My daughter has recently become a foster mom and has begun the journey to one day adopt a child. Her first experience was temporarily fostering a thirteen month old baby girl. She had her for only eleven days, but Baby…
Month: July 2013
LIWLRA News
Attention Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy & Research Association members! The latest edition of our member’s only newsletter is headed to an inbox near you. This issue contains important updates on creating bylaws for the organization, the membership renewal process and…
The First Four Years; Chapter 3: Section 9
When I decided to take on this chapter and re-read the section, I chose to look at it as I had the very first time I read it back some 40-ish years ago. I initially read the books in 1971…
Happy Trails to Conference 2012
I hope that you’ve all enjoyed our look back on the national Laura Ingalls Wilder conference 2012. The entire Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association Board is very proud that we’ve been able to put on two consecutive national…
Days 5 and 6 LauraPalooza July 15-16 2012
Welcome to Days 5 and 6 of my LauraPalooza Trip, Sunday, July 15, and Monday, July 16 2012. Official LauraPalooza ended on Saturday, but my trip continued until Monday. Many Laura fans add an additional Laura site or two to…
Day 4 LauraPalooza July 14 2012
Welcome to Day 4 of LauraPalooza, Saturday, July 13, 2012. We finish up the last day in Mankato, Minnesota and then head out to Walnut Grove where we visit the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum and Fragments of a Dream, the…
Day 3 LauraPalooza July 13 2012
Welcome to Day 3 of LauraPalooza, Friday, July 13, 2012. We have three videos for today. The middle one has a long bit of Barbara Walker’s speech, I hope you enjoy it. Note that YouTube has started a stabilization feature.…
Day 2 LauraPalooza July 12 2012 | Beyond Little House
Day 2 of the LauraPalooza conference was July 12, 2012. There are two videos for the general events of the day. I finally did get around to finishing the videos for the Legacy Luncheon, but my uploading program didn’t like…
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Day 1 LauraPalooza July 11 2012 | Beyond Little House
Due to extending registration and a delay from the college print shop on the customized maps they offered us, registration information packets were delayed. We didn’t quite realize how long before the conference some people indicated they were going to…
No LauraPalooza 2013 | Beyond Little House
We’ve gotten some questions lately about LauraPalooza aka the National Conference of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association and I wanted to clarify. So far we’ve held the conference twice, once in 2010 and once in 2012. Our…