When Miss E was about Miss A’s age she had to wear a pink cast on her broken leg. My friend Julie and her daughter Miss Lauren sent Miss E the book Pinkalicious in mail as a pink get-well-soon gift. It quickly became the most read book around our house. I have been a Pinkalicious type girl since I could…
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Most Beautiful Treasure Hunting Find
Filed Under: Misc. Tagged With: treasure hunting 2 Comments
Early in the fall, Miss E and I went treasure hunting on the prairie to our friend’s local auction sale. Miss E and I found a fabulous Capiz shell lamp and purchased it for a deal.Rather to keep it at our house, it was delivered 80 miles across the prairie to my sister and brother-in-law’s house.I love the lamp and I…
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My Grandma’s Perfect Pecan Pie Recipe
Filed Under: Dessert Tagged With: baking, pie baking 1 Comment
You are about to learn how to make the best pecan pie…ever. Are you ready? The best pecan pie is baked by my grandma on our North Dakota farm. Grandma Nola earned a bachelor’s degree in home economics 60 years ago. You can read on GriggsDakota about my grandma’s lifelong commitment to providing food for our farm family. She is rare…
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Wordless Wednesday: Screaming For The Camera
Filed Under: Family Values, Motivated Moms Tagged With: kids, motherhood, raising a family 2 Comments
Happy 17 months today to our normally sincere, sweet and serene baby girl…who didn’t feel like smiling for the camera. Instead she screamed for us as her top four teeth cut through…all at once. But her big brother still had a happy face for the camera! And now Miss A will proudly smile a big grin and show you her…
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Why We All Need A Little Twitter, Pioneer Woman & Whiskey
Filed Under: Life in North Dakota Tagged With: Pioneer Woman, prairie life, Ree Drummond, social media, Twitter, whiskey 8 Comments
Last Tuesday night when I could have been folding laundry or packing for our holiday weekend, I instead was doing my typical social media lurking on Twitter. A tweet caught my eye from The Pioneer Woman aka Ree Drummond “Tomorrow I will post my recipe to Whiskey Maple Cream Sauce from Throwdown.” Now I already felt like I had really…
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