I was the last person that any of my friends would have pictured moving to the boonies.
Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.
As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.
I want people to see how hard my husband and kids work on the ranch.
I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.
I attended college in Los Angeles and wore black pumps to work every day.
My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.
I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.
I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.
It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.
I'm wondering if I made the right decision about hair and makeup.
Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.
If I were a single person living in a city, I could support myself, but I probably wouldn't have a blog, because I would have nothing to blog about.
I'm so boring. My idea of a great day is just to be home with absolutely nothing to do.
For a while, I Photoshopped too much. When you first learn what you can do, you really go overboard sometimes.
When I was young, I wanted to be an actress. I had no idea what that meant, but I just thought it sounded fun.
Oats are great - you can make meatloaf and use oats instead of bread as the binder, or you can make oatmeal cookies, my husband's favorite.
In many ways, our marriage is anything but traditional. When I started my blog in 2006, Ladd was the only one that really understood what I was doing, probably before I even understood what I was doing. He wasn't tech-savvy, but he just got it and was totally on board with it.
I prefer cooking to baking. Baking, to me, is very precise, and it's about perfection.
I don't like bananas. I like to drive that point home.
