Prairie Garden

What a wonderful Christmas Week we've had: several Christmas celebrations and a string of visitors, including two of my brothers & a...

Remember the delicious meatball & tomato sauce recipe I posted awhile back? The one I was ooooing and ahhhhing over? The one that made ...

Starbeans has been singing D i n g l e B e l l s of late. Dingle bells Dingle bells Dingle all da way!

We keep a limited number of children's books downstairs at our house; most of them are upstairs, on a big blue bookshelf, in the Reading...

Awww...holding hands, even I think it looks like Pumpkin got a surprise pinch in the butt for this picture. He's so cute (and has grown...

I've been feeling like my life is in fast forward and I just can't keep up with it. Not necessarily going too quickly, but more like...

My sister calls Lithops "butt plants" because they have a little crack down the center. They are succulents and exist amongst my ...

We've been sick over here. Starbeans is still finishing with his congestion, but I don't think that is where we got it [he got it fr...

I don't have much of interest to say, unfortunately. I've been reading Confessions of a Pioneer Woman and laughing so hard that spi...

Dub-la-ooo (over and over and over again)

We bought a quarter of a cow from a local farmer this year. I haven't eaten or cooked much red meat in my adult years, but I am interest...

I just looked at a blog, Confessions of a Pioneer Woman , that had 1335 comments on one post. Wow. I mean, how do you even sift through that...

Aren't they sweet? I feel very good about where we are at right now: we finally have a rhythm down and caring for two kids each day seem...

One! Two! Pree! Pour! Pive! Bix! Seben! Ate! Nine! Two!!!

The Life of a Day Tom Hennen Like people or dogs, each day is unique and has its own personality quirks which can easily be seen if you loo...

Today I am making 15 Bean Soup, a recipe I got from Squeeze's maternal grandmother, who in turn, got it from her oldest daughter. It end...

A lot of people may not realize the level of care provided by midwives. Sure, they're there for the labor and delivery; but do people kn...