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
Posted February 9, 2014
From the moment I found out I was first going to be a mom, I thought to myself, what kind of mom will I be? In my mind I made a list of the mom I wanted to be. A mom that loved, listened and believed in her children, and… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted February 8, 2014
This post was written by Texas Two Steppin’ I am an Olympic junkie and have been since I was born. According to one story told by Ma and Pa, I was a colicky baby who only settled down when they put me in front of the black and white TV… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens
Posted February 8, 2014
Prairie Wife: I am so pleased that my good friend and neighbor, Prairie Faith, nominated our Prairie Wife of the Week Donna Boucher of the blog Quiet Life to be our YOU PICK Prairie Wife of the Week! And even more pleased, that “Miz Booshay” was gracious enough to answer… Read More »
Categories: Prairie Wife of the Week
Posted February 2, 2014
I met with a friend of mine (sweetNsmiley) a few weeks ago, for coffee. First I have to quickly plug this awesome local coffee shop, The Metro. It has wonderful drinks and goodies to eat, as well as a super cool and casual atmosphere. The back end of the shop has… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens
