But working for layers of hierarchy in big business is nothing compared to living on the prairie, owning a family business, having control of your destiny and truly being able to impact change in your business and family’s future. Rather than climb, climb, climb up that long corporate ladder, we decided together to jump. Four years ago this month, after…
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Filed Under: Family Values, Fruits, Proteins, Recipes Tagged With: avocado, beef, burritos, cooking with kids, meat, proteins 13 Comments
Kids in the kitchen. They are with me always while trying to pull together something to feed them. It’s a chaotic time but family memories are created that I will cherish forever. We have our eldest who is starving like a pack of wolves teenager and ten years older than his younger sisters. Earlier this week, he pulled together beef…
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Wordless Wednesday: Lil’ Cowgirls Learn to Bottle Feed
Filed Under: America's Farm Table, Family Values Tagged With: agriculture, family, family farm 9 Comments
It’s Wordless Wednesday. Join the link up at the bottom of this post…but first things first. You might remember just over a month ago, we had two nervous and scared lil’ cowgirls visit the calving barn with Uncle Jim and me. But just look how far our lil’ cowgirls have come…in helping Uncle Jim feed a calf that needs bottle…
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My Mom Teaches How To Make Homemade Hair Bows
Filed Under: Motivated Moms Tagged With: crafts, Etsy, hair bows, homemade 3 Comments
My mom is an artist. She is creative. She is a seamstress. She doesn’t want to be known as crafty. But she really knows how to make hair bows for her granddaughters. Actually, I had bows in my hair made by her decades ago. The night before Easter, I showed my mom the dresses I had bought from Etsy for…
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Hunk of Meat Monday: Learn to Grill Hassle Free Ribs
Filed Under: Proteins, Recipes Tagged With: BBQ, cooking, grilling, hunk of meat Monday, meat 14 Comments
With the kick off of May, it’s officially grilling season on the prairie. Despite the crazy non-Spring like weather, we marinated, rubbed and slow cooked pork ribs on the grill yesterday. We are novice grillers compared to many die-hards. As long as the end product turns out yummy, we don’t sweat the details too much. Yesterday’s pork ribs were a…
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