These Happy Golden Years
Rules of Engagement
I love Laura Ingalls’ engagement story, in part because I don’t have one of my own. Fans share their engagement stories here.
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The Long Winter, Chapter 11: Pa Goes to Volga
Pa rolls the old chariot along, and Mr. Edwards slips Mary a cool twenty.
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A Quilt With No Name
Summer has faded and the cool breezes are here. It’s the time of year when the drone of the air conditioner is replaced with the hum of the heater and I pull our heavy quilts out of their storage crates. One of my favorite quilts from my childhood, so thin with years of use, now
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Laura the Teacher (on TV)
I like to leave my DVR set to record episodes of Little House on the Prairie — five at a time — and from time to time I check to see which ones it’s got loaded. Today I’m glad I did. The DVR contains what is probably my favorite Little House episode ever: Sweet Sixteen.
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Happy Anniversary!
Today we celebrate the 124th wedding anniversary of Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
In honor of the day, let’s share what we love best about the romance or relationship between the two (this can be either during their courtship or during the marriage)!
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"You Better Just Manage."
Rebecca’s post on discipline struck a nerve with me–in a good way. Many’s the time I’ve mentioned my kids here. I’ve got two: an almost seven-year-old daughter and a four-and-a-half-year-old son.
My daughter, I say lovingly, is a “challenge.” I’m aware that discipline is another word for teach and I try to do the best job
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The Michigan Connection…
My husband and I recently visited the Detroit Public Library in Detroit, Michigan, where the original manuscripts of The Long Winter and These Happy Golden Years are housed. It is a trip that I have been wanting to take for a good many years, and I was very excited when I found out that we
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Lazy? Lousy? Really?
Something that has always bothered me in the Little House books is the whole Eliza Jane debacle. I couldn’t figure out why Laura presented such a bleak picture of her sister-in-law.
Part of the reason for that is the timeline.
Let me back up. Through the eyes that Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author, allowed for us as
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