There is a reason I love Little House On The Prairie. I mean, there are a lot of reasons. But one of the biggest reasons is I really envy that way of life. The living off the land. The self-sufficiency. The simplicity. Life was so much more difficult in many ways back then. But in […]
LIttle House on the Prairie
Day 22: Lunch a la Little House On The Prairie (And Delicious & Easy Baked Penne )
I have been enjoying cooking for my family. And my family has also been enjoying me cooking for them. Number 4 said to me, “Mom, you have been making some really good food, and I just wanted to tell you that I really appreciate it.” That little acknowledgment meant A LOT to me. We haven’t […]
The (re)Institution of Family Movie Night
If you’ve been reading my blog posts over the last couple weeks you know I’m going through a little bit of a… thing. An awakening. You know, as I sit here typing this, it’s really probably my version of a mid-life crisis. Or more like a mid-life breakthrough. I turned 50 last September, and I […]
Faces In The Window
Tonight we found ourselves in the rare situation where we were all home before 7 pm on a Friday night. This hasn’t happened since August. Normally I’d take this opportunity to catch up on a few things. But earlier today I came across this post I shared on Facebook two years ago: And then you […]
Lessons From Little House On The Prairie
My parents gave me the entire Little House On The Prairie DVD set for Christmas a few years ago. It is one of my favorite gifts to date. We started watching it as a family then, but the three little guys were really too little to get it, and we only made it the beginning […]
She gets it.
Earlier this week after doing a lot of thinking about Christmas and how it had become out of control and how the kids weren’t really all that appreciative of the gifts they were getting and how we just have way to much crap in our house, I talked to Number 3, 4 and 5 about how […]