There were footsteps on our rooftop this week. Had Santa had forgotten to give me a few Christmas gifts and was making a return visit to the prairie in our Arctic blast? I quickly rose from my desk chair to see what was the matter. Outside my home office window jumped… not Santa but instead Caleb, working on our…
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Farmers in the snow visit with Mike Rowe
Filed Under: America's Farm Table Tagged With: AFBF, AFBF 2011 annual meeting, agriculture, Dirty Jobs, family farms, Mike Rowe 6 Comments
I spent the earlier part of the week in iced covered, snowed in Atlanta. I was accompanied by 6,000 American farmers attending the American Farm Bureau annual meeting. It didn’t slow down the meetings or events but the weather stopped everything else in Atlanta. Farmers are resilient. They can deal with snow, ice, no maid service in our hotel, no…
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Wordless Working Mom Wednesday: A Surprise In My Suitcase
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As I packed for my kick-off to 2011 working mom business travel earlier this week I went to the laundry room to grab a few things. Imagine my surprise when I returned to see the surprise that had packed herself. If life was easy enough that she could just hop right in and go to every meeting with me I…
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Moms and Bloggers Who Became My Friends
Filed Under: Motivated Moms Tagged With: being a mom, motherhood, motivated moms, working mom 6 Comments
Through blogging, Twitter and Facebook I have connected with hundreds of women over the past couple years. The greatest advantage I found is that online engagement connects me to like-minded moms. Their thinking, life experiences, faith, ideas on parenting, activities for their kids, family struggles, successes and energy give me encouragement as a mother, wife and friend. Over the last…
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Fresh Sushi on the prairie
Filed Under: America's Farm Table Tagged With: AFBF, agriculture, annual meeting, sushi 3 Comments
Fresh sushi arrived via FedEx from Seattle to the prairie yesterday for a special birthday lunch. It arrived in cooler on dry ice. I was tickled. Sushi in the dead of winter is rarity on the prairie. Actually sushi in the geographical center of North America (just look up Rugby, North Dakota to learn that factoid) is a delicacy all…
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