As a Baseball Mom, it can be challenging to come up with healthy and balanced meals that will fuel your athlete on weeknights when you're short on time. One option that is easy and fast to pull together is a Protein and Grain Bowl. Grain bowls are versatile, satisfying, and easy to make. Perfect for meal prep, you can pull together a gra[...]
Your child's week at Cooperstown All Star Village is going to be fun, memorable, and exhausting. Staying in the bunkhouse with their teammates is part of what makes the trip so memorable. It also makes it challenging for parents to pack, not knowing exactly what your son will need during the week. Here are some tips and a link to our pri[...]
My family just returned from a trip to Maryland to watch my older son's team compete in the Youth World Series Ocean City. What a great trip we had! For East Coast families, Maryland is a perfect location for a summer baseball tournament, with beautiful beaches and plenty of activities for the family. Planning any travel baseball trip ca[...]
Baseball card collecting is one of those hobbies that can be enjoyed by both young kids and adults. If your kids are anything like mine, they have accumulated a huge amount of card over the years. If you want the best ways to manage your kids' valuable baseball card collection, you're in the right place. Here are some of our favorite ide[...]
Each Spring, just as baseball season kicks off, Baseball Moms everywhere struggle with the daily stress of meal planning and preparation. We want to make sure our growing athletes are eating healthy, but the fact is we are always short on time! Weeknight practices that run over, early morning away games, or those Sunday night championshi[...]
When you have to be out the door early in the morning to take your ball player to a game or practice, you need an easy grab-and-go breakfast option. Overnight oats are a healthy, carbohydrate- and protein-rich breakfast that can be eaten easily in the car on the way to the field. My versatile Vanilla Overnight Oats recipe can be customiz[...]
Winter baseball training and basketball has started, and that means that we are back to crazy weeknights! At least 5 nights a week we are running the kids back and forth to basketball or the baseball training facility. Maybe it's the fact that it turns pitch black at 4:30 pm, or the fact that it's been cold and miserable and rainy latel[...]
One of my favorite things to do as Baseball Mom is to start shopping for Christmas gifts early, usually as soon as Fall Ball ends (here in NJ, our season ended last week). Now is the best time to snag some great deals, and also ensure that everything arrives on time for Christmas (especially since shipping times seem to be longer than us[...]
The perfect finishing touch to every Christmas Morning The final touch to all your Christmas shopping is giving the little gifts (baseball stocking stuffers) as well as maybe one 'bigger', not necessarily expensive, gift (a unique gift or experience). The following post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I[...]
As parents, we live for the excitement we see in our children's eyes on Christmas morning. There is nothing better than watching the magic of Christmas morning unfold - the audible excitement as younger siblings find new toys under the tree, the joy when your tween finds out you gave him the bat he's been begging for for our months, or t[...]