By Kristine Jacobson & Karen Nelson It’s harvest season in Nebraska. As farmers’ wives, we watch our husbands work long hours and plan their schedules based on the day’s weather forecast. We have learned that we can’t worry about the things we cannot control (windstorms, hail and corn prices) and to support our husbands as they raise a crop that helps feed the world and … [Read more...]
To My Fellow Class of 2018 Parents
The senior pictures of our kids have been popping up on Facebook throughout the summer. Our little munchkins look beautiful, handsome and all-of-a-sudden grown up. It is their time to shine. They are seniors. And, we are senior parents. Many of our kids were millennial babies, born in the year 2000. As the world worried about Y2K, we were reading “What To Expect When You … [Read more...]
Life Lessons Learned at the County Fair
It’s county fair week in my corner of Nebraska. Like many farm (and city!) families, it’s a week of celebrating many months (or years) of hard work on projects such as cooking, sewing, rocket launching and animal raising. I am sharing an article I wrote for Her View From Home a few years ago as a reminder of WHY – why we spend countless evenings mingling with stinky animals on … [Read more...]
When You Are From A Small Town …..
A trip to the grocery store is a major social event because you will see between two and ten people you know, and you will have to stop and visit. Your hair stylist is also your daughter’s basketball coach, and she picks your son up from football practice for his haircut while she is picking up her own kids. Your teen-age son dates the daughters of at least two former … [Read more...]
How to Plant A Garden With Tweens and Make Them Like It
It was a windy, chilly Sunday afternoon, but I decided we were going to get out of the house and do something. So I pulled my two 12-years olds away from their screens and drove them to a local greenhouse. Although it seems all the world is a bore to a sixth grader, they didn’t resist as much as I thought they would. I think they secretly still enjoy spending time doing fun … [Read more...]