Posted January 2, 2017
There is something about a New Year that just makes you want to be better! Here at PrairieWifeInHeels.com we’re all about helping support you to become the best you can be ALL year long but, we just love to start out each year with a few goals. Taking the time… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Prairie Life
Posted December 26, 2016
It’s the day after Christmas and it’s time for my family’s annual Christmas Hangover. No, I’m not talking about the kind caused by indulging in too much eggnog (though Santa DID bring me a bottle of Patron Silver) but, the effects are somewhat similar. Sluggish and tired, cranky and irritable…around here the day… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens
Posted December 16, 2016
Dearest Husband, Tis the season for gift giving…and I’m just going to be honest…you can’t win! I get it, I’m a hormonal, selfish complicated ungrateful woman. I thank you from the bottom of my dark soul for loving me anyway. This year, like every other, when you asked me what… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens
Posted December 7, 2016
If you follow us on Facebook you may have seen this post that I put up earlier this week… I don’t judge those of you that have an Elf on a Shelf…I get the appeal! The kids love them, it’s an awesome tool to help keep your kids in check, and it’s… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens
Posted December 2, 2016
If you read the title to this post you already know that I was able to participate in a teleconference with the one and only, always amazing, Dolly Parton…and yet again…I was unable to actually ask her a question. I wasn’t nearly as nervous this time around. Not that I’m a… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens
Posted November 14, 2016
This week’s Prairie Wife offers all of us a great opportunity to learn more about a disease that we hear about all the time, Cystic Fibrosis. If you’re like me you only have a vague notion about what it entails, and what life would be like if you have Cystic… Read More »
Categories: Prairie Wife of the Week
Posted November 11, 2016
Hello everyone, Mary Poppins again. Or should I say, plain, old boring Vikki… Now that I am back in the UK – I am just your average nobody. I don’t have lengthy conversations with shop assistants, no one comments on my accent and no one knows who I am. I… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens
Posted November 9, 2016
My father was a farmer’s son, one of nine children, the only one to graduate from college. I am America. He left his job to follow a dream, to become a small business owner with my mother by his side. I am America. Times were hard and money was tight.… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens
Posted October 31, 2016
It’s Halloween! One of my favorite holidays! As always, The Cowboy and I held our annual Pumpkin carving contest. The theme this year was AMERICA (for obvious reasons) and Cowboy J insisted that now that he is in middle school he gets to participate. On Friday we helped all the… Read More »
Categories: #GiveAways, Life As It Happens
Posted October 28, 2016
I first met this week’s Prairie Wife of the Week 7 years ago when our sons attended the same preschool. I was immediately drawn to her vibrant personality, intelligence, and tell-it like-it-is attitude. We spent most of our time together being those obnoxious women who are always laughing too loud.… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Prairie Wife of the Week
