Ranch Wife's Slant

Cowboys, kids, and ranch life

Tag: Family

  • Going Out To Pasture

    Moving cows to summer range is my favorite day of the year. It’s better than Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day. I don’t go to bed regretting eating too much like I do with the other holidays and moving cows onto Forest Service takes place in the summer not in the middle of winter….

  • Cheat Nights

    At our house, when the cook that’d be me gets a night off, we call it cheat night. I’m not entirely sure how the nickname stuck but I think it had something to do with me commenting once that I was going to cheat on cooking supper and everyone was going to have a bowl…

  • Raising Country Kids

    Kids raised in the city get street smart. Kids raised in the country get to work. One of the first things my husband and I did to raise our kids in the country was train them for the outside world. Potty training for the outdoors was necessary since a lot of our kids’ time would…

  • Weekend Cereal

    Like most households, my family looks forward to weekends. It means they get to have weekend cereal! I dubbed sugar-coated cereals weekend cereals a long time ago when I made it a rule one summer that my kids couldn’t eat sugar cereal for breakfast every day. I’ve always felt like the first meal of the…

  • BEEF Magazine’s May 2011 Issue Features Value Cuts of Beef

    I was overly excited when I received the May 2011 issue of BEEF Magazine in our mailbox last week and saw the cover. The magazine’s featured topic focused on value cut meats. The front cover pictured a scrumptious skillet dish of pan-fried steak, onions, jalapeños, and colored bell peppers called Samba steak stir fry using…

  • Roast Beef: The Ultimate in Lazy Cooking

    Roast beef is one of my favorite cuts of beef because it’s the easiest meat to cook and make meals out of. I usually have our meat processor make 4-5 pound roasts out of our butcher critter for us. I like that I can squeeze three meals out of one roast without much fuss to…

  • Everyday is Take-Your-Kids-to-Work Day for Ranch Kids

    (Technically this should be posted on Thursday, since April 28th is “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day,” but since Tuesday is the day I post about all things family, I decided to stick with my schedule.) One of the things that my husband and I love about our two kids is their help….

  • The Best Cookies Ever

      The best cookies I have ever eaten have always been the uncooked ones. Usually when I bake cookies it isn’t because I feel like baking or want to have a gooey warm cookie from the oven with a glass of ice cold milk. It’s because I’m having an intense craving for cookie dough that…

  • Disadvantaged Ranch Family

    Life can be tough out on a ranch. Some think we’re disadvantaged because we miss out on so much due to our lifestyle. Some people act apologetic when I tell them how far I am from the conveniences of the nearest town (Custer Pringle’s conveniences are few) or city (Rapid City). Living so far away…

  • Journaling Part II

    As a result of all the technology available to us, handwritten documentation is becoming endangered. Communication through pen and paper is getting replaced with social networking and emails that are typed. The words are personal but the signature handwriting of that person is replaced with type fonts. I feel very strongly that people’s handwriting needs…