations and lots of laughter. We never had to wonder what the other was thinking. We were headed into a life of...
Every mom knows that sleep deprivation is just part of the job description. You sign up to be a mom, and have to fill out a checklist of things you know you'll have to put up with those first few years: spit up, cleaning someone else's behind, and managing to function on two hours of sleep and copious amounts of caffeine. Everything that comes after that stage is over is a surprise, but by that point, you're expected to be able to roll with the punches.
The sleep deprivation part is, in my mind, the most difficult part of the whole gig those first few years of being a new parent. It's only magnified if you're sharing a bed with...
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