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A quick Christmas recap (with some humiliation splashed in)
Outside the Christmas window And now, a quick recap of a Very Veeder Christmas so you can all move on with your lives and wait, with bated breath, for the next dramatic adventure of the ranch pug in...
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The Christmas Card Crisis…
Hello, hello…happy Sunday everyone. I come to you from under my favorite blanket on my favorite recliner in my favorite sweatpants and fleece shirt while the snow blows and drifts outside the windows...
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The list
Christmas is right around the corner. Like, right there. I can see its sparkly ribbons and the ball on its Santa hat from here and I am finding myself a little anxious about the whole thing. I’m...
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A Cowboy Christmas reminder…
Well, it looks a little like a Charlie Brown Christmas around here, but husband and I did it. We got a tree…or something that looks like it might have come off of a tree somewhere. Not the Rockefeller...
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Momma’s Mouth Watering Fudge-A Christmas Gift
The Merriest Christmas to all of you. I hope you’re reading this and looking forward to a weekend filled with friends and family and laughter and delicious food. To honor your friendship and support I...
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A Very Veeder Christmas
A very merry first day back to work after Christmas to you all. I hope you all had a lovely time working on polishing off those sugar cookies and have packed a turkey sandwich, a leftover noodle...
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An inflatable Christmas miracle.
Well folks, the countdown to Christmas is on and I have to say my Christmas spirit has been looking a little less like Santas and snowflakes and snowmen and a little more like procrastination. I have...
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So many gifts.
Last Christmas Husband and I were planning the arrival of our new home. Husband worked during the coldest weeks of the year alongside his dad, Pops and our neighbor hammering nails with gloved hands,...
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A Christmas Eve Eve Winner and your beautiful, winter photos!
Merry Christmas Eve Eve! It is snowing here at the ranch and we’re hunkered down, working on checking off the construction and pie making projects on our list. Between the hammering and measuring and...
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A quick Christmas Recap…
Christmas finally arrived at the Veeder Ranch, leaving behind a wake of wrapping, boxes, bows, leftovers, a pretty severe sugar crash and one particularly annoyed pug. It was our first Christmas in the...
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Smile, it’s Christmas.
‘Tis the season. The season to deck the halls. To troll the ancient Yule tide carol. To don we now our gay apparel. The season to be jolly. And ’tis the season to stand in front of the Christmas tree...
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The Pug: A Christmas Montage
Well, it’s official. Chug the Pug has outgrown his Santa Suit. He’s full grown now after all. An old man. Five years old. As you can see it hasn’t stopped me from forcing him to wear it. No. For all...
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Sunday Column: Oh Christmas Tree, spindly Christmas Tree
Husband and I don’t have many traditions. Unless you count paddlefishing in May, sending him off to pheasant hunt in October and sometimes remembering our own anniversary enough in advance to buy a...
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Sunday Column and a Holiday Re-Cap
I just had a sugar cookie for breakfast. Ok. Two sugar cookies. And I’m contemplating a third. But they were relatively small–little green and red churches–so like two equals one. Anyway, don’t judge...
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Holidays: How they hold us and haunt us
Last weekend marked the end of deer rifle season here in North Dakota. My uncle from Texas arrived in the middle of the week with his son-in-law and nephew, Pops took some time off, Husband willed...
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The Christmas Tree Plan
This is what -2 with a -100 wind chill looks like. Don’t let the sunshine fool you. And so the scene is set… Ahem… ‘Twas the Sunday after Thanksgiving, and one of the last free weekends Husband and I...
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Christmas Card Rejects.
It’s that time of year again. Time to roll out the holly, fill your cup up with egg nog, bake something and send out the Christmas Cards! Now, we’ve talked about our card already here, about how,...
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Sunday Column: A Baby Jesus #4
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas weekend. We have one more holiday visit to make to wrap up Edie’s first Christmas. We’ll hit the road tomorrow for eastern North Dakota to introduce her to my...
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A Letter to the Real Santa
I’m working on my book today. The baby’s in daycare and the air outside is so cold that it burns my skin the minute I step out in it. It’s a perfect day to sit behind this computer to work to gather up...
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A little Christmas reality
I’ve been a mom now for over a year, so needless to say, I’ve learned plenty of lessons. Like, every day is a lesson on how much sleep you actually need to live. I’m still alive (I think) so apparently...
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