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 June 13, 2023
In today’s over-scheduled world, it can feel laughable to try and create a Summer Break that is REALLY a break. But I want to encourage you to try! For me keeping our Summer Break as unscheduled as possible started out of pure necessity. It was seven years ago, and I… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted July 3, 2020
There is something about Summer beauty products that make them extra fun. Maybe it’s the permission to use fun bold colors or perhaps it’s the little bit of shimmer we can indulge in…or maybe it’s that we all feel better with a tan? Over the past month there have been… Read More »
Categories: Beauty, Prairie Wife Style
Posted August 9, 2019
As I mentioned earlier this week I have a super busy Fall coming up. The Cowkids go back to school in less than two weeks, and if you follow us on Instagram you know that I am currently back home with Ma and Pa in Wisconsin. I’ve decided to take… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Prairie Life
Posted June 25, 2019
We all know that we need to wear sunscreen. It has been proven to reduce your skin cancer risk and help slow down aging. But there are so many different types and really…how often SHOULD we be reapplying it? We went to the professionals at Stirling Skin Care Clinic and… Read More »
Categories: Beauty, Prairie Wife Style
Posted June 14, 2019
It has been waaay too long since we have done a fashion post here. The reasons are many and varied. One is the program I used to design all the super cool click and buy collages is no longer active. Another is the simple fact that I don’t have as… Read More »
Categories: Fashion, Prairie Wife Style
Posted June 19, 2018
Summer 2018 is finally here and I am SO excited that along with it arrived my second Trunk Club box! I loved my first one and have gotten tons of compliments on the blazer and shoes I kept from the box. This time I asked for some Summer items that… Read More »
Categories: Fashion, Prairie Wife Style
Posted June 7, 2018
Today is the last day of school, and the first day of Summer Break. The Angels above are singing…do you hear them? When I underwent my Preventive Mastectomy two years ago I had to make a really hard decision…aside from the obvious. My surgery was the end of April and… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted June 5, 2018
Two more days… Two more days and ALL of the Cowkids will officially be out of school for Summer Break. I am probably more excited then they are. No more frantic early mornings rushing around. 10 hours a week LESS driving back and forth to town. Sunshine, time with the… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Prairie Life
Posted May 25, 2018
I’m counting down the days until Summer, and each morning, it’s getting harder and harder to drag myself and the Cowkids into town before that first bell rings… I know I’m not the only one, and as a former teacher, my heart goes out to all those educators who are… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
