Musings of a Badlands Ranch Wife

Mom, Nana, ranch wife, and school teacher living each day with hope, grace, and resilience

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Greetings from the Plains and Badlands of the upper Midwest. My personal journey from city girl to ranch wife, Mom, Nana, and high school teacher has been blessed with adventures, challenges, triumphs, and failures- nothing that one could claim as unique, just all part of God’s plan for me. Join me on this journey, laugh with me, ponder with me, and maybe we can travel the road ahead together.

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  • We Need More Bells

    Bells and the Christmas season- can you have one without the other? Sleigh bells ring, jingling all the way, while we go caroling, caroling, caroling to the sounds of silver bells on a sleigh ride through a beautiful white Christmas.  Whew- not easy combining songs into one sentence! If you truly believe, you can hear…

  • Cows and Kids

    I am a rancher’s wife and a rancher’s mom. For some, that might not mean a lot, but for those who have walked in the shoes behind a rancher, you know where I am coming from. Now, do not get me wrong, I love being a rancher’s wife as much as I love teaching. Really,…

  • Faith, Optimism, and Letting Go

    Okay, it is true- I may be a bit of a control freak. If we are truly honest with ourselves, we all may have some form of this classic syndrome. Unfortunately, we tend to crave control over things that are completely out of our control. But isn’t that human nature? Do we crave this control…

  • It is all about the raisins..

    Where did summer go? It is already August, about time for me to go back to teaching, and I am wondering how time flew by so fast. That really is the story for all of us- where did the time go? My husband and I celebrated our 37th wedding anniversary in May of this year.…

  • Well, I Heard…

    Well, I heard… three of the most dangerous words I know. It seems that every time I hear these three words, they are followed by gossip. And to be truly honest, I have heard these words come out of my own mouth, followed by things that I have heard and feel like I should pass…

  • Summer Break

    This one is for all my fellow teachers and parents… It’s here people- summer break. Not sure how this year went for all of you, but I feel like this year whipped by me and I have been running to catch up- which reminds me of airports. I know- where the heck is she going…

  • Not My Plan

    I can truly tell you that creating a site to post blogs has never been on my radar- until now. I love to tell stories, but putting into words all the crazy things that make their way into my thoughts and actions is not quite as easy. Sometimes we need to hear the laughter from…