Posted May 29, 2025
As you read this post, I am currently on an airplane, and my two best friends from High School and I are celebrating 30 years of friendship in Paris! We’ve been planning this trip for years, and honestly, I can’t believe it’s really happening. Zari, Ilona, and I have been… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Prairie Life
Posted March 31, 2023
The hard truth about adult friendships is that they are difficult! Complicated, tricky, and tough to maintain. But they are also incredibly rewarding, fulfilling, and at times…life-saving. Over the last month, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about WHY maintaining adult friendships is difficult, and I thought I would… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens
Posted September 29, 2020
You’re never going to be good enough. That friend, co-worker, family member, or mom at school that decided to snub you, make you feel less than, talk behind your back, or be flat out aggressively rude to your face… You’re never going to be good enough for them. I’m giving… Read More »
Categories: Health and Wellness, Life As It Happens, Prairie Life
Posted January 8, 2019
Every week over on our Facebook page I do a LIVE Facebook. Last week’s LIVE Facebook was about the SAHM life and how it can be really really hard. A reader had messaged me saying that she was struggling while staying home with her three young children. She wrote that… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted June 28, 2018
Like most of you, I never seem to have enough time for my friends. Yes, I have weekly get togethers with a small core group, but there are so many women that I have connected with over the years that I simply don’t see enough. Lots of times it’s because… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Prairie Life
Posted February 7, 2018
I let you guys know last month that I’m going back to school. I didn’t give many details about the classes…but I have to tell you this first one is causing a bit of a stir. It’s called “Engaging Parents to Increase Student Achievement” and I picked it for a… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Prairie Life
Posted January 22, 2018
One of our readers asked me to write a post about “Girls’ Night Out” I assume she wanted ideas and tips and tricks to make it a blast and memorable. Luckily, my bestie from College is coming into town in a few weeks and she, CollegeBFF and TallGirlJ and I… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Prairie Life
Posted November 29, 2017
I’ve always been open on this blog about the ups and down of my life. From post partum depression to my preventive mastectomy I’ve shared it all. A few months ago I talked about my daily struggle to feel “enough” and how I enlisted the help of GuruJoe. I’ve been… Read More »
Categories: Health and Wellness, Life As It Happens, Prairie Life
Posted October 21, 2015
I HATE PUMPKIN SPICE!!!! Yup, that’s right…I said it. I not only said it, but I also shouted it. I’m coming out of the closet, and I don’t care if they take away my “middle-class stay-at-home mommy” badge because of it. I not only hate Pumpkin Spice Starbucks (oh yeah,… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Prairie Life
Posted August 31, 2015
Once in a while on PrairieWifeInHeels.com, “things” get real, and humor just isn’t appropriate. I’m going to share something today with you, our readers, and I am going to be totally open and honest… I, BonitaBlueEyes, lived in a marriage for far too long that was not working. I did… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Prairie Life
