I was panicked. It was our county fair two summers ago and I had to bring bars to a FFA Alumni fundraiser. I had a 19 month old, a two week old, a baseball playing son and thankfully my GriggsDakota mom was staying at our house. She calmly looked at me and said, “You’re going to make Seven Layer Bars….
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I never understood why my mom cooked venison when we were kids. I didn’t like it. But I tried it. She snuck it into things with out telling us it wasn’t beef. Eventually, we all liked venison. On the prairie, eating wild game is a normal way of life. We need to hunt or the land becomes overrun like what…
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A Minneapolis diamond "In the Ghetto"
Have you ever found a diamond in the rough? An unexpected treasure? It catches you off guard, refreshes your outlook and this weekend the gemstone we found on the south side of Minneapolis was just that. That “In the Ghetto” song kept playing through my head this weekend because that is where I thought we were headed. My mom had…
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The pressure is there to be a stay-at-home-mom (SAHM as the lingo goes). Blogs, articles, chat rooms, friends, relatives all offer up the advantages to being a SAHM. But I don’t think there is enough shared and said on why it is okay to be a working mom. Maybe it is because all the moms that are working and balancing…
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