• Life as I Know It

    10 Reasons Women Shouldn’t Play Fantasy Football

    Well, regular season football officially began last night and while my fantasy team is still waiting to get out of the gates, I’m super stoked that the season is finally underway. We hosted the Labor Day draft party again this year and I’m playing commissioner to our league for the second season straight. Since I was runner-up last year, I picked ninth out of a ten-team league but came up with a roster I think is strong in some spots and disappointing in others (Ya, who didn’t, right?). Sometimes when I fess to my fellow moms that I run a league with my husband and have my own fantasy football team, they are…

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    Are You Ready for Some Football?

    Call me Commish. Yes, as in commissioner. . . commissioner of our new fantasy football league. My husband and I left our old league we had been in for several years in hopes of starting our own light-hearted yet competitive league of our own. Since I’m comfortable with the Real Time Sports league software (and the stay-at-home-mom), I volunteered to wear the commissioner hat and set up this silly little pastime we call fun. So with ten teams in the league and my husband and I owning our own rosters for the first time ever,  we officially kicked off the football season with a live draft at our home yesterday…