Health + Wellness

Football is synonymous with fall in Nebraska. Whether or not you're a Husker fan, it’s hard to escape game-day excitement!  If your kids love watching football and cheering on their favorite team, they will love learning more about the sport...

I was so fortunate to get a chance to work out at Well Mama—a very fun, energetic, welcoming community of women and moms who are working out and feeling better. 

The holidays: a time when I feel justified to eat whatever I want, whenever I want, for three straight months. Each year, I start my holiday eating as soon as candy corn arrives in stores. Then I proceed to eat...

“I’m just going to do a quick 20-minute workout while the kids play.” Two hours have gone by. You’ve broken up two fights, consoled one toddler, applied a Band-Aid, changed a poopie diaper, cleaned up a spilled drink, changed...

My Problematic Morning Mantra to my Kids: “Come on. Let’s go.” “Your socks aren’t on yet, and school starts soon. Let’s do this, kiddos.” “You forgot what at home? We’ll have to hurry back to get it.” "We're late. Hurry, kids!" Diagnosing the Problem One...

A few months ago I was snipped and sterilized. That’s right—I got a vasectomy. After the dust settled of having identical twin boys, my wife and I decided that we were done having children. Before meeting with my doctor to prepare...

One day, near the end of December, it dawned on me I had gotten too comfortable in my house and expandable sweatpants.   It was on one of those days where I had to be somewhere, but I didn’t know what...

In a matter of 36 hours, our seemingly normal life with our 6-month-old son was turned completely upside down. Has your life ever changed in the matter of a weekend? I remember getting a call from Grandma Jeannie asking me...

Do you know the most terrible four-letter word a mother can hear? No, not a toddler repeating Mommy’s potty mouth. Not a ‘tweener testing the boundaries of colorful vocabulary. This word gets tossed around willy-nilly, with not a "bleep"...

At the age of 32 and with three kids ages eight and under, I ran a half marathon for the first time in my life. Yep, the whole 13.1 miles. I've done hard things but running Nebraska's Good Life...