Posted March 19, 2025
The following is a copy of the Stalking Case Timeline: Gillian Holman *This timeline was created by Cathy Holman using the evidence she began collecting in November 2023. Nov 15, 2023: Texts made to look like they were from Gillian Holman (victim) are sent to Preston Sorensen (victim) and another… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Most Popular Posts, Parenting, Prairie Life
Posted March 19, 2025
The following is a copy of the Stalking Case Timeline: Preston Sorensen *This timeline was created by Brandi Sorensen using the evidence she began collecting in August, 2023. 2023 July – Preston was dating K.S. (Marcie Smith’s daughter) but they decided to take a break while still seeing each other,… Read More »
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Posted February 7, 2025
Being asked to be table help at wrestling tournaments for the first time can be terrifying! You’re in charge of scoring, timing, and recording the final result of matches…that’s a lot of pressure. And depending on the size of the tournament, you could be doing this for 8 hours and… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting, Prairie Life
Posted January 20, 2025
As a mother of 5 children, I learned a long time ago about having “hard conversations.” As a mother of 3 teenagers and 2 tweens, I want to add to that list of hard conversations that you HAVE to talk about sex and drugs. Before we take a deep dive… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted August 19, 2024
It’s not just the moms who struggle with their children growing older. I think that because it’s more socially acceptable for women to be emotional when it comes to their children, we forget that significant transitions and changes impact the entire family. When I began considering what to write for… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted July 19, 2024
Summer and schedule are two words that don’t go hand in hand around here. We’ve been living this way for over 8 years. It was something that began when I was first forced to let go of all of my Summer expectations because of my Preventive Mastectomy Surgery. Living schedule-free… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted May 28, 2024
Be okay with crying. That will be a recurring theme during the process of saying goodbye to your senior. And by “saying goodbye to your senior,” I don’t mean sending them off to school in the Fall, or their Summer trip across Europe, or their apartment and the future they… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted May 3, 2024
“They” say having a tween or teen son, and raising them to be good men of strong moral character in today’s culture is harder than it ever was before. I genuinely have no idea if this is true or not. This is, after all, my first time doing this! But,… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted March 15, 2024
Planning a vacation with tweens and teens can be overwhelming, and as someone who currently has five kids ranging in age from 18 to 9, I get it! We recently traveled to the Texas Coast for our family vacation and took along two bonus teenagers. It was a fantastic vacation,… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted November 14, 2023
Writing college application essays is one of the scariest parts of the college application process. There are several reasons for this, but I genuinely think that it’s because most people hate writing! Thankfully (or not, depending on who/when you ask), the Cowkids have me as a mother. I make my… Read More »
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