Ranch Wife's Slant

Month: December 2011

  • What I Made My Kids For Christmas: T-Shirt Quilts

    The one gift I was most excited about giving my kids this year were the t-shirt quilts I made for them. I could hardly wait until Christmas for them to open these gifts. I had wanted to make one for a long time and I’m not sure why I was hesitant. They went together very…

  • The Importance of “Ten Mindful Minutes” For Our Kids

    I have always loved actress Goldie Hawn but now she’s made my list of women I admire. A book called “Ten Mindful Minutes” caught my eye at our local library one day and was surprised that Goldie was the author. Idecided I better check her book out for two reasons: because she wrote it, and…

  • Bringing the Story of Christ’s Birth to Life

    Many times during the winter months when we have chores to do at the barn for our heifer calves, my mind is full of wonderment about our barn.   It was built by my husband’s great grandfather in 1914 and is three stories tall. I love admiring the markings left from the tools that made…

  • Cowboy and Rancher Christmas Gift Guide Part II

    I have 16 years of experience in agonizing over what to get a cowboy/rancher for Christmas and consider myself a seasoned gift giver to the cowman. More of my gift suggestions continue as follows. A milk replacer kit that includes a sturdy bucket, whisk, funnel, feeding bag and tube, and powdered electrolytes or colostrum packets…

  • Christmas Gift Ideas for Cowboys and Ranchers

    This Christmas season I want to help those in need. Anybody who has a cowboy or rancher on their Christmas list needs some good gift ideas. With my help maybe shoppers won’t resort to buying the cowboy or rancher on their list another western shirt. We’ll start with their hobbies and interests and what comes…

  • Our Would-Be Millennium Baby

    The due date of our second child was January 1, 2000 and by the second trimester I got really tired of hearing “Oh! Maybe you’ll have a millennium baby!” I was supposed to have a “Millennium Baby” but she arrived three weeks early instead.   Naturally, I wanted the same doctor who delivered our first…

  • Accurate Source for Meat Safety Information

    One of the things about the media that bothers me the most is how much inaccurate information is being shared so freely with people—most especially about our livelihood and the industry we work hard for. When I took a journalism class in high school for the high school newspaper, I was taught to report on…

  • Mom, Record This

    My husband looks forward to getting the same thing for Christmas; a new calf record book/calendar. He gets anxious until he’s able to transfer his important information into it before the New Year starts. A number of years ago, I started keeping a pocket calendar to write down ranch information in that I thought might…

  • Give Someone a Cow for Christmas This Year from Heifer International

    Most likely you’ve seen the acronym WWJD? (What Would Jesus Do?). Well, I tweaked that acronym and came up with a better one that’s fitting for the Christmas season: WWJB? which stands for What Would Jesus Buy? Asking this question while pushing a cart up and down store aisles really puts a whole new perspective…