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Fantasy Football Team Names for Girls 2022

September 14, 2022 by KT Leave a Comment

Fantasy Football Team Name Ideas for Girls and Women

Fantasy Football Season 2022 is almost here and time for a fantasy team name!

I love looking at Fantasy Football Team name idea lists for unique, creative, and funny fantasy football team names!

I’ve updated this list from years past so some of the names may look familiar, but there are some new ones in there as some players obviously enter and leave the league.

I’ve compiled a list of my favorite team names and included some of my own too! Some fantasy football names are just for girls and some team names can be for both men and women!

Personally, I like picking a team name after I draft and using a player or players to make a witty name.

I won’t judge you if you draft a player just for a fun fantasy team name!

Here are some popular and funny Fantasy Football team names for girls and boys for 2022:

Popular Fantasy Football Names for Girls

Fantasy Football names for girls, ladies, and moms that are popular and can be used any year, but are definitely female specific!

Victorious Secret
Sacks in the City
Gridiron and Wine
Cleats and Cleavage
Watergirl
Glitz and Blitz
Fantasy Goddess
Hail Mary (especially good if you’re Mary)
Friday Night Tights
Women Who Score
Show Me Your TD’s
Bloodbath and Beyond
Minivan Mavens
The Watergirl
Junk in the Trunk
The Brains of the Game
In her Endzone
X and O’s
Leading Lady
TD Master
Running Back To Me
Blondes Have More Run
End Zone Divas
Back That Pass Up
Field Goal Diggers
Better At This Too!
Trophy Wife
Get Ovary It
Here Comes the Run
Lady Luck
Wrecking Gals
She’s The Man

Player Inspired Fantasy Football Team Names

Fantasy Football team names inspired by a football player on your own team. Some are just for girls, but most of these could be used by male and female owners. Some of the guys in my league have inspired some of these too!

Brady Got Back (Tom Brady)
Call Me Brady (Tom Brady)
Luck Be A Brady (Tom Brady)
Nobody Puts Brady in a Corner (Tom Brady), May be too long though
Brady Gaga (Tom Brady)
Take Mahomes Tonight (Patrick Mahomes)
Baby Got Dak (Dak Prescott)
Dakstreet Boys (Dak Prescott)
Dak to the Future (Dak Prescott)
Dak and Yellow (Dak Prescott)
Hit Me With Your Prescott (Dak Prescott)
Baking Bad (Baker Mayfield)
Mayfield of Dreams (Baker Mayfield)
A Kiss from a Rosen (Josh Rosen)
Jimmy G-Strings (Jimmy Garoppolo)
Mariota Had A Little Lamb (Marcus Mariota)
A Carr is Born (Derek Carr)
Mercedes Wentz (Carson Wentz)
Just Say Wentz (Carson Wentz)
All I Do is Winston (Jameis Winston)
Shake it Goff (Jared Goff)
I Gotta Theilen/Can’t Stop the Theilen/More than a Theilen (Adam Theilen)
O-Dell No (Odell Beckham Jr)
The Farmer in the Dell (Odell Beckham Jr)
Lights, Kamara, Action (Alvin Kamara)
Instant Kamara (Instant Kamara)
Kelce Lately (Travis Kelce)
Diggs in a Blanket (Stefon Diggs)
Dalvin and the Chipmunks (Dalvin Cook)
Too Much Landry (Jarvis Landry)
Stairway to Tevin (Tevin Coleman)
Fuller House (Will Fuller)
Kittle One (George Kittle)
Kittle Caboodle (George Kittle)
The Baby-Sitters Chubb (Nick Chubb)
Golladay Inn Express (Kenny Golladay)
Zay It Ain’t So (Zay Jones)
Giorgio Amari (Amari Copper)
T.Y. Next (T.Y. Hilton)
One Crabtree Hill (Michael Crabtree)
DJ Chark DooDooDoo (D.J. Chark)
Hot for Watt (J.J Watt, defense player so any J.J fans can use)

Team Inspired Names

Fantasy Football team names inspired by your favorite Football teams!

Dallas Cowgirls
Chicago Mama Bears
Green Babe Packers
Mile High Heels
Save a Bronco, Ride a Cowboy

GOOD LUCK THIS YEAR!

What other Fantasy Football team names for girls and guys have I missed? What is your fantasy football name? Do you play?

Also, feel free to check out my older post of Fantasy Football Team Names for Girls for even more fantasy football team name ideas!

How to Survive a Long Car Ride with Kids

August 22, 2021 by KT Leave a Comment

Car Ride Travel Hacks for Long Car Rides with Toddlers and Kids

Are you looking to do a long car ride with babies, toddlers, and/or kids soon? Are you looking for some car ride travel tips? Well, I have some tips on how to survive long car rides with toddlers and kids.

We have done a lot of car ride travel lately thanks to the pandemic, and it’s honestly not as bad as I thought it would be. Our longest trip was a 24-hour trip to visit the in-laws and it was more enjoyable that I thought it may be.

So here are a few ways to survive long car rides with children because there’s definitely better ways to make the long hauls than others!

Drive Overnight

Driving overnight is the best when traveling with babies, toddlers, and kids.

I know it’s not always possible, but when it is, it is so much easier!

We drive from New England to Florida, and we leave at 6-7PM at night, and arrive in the later afternoon/early evening the next day. We go straight, and we find it preferable from driving two full days and a hotel stay in between. (But we are also crazy.)

It’s exhausting for the parents, but you get quiet kids for a big portion of your trip if you travel overnight! My husband and I have a system… 6 hours each back and forth until we arrive, when humanly possible.

We are EXHAUSTED, but it’s so much better! Especially when the kids are sleeping for half the drive!

We have also done half overnight where we will go to bed at home early and sleep for awhile and then wake our kids up in the middle of the night to get an early start. They will go back to bed (usually) and we get to sleep in our beds and get a few hours of shut eye before we begin our journey.

Whenever possible, try to do some or most of the drive during the overnights. The road and the car is more peaceful and you’ll make better time because you’ll have less rest and food stops and you’ll need less mental breaks too!

Be Boring Beforehand

I think one reason why my kids do so well with long car rides is that they are use to being bored. We don’t always entertain them– especially during car rides. We never had a DVD player or any screens in the car, and don’t really entertain them during short or medium car rides.

Keeping kids bored can be such a blessing because they can figure out how to entertain themselves and enjoy the little things.

Start training your kids now to be bored and entertain themselves so they will do better in the car for future car rides!

Take Breaks Wisely

We like to plan out our breaks and use them wisely. We usually start at the evening, and plan to go through until we need gas (and pee), which is usually six hours in our case. And then in another six hours we get gas again and then get out and grab breakfast.

We usually take our breaks only when needed. Sometimes we just do McDonald’s or other foods to go and eat while we are driving, because the kids keep busy eating their meal in the car for a half hour while we don’t waste any driving time, and sometimes they need that time to get out and run wild for a half hour out of the car.

You’ll kind of know when you can get away with more travel or when you need to just stop. And sometimes just bringing them into a gas station and picking out snacks will do the trick, and other times, you may need to find a playground or restaurant or something else to break it up.

We like to stop only when we all need it, because sometimes we’d rather just get to our destination and other times we need more time.

Plan for Anything

One thing I didn’t realize when we started our road trip adventures was how interesting it was driving in other parts of the country was.

I didn’t realize that the South didn’t have the convenient travel plazas that the northeast has with gas, bathrooms, and food right off the highway. Once we hit Virginia on i-95, I realized we would need to get off the highway everytime.

We would try to find big gas stations attached to restaurants to help us save time, but sometimes it was hard to read maps to make sure we would pick correctly.

I found that we made a lot of mistakes our first go around. When we first started our road trip adventures, we wasted more time on our breaks, just because we didn’t have it planned out as well as I thought.

We’d arrive at 24 hour gas stations, but the inside would be locked because the gas was credit card only, so we wouldn’t be able to use the bathroom, and would need another stop.

We also would hit more traffic or make better time and not be where we thought we may be on the road.

I would try to plan for everything or as much as possible and try to be flexible.

You may want to keep a travel app like Priceline on your phone so you can book a hotel on the road if you need it and other handy apps on our phone like gas apps and such.

I also made a list of playgrounds right off the highway and other short travel stops if we needed a break for my kids.

You never know what can happen when you travel, so I always find that planning for different scenarios can be helpful.

Dollar Store Finds

I love going to the Dollar Store beforehand and getting some new toys and new finds. I find it’s a great way to keep the kids busy with something new without spending a lot of money.

It’s amazing how something new can keep someone busy for a little while. I also like to bring in some of my kids favorite toys that I don’t let them play with as much for the sake of keeping them busy when I really need it.

Some other toys that I like for road trips besides dollar tree trinkets are:

The Best Snacks

Snacks. Snacks. Snacks.

Snacks can be a lifesaver when traveling. My kids get the best snacks when traveling. Usually new snacks to try or their favorite snacks they don’t get often.

I usually try to go with less messy snacks and snacks that take a long time to eat like fruit roll-ups.

You may also prefer to have them pick out their own snacks beforehand or at a truck stop so they have something to be excited about too.

Movie Time

It’s one of my last moves, but movies or tv shows can be great for long car rides with toddlers and kids. We usually do so to either reward very great behavior or to save our own sanity.

I especially put a movie on when I need to sleep and everyone is wide awake and making many requests to me while I’m riding shotgun.

Because I’m cheap, I never invested in a portable DVD system or anything. I usually just put my kindle fire on the arm rest and let the kids use that, but there’s so many different ways to use movies and screens as entertainment.

Bring a Potty with You

If you have new potty-trained children or children that need to go quickly, you may want to bring a potty with you.

I have a fond memory of my son always picking the worst times to need to go the bathroom, so the potty can come in handy for those emergency stops in unideal places.

Practice Makes Perfect

The more you travel, the easier it gets. At least, that’s been my experience. Our kids have gotten so much better with driving in the car. I remember feeling so defeated when it took us DOUBLE the time it would normally take, but now with my kids 4&6, we don’t take nearly as long when they were younger.

We’ve been better at picking places to stop, and we’ve learned when we really need to stop and when we can push it a bit. Also, the older they get, it’s gets better too because you can stop less and they will be more comfortable with longer trips!

Good Luck on your road trip travels with young kids!

Seashell Letter Art for Kids

July 23, 2021 by KT Leave a Comment

Seashell Letter Art, a great seashell craft with kids for some free home decor!

Collecting seashells with toddlers and kids is such a fun summer activity. My kids love bringing buckets to the beach and bringing home seashell treasures!

I also love when I can turn one fun activity with the kids into another!

There are so many fun seashell crafts and projects you can do with seashells after collecting!

We ended up turning our seashells into artwork– letter art to be precise!

It’s pretty easy to do….

First collect your supplies:

Seashells
Letter(s) (Cut yourself or buy pre-cut from an art store like Michaels)
Glue Gun and Glue
Hanger for the back

After you have your supplies, wash and dry your seashells. We used a hose to wash all of our seashells and then left them to dry overnight on a beach towel when the weather was really nice.

Seashells on a blanket from the beach getting ready for seashell art and crafts

After the seashells were ready to go, decide where you want your seashells on your letter of your choice. You can also use a canvas or something else if you don’t want to use a letter.

We used a letter for each of our children’s name, and then used their letter for their seashell artwork.

After you layout the shells how you want them, carefully glue each one with a hot glue gun.

Creating Seashell Letter Art, a great arts and crafts with seashells for kids

My kids put the shells how they wanted them, and then my husband did the hot glue gun part so our kids didn’t burn themselves.

Let the glue dry… and then hang it up and enjoy!

It’s pretty easy to do and it’s a great way to have pretty artwork from your kids and the beach!

Have you done any fun seashells arts and crafts with kids?!?

How to Make Quick and Easy Homemade Hand Soap

March 11, 2020 by KT Leave a Comment

I love making homemade hand soap… it’s quick, easy, healthy, and really inexpensive too!

I started making my own homemade hand soap shortly after I had kids because I wanted to use less harmful chemicals in daily life and organic soap was really expensive!

Now, I still make it because it’s actually SO CONVENIENT and CHEAP!

I buy a 32oz bottle of Dr. Bronner’s on Amazon for $16 and it lasts a really long time… that one bottle usually lasts close to a year. Crazy.

So here’s my recipe for this super easy, clean homemade hand soap:

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Easy Homemade Hand Soap Recipe

1-2 tsp of Castile Soap (I use Dr. Bronner’s)
Filtered or Distilled Water (I use filtered water from my side fridge dispenser)
Foam Pump Dispenser
Essential Oils (Optional)

Fill the foam soap dispenser almost full with filtered or distilled water and then add 1-2 tsp of castile soap to the top.

That’s it. It’s super easy.

I reuse the same pump dispenser (one I had from a store bought soap) and just fill with my water from my fridge dispenser and add a few squirts of castile soap.

You can also use essential oils to add a little scent and fun to it, but it’s totally optional.

It takes me less than 30 seconds, and I really run to the store to buy soap.

And, even better, castile soap is available on Amazon and it’s the price I normally pay.

If you figure $16 a bottle for castile soap with 2 tsp each time, you’re spending around .16 per refill without figuring the cost of changing your filter. But it’s still cheaper than the store bough stuff.

Super easy, super green, and super cheap.

There you go. Happy hand soap making!

How to Watch Hallmark Christmas Movies

November 3, 2019 by KT Leave a Comment

How to Watch The Hallmark Channel without cable

Are you looking to watch Hallmark Christmas movies but don’t have cable? How do you get the Hallmark Channel through streaming?

I love a good Hallmark movie, especially a Hallmark Christmas movie, but unfortunately the Hallmark Channel is one of the harder channels to watch without a cable package. (And I’m far too frugal to pay for cable!)

Hallmark Channel does offer their own streaming service, Hallmark Channel Now, but unfortunately, it only includes older movies and does not include new and live movies.

Hallmark Movies Now is $5.99/month but is not an option if you are looking for new Hallmark Christmas movies or looking to stream current programs.

Also, some of the biggest streaming providers don’t offer any Hallmark options.

I already had access to the biggest streaming options, but I still couldn’t access the Hallmark Channel.

Here are the popular streaming options I currently have access to:

Amazon Prime
Hulu
Netflix
YouTube TV

Unfortunately, none of the options above offered the ability to watch new Hallmark movies or stream live– especially 2019 Hallmark Christmas Movies!

I found some old Hallmark and Hallmark-ish movies on Amazon Prime and Netflix, but unfortunately the selection was very limited.

You can get When Calls The Heart and The Good Witch on Netflix but the latest season usually isn’t available until a new season starts.

So, how can you stream the Hallmark Channel live and watch Hallmark Christmas Movies this year?

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How to Watch the Hallmark Channel Legally Without Cable

There’s a few different streaming options to watch the Hallmark Channel (and other channels too!)

Frndly: Package options vary between $5.99-$9.99/month, Free 7-Day Trial
FuboTV: Options starting at $54.99/month for 70+ channels, Free 7-Day Trial
Philo: $20/month for 58 channels, Free 7-Day Trial
Sling TV: Packages starting as low as $25**/month (but you would need to add on Hallmark Channel to a package for $5/month). **There’s a 40% off deal currently, making it $15 month + $5 add on = As low as $20/month. Free 7-Day Trial.
Playstation Vue: $54.99/month for the Core package, but $65.99 for the Elite package to get all 3 Hallmark Channels. Free 5-Day Trial.
AT&T TV Now (Formerly DirecTV Now): Packages start at $50/month

You can always sign up for a trial and then cancel it before the trial ends. You can try a few and see what you like best. The free trials may even get you through the Christmas season!

Keep in mind that not every option below may work for you and not every streaming option will take every streaming device. You’ll want to research further to make sure you’ll be able to stream with your Smart TV, streaming device, and/or online.

You will also need a streaming device and/or a Smart TV to stream from your TV. Here are some of the most popular streaming devices:

There are other streaming options as well, so make sure to research to see what would work best for you!

I have a Firestick and Smart TV and have no complaints with either and perfect for streaming Hallmark Christmas movies and other favorites this Christmas season!

I'm Watching Hallmark Christmas Movies Socks, Hallmark Channel Inspired Socks

How Do I Stream the Hallmark Channel?

Frndly. After all the options, I decided to do the free trial for Frndly and so far so good.

I decided to do the $7.99 option because I’d like the DVR option and have the ability to record Christmas movies and watch it whenever I want!

It’s so nice to be able to watch Hallmark Christmas movies live AND to record for later!

I also didn’t want to pay $50/month for a streaming service because I don’t want or need a bunch of different channels at this time since I’m pretty much covered with other channels with other services.

I may try Philo at some point though because it would be nice to watch Lifetime Christmas movies, but I may just wait a little closer to Christmas to do so. We will see.

How do you watch Hallmark Christmas movies without cable? What’s your favorite Hallmark Christmas movie?

Fun Marshmallow Building Activity for All Ages

October 23, 2019 by KT Leave a Comment

marshmallow and toothpick building toddler and kid activity

Building with marshmallows and toothpicks is a classic activity.

I remember in middle school building with marshmallows and toothpicks to see what team could build the strongest bridge and then in high school, the biggest tower.

I even built and played with marshmallows and toothpicks as a grown adult for team building exercises in college and work.

Building with Marshmallows and toothpicks, and other variations too, is a great activity for any age… even toddlers and preschoolers!

My 4 year old was looking for something to do and I wanted to get a few things done on my computer.

My husband was complaining earlier in the day that nobody was eating the marshmallows and they were getting stale… and viola! An easy activity was born.

I gave my building loving boy toothpicks, marshmallows at the table and he went to town while I worked for my laptop.

He LOVED it.

It kept him so busy building and he was learning at the same time.

He actually did pretty good building and it kept him busy for well over 30 minutes.

I always did this activity when I was older, but you can really do this activity at any age.

(My two year old just ate the marshmallows though and made me nervous with the toothpicks so maybe not so young, but my four year old was so great with this activity!)

Marshmallow Building Activity for Kids: Supplies and Instructions

This Marshmallow Building Activity is quite simple.

Here is the supplies needed for this easy kid activity:

Marshmallows (the regular size worked better for my 4 year old then the mini ones, but we’ve done both!)
Toothpicks

That’s it.

Put the marshmallows and toothpicks out, and let the kids (or adults!) play and build.

You may want to put some paper towels down or tablecloth down first for easy clean up but this wasn’t that messy, so you don’t have to if you don’t want too.

You can also give some instruction or leave it totally up to them to lead the activity.

I personally just set left toothpicks and marshmallows out on the table and let my 4 year old go to town.

He needed some instruction and showed him how to make a box, and then after that, it was all him.

I occasionally held something here and there for him, but it was such a simple and self play activity. A great activity for toddlers– or any age!

However, if your audience is a little older or with groups you could:

Create the tallest building without falling
Create the sturdiest bridge without breaking
Structure that can hold the most weight
Create a variety of 3-D shapes

This is such a fun STEM activity for any age and you could create a challenge to it or just leave it open for creative play.

More Ways to Build

You also switch up the supplies if you don’t have marshmallows and toothpicks or switch it up to add a little variety to the activity.

Here are some ideas you could also do to expand on the basic activity:

Gum Drops (instead of Marshmallows)
Peeps (instead of Marshmallows)
Jelly Beans (instead of Marshmallows)
Play Dough (instead of Marshmallows)
Clay (instead of Marshmallows)
Spaghetti (instead of toothpicks)
Pipe cleaners (instead of toothpicks)
Popsicle sticks (instead of toothpicks)
Pretzel sticks (instead of toothpicks)
Straws (instead of toothpicks)

You can switch up any or all the supplies or try them all!

There’s so much this little activity can do!

I love introducing marshmallow and toothpick building to my four year old– and he had so much fun with this as a preschooler!

I also did spaghetti and playdough with my two year old, and that was a hit for a younger age!

However, I’m sure I’ll add some new supplies and new challenges as my kids get older! This is such a versatile activity for toddlers to adults!

What is your favorite way to do this simple activity?