I am diving deeper into cooking in the Germans from Russia heritage and culture that I am immersed in on the prairie. With the brisk fall air, I decided to cook my first pot of knoephla soup. In my true cooking fashion, I did not use a recipe…and I “cheated” a bit on making the soup. I am sure the…
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Updated: Pray For Townes Today
Filed Under: Family Values, Misc. Tagged With: faith, love, prayer, praying 1 Comment
My former college roommate and friend, Sara Stevenson Hale and her husband Aaron’s youngest son Townes needs your prayers today regarding complications closing up his chest yesterday following his heart related arch reconstruction and Fontan surgery in Los Angeles yesterday. Please visit the CaringBridge site to read the journal. Townes lost a lot of blood. He was stabilized and needs…
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Mommy Daughter Prairie Walk & Toss
Filed Under: Life in North Dakota Tagged With: North Dakota, prairie, prairie life, rural life 2 Comments
The days are getting shorter on the North Dakota prairie but the fall like weather remains beautiful. Cooler evenings forewarn us of the weather that is just around the corner. Soon we’ll be bundling up and not running in the hayfield. Knowing that, we have been taking as many evening walks as we can. Last night Miss E and I…
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Circus Sunday In The Back Pew
Filed Under: Life in North Dakota, Motivated Moms Tagged With: being a mom, motherhood, prairie life 1 Comment
I love Sundays in our little rural church. It is where generations of families sit in the same pew every Sunday, where adults learn just as much or more from the children’s sermon about always searching for the lost sheep than the kids do, where we sang Happy Birthday to the local man turning 80 years old today, where our 2…
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Input Needed For Community Social Media Class
Filed Under: Motivated Moms Tagged With: social media 9 Comments
This weekend, I am going to prepare to teach an evening community education class to be held on two Tuesday nights on social media basics. I need your insight, help and comments…please! The class is open to anyone and is $5. If you are local, please join me at 7PM on Tuesday at the school. It is the first community…
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