Posted December 23, 2022
I’m learning to be still…again. It seems to be a lesson that I have to relearn repeatedly at various points in my life, and apparently, now is one of those times. At the beginning of October, I left my job at My Country 95.5, and while it was a hard… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Prairie Life
Posted December 12, 2022
Wyoming Food For Thought Project is an organization that is near and dear to my heart, and because of that, I want to encourage you to join me in my Stuff The Van 2022 Business Challenge. I first met Jamie the founder and Executive Director of Wyoming Food For Thought… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Prairie Life
Posted December 9, 2022
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year…” Songs, commercials, social media posts, t-shirts… The messages about how the holidays are the most wonderful time of the year are EVERYWHERE. So, I just wanted to take a moment to remind you that what makes the Holidays the most wonderful time… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens
Posted December 6, 2022
It’s time to announce our books for the Prairie Wife Virtual Book Club: December 2022! This monthly Virtual Book Club is all thanks to Wind City Books, an Indie Bookstore in Downtown Casper, Wyoming. We will have three monthly books as part of our Prairie Wife Virtual Book Club. One Children’s… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens
Posted December 5, 2022
“You can have a turn when I’m done.” It’s a phrase that is repeated often around here and one that my children learn to say at a young age. In a family with 5 children, one thing my kids all learned to do when they were pretty young was share.… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted November 29, 2022
When I announced my three-week-long solo trip to England , the number one thing I heard was, “Aren’t you scared to travel alone?” The Cowboy also received numerous phone calls and texts asking him how he could let me travel so far away by myself. To his credit, The Cowboy… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens
Posted November 22, 2022
It’s time for our 2022 Holiday Gift Guide and giveaway! NOTE: Giveaway Is Now Finished Are you as excited as I am? If you take the time to go through the entire 2022 Holiday Gift Guide, you’ll see that all you HAVE to do to enter our Giveaway is leave… Read More »
Categories: #GiveAways, Product Reviews, Reviews
Posted November 15, 2022
This 3 Ingredient Cherry Chocolate Dump Cake wasn’t technically invented by “Grandma Connie” (my mother-in-law), but the entire reason I tried to make a dump cake was her influence! The last time I traveled out of town to emcee an event, I found myself in the same town as her,… Read More »
Categories: Recipes, This and That
Posted November 11, 2022
“Ask before you post” is a rule that started around here about seven years ago. It’s a rule that I think everyone should have, even if they don’t have a public platform like me. While I have been blogging for nine years, I didn’t put up pictures of the Cowkids’… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted November 8, 2022
As a child, I never participated in any sports. Never. And as I dreamed about my future as a mother, kids who participated in sports weren’t anywhere in the picture. But, as our kids became school-age, I started to dip my toes into what it meant to be a “sports… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting, Prairie Life