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Have you ever had one of those days where the sun is shining, there’s nothing pressing on your schedule, your family is safe and home and together and the possibilities on how to spend  your w...

https://veederranch.com/2024/04/22/one-of-those-days/

Listen. There is not an athletically gifted bone in my body. My entire childhood, my cousins called me “Tuck and Roll,” because I spent plenty of time falling off horses and breaking bones. I...

https://veederranch.com/2024/04/16/dont-duck-and-other-rules-for-sports/

Ok, here’s a legitimate parenting question. When your kid finds a tiny box full of her baby teeth because you sent her upstairs to your jewelry box to look for a pearl earrings for her granny c...

https://veederranch.com/2024/02/05/tooth-troubles/

I’m not positive, but judging from the evidence, my husband’s New Year’s resolution is to get his entire 2024 to-do list done by then end of the month. By the time you’re reading this he ...

https://veederranch.com/2024/01/30/one-nail-at-a-time/

Happy New Year! It’s the kids’ first day back at school after Christmas break and I’m already behind and this is why… Two days after Christmas We’re two days after Christmas and all thr...

https://veederranch.com/2024/01/03/after-christmas-poem/

It probably won’t come as a surprise to you considering you’ve heard about my mother, the lady who owns a clothing store in my hometown, that in my life I have always been very aware of “th...

https://veederranch.com/2023/11/22/the-outfit/

Well, winter arrived here in full force, and I got to be one of the first to welcome it as I packed the kids into the SUV to drive 40 mph for 30 miles through sideways-falling snowflakes and atop...

https://veederranch.com/2023/11/07/why-do-we-live-here/

I could give you one hundred reasons that we will never be invited to lounge with rich people on a yacht, but probably the main one is that we are the kind of people who put up a hand-me-down, ab...

https://veederranch.com/2023/08/04/why-well-never-own-a-yacht/

Do you know what it takes to get out of the great white north in March? Ask anyone who tried it the past couple weeks of spring break and they will tell you it was an act of God. Some … Continu...

https://veederranch.com/2023/03/28/prairie-people-hit-the-beach/

It’s a snow day at the ranch and all the roads in ND are closed. So while all the kids were in the house, I sat down to chat with my little sister, Alex, about parenting five year olds and … ...

https://veederranch.com/2022/12/14/this-is-five/