There’s just something about a table full of friends that makes me happy. I am not the fanciest hostess but I believe hospitality makes the biggest impact. Your home can be perfect, your table setting straight from Pinterest, and you can make the most incredible food,...
I’ve been reading up on cheap skate ideas. Pinning ideas on how to eat on $40 dollars a month. I’ve also tried to reuse, make my own, eat out less, and shop on a budget…that’s a joke, I do two out of five. Instead of a what to do, we can all learn from...
Lately, I’ve been disappointed in the dwindling fire within myself, others, and the church. And I’m making a call out to us as Christians, don’t grow cold, don’t grow weary, don’t fear but quickly fan the embers we have left. If we don’t…. the fire within us will...
Originally written for Nevada Rancher Magazine He had worked night after night, once his newborn daughter and three year old son had gone to bed. The dim lights of his shop illuminated their little piece of Heaven on the ranch. Ranch house, pens, a little shop, a few...
Originally written for Tri-State Livestock News What the heck was I thinking? I would do the t shirt orders at church, line up ladies to cook a week worth of meals for a friend, returning home from heart surgery, no problem. Hey, why don’t I teach Wrangler church,...
Originally written for Nevada Rancher Magazine, titled “How Does The Ranch Wife Fit Into Proverbs 31” A good ranch wife…. who can find? She is worth far more than turquoise, The high dollar cutting horse, Or registered bull. Her husband has full confidence...
I have been wanting to write this for a long time. I wanted to make sure though that I could be as real, as authentic as possible without being over the top. Not…I repeat, NOT trying to get you to “feel” sorry for me. I don’t know if I can even say...
When I was a young mom, my husband and I moved into a rough looking little house on 80 acres. The sink was propped up on boards, the walls were sheetrock with no tape and bedding on them. The flooring was plywood, that had been stained by the former owners pets,...
I wished more than anything on this day I could peer into the box, hidden high on the closet shelf. The box that holds those special things that I get out once in a blue moon. The things that remind me of certain memories in life. A flower off a parade...
Yes it’s true, it’s time to find someone else. Someone who is better at this than me. Someone who’s got it all together. Find someone funnier, cooler, crafty….someone organized. Find someone who does something for ya! It’s come to this….and the...
