We are in Boston for our first family SUMMER vacation. Nathan did most of the planning in the early winter. Together we both threw out cities as ideas and areas we visited in past business travel or childhood family vacations. We chose a Boston family vacation. It’s a place neither of us have traveled to as adults and offers an array of…
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I took a month off…
Filed Under: Family Values Tagged With: family, loss, prairie life, random act of kindness, sharing your voice 1 Comment
We never get to take a month off of living life but a few of you are starting to get worried now that I’ve taken a month off of blogging. It was purposeful and I am starting to blog again. After Anika’s accident I needed to spend extra time with her. Then it was huge preparations for Hunter’s graduation, the…
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An accident, ambulance ride & recovery
Filed Under: Family Values 8 Comments
This past Sunday afternoon, I convinced my daughters to take a “ten minute nap” with me before we went outside to plant our gardens and pot flowers. Elizabeth didn’t close her eyes and as soon as the ten minutes were up she was rallying her sister, Anika and me to get up for planting time. The girls got up and…
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A senior prom on the prairie
Filed Under: Life in North Dakota Tagged With: kids, milestones, rural life 2 Comments
Hunter attended his fourth and final prom, his senior prom. Proms on the North Dakota prairie are simpler and smaller than larger towns and cities. There are not expensive restaurant reservations to book. There are not limousines to rent cruising around our small town. The grand march, dance and post-prom party are all held in the school gymnasiums. No pictures…
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I am not a farm widow
Filed Under: America's Farm Table Tagged With: family farm, farming, marriage, small business owners 9 Comments
I’m not a farm widow. This time of year when the tractors and planters start rolling in our area farm fields I start hearing from a few lonely spouses and the “farm widow” chatter starts picking up on social media. “Farm widow” refers to a spouse, often a wife, left at home while her farmer-husband is planting from dawn to well…
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