Posted January 18, 2022
Letting go…instead of loading up. New Year’s Resolutions…The most foolproof way to ensure feelings of failure when we inevitably fall off the train comes mid-February. Some of us can see these unresolved goals as a joke, but the reality is that too often, we are left feeling anxious with low… Read More »
Categories: Health and Wellness, Parenting, This and That
Posted August 14, 2021
Take your children with you. To church, to temple, or the movies, or an outdoor concert, or the museum…or the grocery store. Somewhere along the line, we were taught that it’s not okay for kids to have bad days, and bad moments. As a mom, I have ALWAYS felt a… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted June 11, 2021
“Work first, then you can play.” It’s an often-repeated phrase around here, and one that is harder than you’d think to follow through on…even as an adult! After all, there are lots of times when I put off work to play…yet I find myself telling the Cowkids ALL THE TIME… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted February 5, 2019
Slowly but surely over the last year, I’ve been tiptoeing back into the life a working mom. Yes, I’ve had several work from home jobs over the last two years, but it was all work I could do sitting at the counter in my jammies while holding a toddler or nursing… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Prairie Life
Posted July 8, 2016
I love Summer, absolutely love it! That being said there are some challenges that come with three months of having all five Cowkids with me 24/7. I thought I’d share a few tried and true tricks that help me, in the hopes that it may make surviving Summer vacation a bit… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted November 20, 2015
I have always said that nothing knocks you to your knees like being a parent…and these past few weeks I feel like I’ve been on my knees more often then I’ve been standing. It’s pretty much common knowledge that “the terrible two’s” is actually completely inaccurate. Anyone that has a… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens
Posted January 7, 2015
If you are just reading my ADHD posts for the first time I encourage you to start by reading ADHD Part 1: Pre-Diagnosis and ADHD Part 2: The Diagnosis. Although medicine can help a child who truly has ADHD (especially during school hours) stay focused, it doesn’t make life perfect!… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens
Posted March 28, 2014
So much of this blog is based on what Texas Two Steppin’ and I feel like writing about. Or things that are currently in the news (mostly fashion and beauty news but that counts). We thought it would be fun to let you, our readers, get a chance to ask… Read More »
Categories: Prairie Wife of the Week
Posted November 15, 2013
Not to brag or anything, but I am an old pro at traveling with children. I’ve got three 20 plus hour road trips under my belt. And almost monthly we travel two or more hours with our kids around the state of Wyoming. With Ma and Pa living over 1,000… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens
