On October 6, 2014, my grandparents, Oscar and Nola, celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary. In a time when divorce continues to be on the rise, I think it is important to stop and honor the legacies of long-lasting marriages we are surrounded by in the Midwest. I know there are long marriages everywhere. But it seems farm and rural values,…
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How many of us can say we have five generations of family living all within driving distance? Very few. It’s a special, living legacy gift and one that we have in our family that starts with our Great Aunt Iris, who never married and is my late great-grandfather Odin’s sister. We are Iris’s family. She has been a mentor to…
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Today, rather than add to my 42 draft blog posts that I have yet to finish, I am going to tell you what happened at lunch at our house over the noon hour and not just leave it to myself in a drafts folder. This happened. Look at the below picture. A jar of relish on my counter. A husband…
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It’s time for another North Dakota giveaway. I love babies. I love North Dakota, my home state celebrating its 125th birthday this year. I love small businesses. I love working from home and supporting other women like me growing businesses from their homes, like my friend Erica of Bison Booties. I have gotten to know Erica over the past few…
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Whether you live in a small town, city, suburb, in the middle of a sprawling field or tucked away in trees, we all have a community that we call our own. I have lived on the edge of my husband’s hometown for over seven years. We are a thousand people in a county of less than three thousand people. There…
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