Posted March 1, 2014
The Cowboy and I work really hard to get time away from our herd of Cowkids at least once a month for date night. As you all know this can be super tricky between balancing him being gone and finding a babysitter. More often than not our date night slips… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens
Posted February 28, 2014
Addition: Since this interview was posted Lelia has established her own shop. Feel free to contact Leila through her shop Sweet Misery Electric Tattoo (make sure you LIKE her FB page (and ours)) or WilcoxLeila@yahoo.com (307)441-4379 As most of our readers know I am a city girl living in a… Read More »
Categories: Prairie Wife of the Week
Posted February 26, 2014
“A Whisper Is Like the Shadow of a Shout” This quote from self-published author Jarod Kintz really resonated with me when I read it. It totally captures the first step I took when I needed to discipline my stepchildren. Taking corrective action with “steps” is a tricky thing. You can’t… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens
Posted February 24, 2014
It’s a big week here on the Prairie Homestead. Our little Cowbaby turns one this week, sniff. It’s always such an overwhelming day for me. On one hand I am so proud of this sweet little boy and how he has grown from a tiny little baby that can only… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted February 21, 2014
In December I introduced you to one of my friends, Texas Smiles, and now you get to meet her wonderful sister-in-law, Lindsey. I met Lindsey and her precious family a few summers ago at the lake, and we bonded when I asked her where she got her cute embroidered tote… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Prairie Wife of the Week
Posted February 19, 2014
Around the Prairie Homestead keeping things clean can be a bit of a struggle! More often than not as I get done cleaning one area of the house and move on to another the Cowkids and Cowbaby are right behind me making it messy again. Most of the time I… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted February 17, 2014
As I’ve mentioned before, Prairie Wife and I do most of our blog planning by email or text. So when we started discussing February ideas, she asked if I could write something for President’s Day. No problem. Could I somehow tie it to raising a daughter? I bit trickier, but… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens
Posted February 14, 2014
I am usually the stereotypical tough Prairie Wife. CollegeBFF and TallGirlJ can probably count on less than one hand, the number of times they have seen me cry. But, during this interview with Katie it took all of my energy not to hysterically break down in the middle of Starbucks.… Read More »
Categories: Prairie Wife of the Week
Posted February 10, 2014
One of the joys of having a whole herd of children is seeing who each child resembles in personality and looks. Our first child, Cowboy J looks almost exactly like The Cowboy, we even had an Asian man come up to us at the airport and say “He is your… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted February 10, 2014
A little over a month ago one of our contributors TallGirlJ wrote a wonderfully inspiring post about going “yell free.” I had originally planned on writing the post myself, but felt that having my readers learn from the friend that inspired me would be much better than hearing about it… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens
