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 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 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 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