Frontier Follies: Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle of Nowhere
New York Times bestseller

A down-to-earth, hilarious collection of stories and musings on marriage, motherhood, and country life from the #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of the Food Network show The Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond.

Once upon a time, I lost my marbles and married a sexy, Wrangler-wearing cowboy named Ladd. That single decision would wind up setting the stage for years of rural adventures (and misadventures), and while I can't imagine my life being any different, raising a family in the “idyllic” countryside has not been without a few bumps in the road. (Or were those cow patties? It's hard to tell the difference sometimes.)

I'm excited to share this crazy collection of true stories from my full-of-energy, hard-to-tame, wonderfully wild (and very weird) frontier family. From the unique challenges of being married to a rancher to the blood, sweat, mud, and tears of raising country kids, I'll pull back the curtain and let you in on some of the sh*t and shenanigans that have really gone on here on Drummond Ranch over the past two-plus decades.

You'll learn about marital spats, run-ins with wildlife, ER visits, my parenting neuroses, triumphs, tribulations, love, loss . . . and how manure has somehow managed to weave its way through all of it. To keep things up to the minute, you'll also hear about more recent family developments that have tested my sanity and pushed me to the brink. (And pleasantly surprised me, too.)

This book is both a love letter and a laugh letter, and I hope you get a big kick out of it all: the good, the bad, and the dirty. Mostly, I hope it demonstrates how much I adore this family of mine . . . even if I sometimes have to use rubber snakes to show it.

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Frontier Follies: Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle of Nowhere
New York Times bestseller

A down-to-earth, hilarious collection of stories and musings on marriage, motherhood, and country life from the #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of the Food Network show The Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond.

Once upon a time, I lost my marbles and married a sexy, Wrangler-wearing cowboy named Ladd. That single decision would wind up setting the stage for years of rural adventures (and misadventures), and while I can't imagine my life being any different, raising a family in the “idyllic” countryside has not been without a few bumps in the road. (Or were those cow patties? It's hard to tell the difference sometimes.)

I'm excited to share this crazy collection of true stories from my full-of-energy, hard-to-tame, wonderfully wild (and very weird) frontier family. From the unique challenges of being married to a rancher to the blood, sweat, mud, and tears of raising country kids, I'll pull back the curtain and let you in on some of the sh*t and shenanigans that have really gone on here on Drummond Ranch over the past two-plus decades.

You'll learn about marital spats, run-ins with wildlife, ER visits, my parenting neuroses, triumphs, tribulations, love, loss . . . and how manure has somehow managed to weave its way through all of it. To keep things up to the minute, you'll also hear about more recent family developments that have tested my sanity and pushed me to the brink. (And pleasantly surprised me, too.)

This book is both a love letter and a laugh letter, and I hope you get a big kick out of it all: the good, the bad, and the dirty. Mostly, I hope it demonstrates how much I adore this family of mine . . . even if I sometimes have to use rubber snakes to show it.

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Frontier Follies: Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle of Nowhere

Frontier Follies: Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle of Nowhere

by Ree Drummond
Frontier Follies: Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle of Nowhere

Frontier Follies: Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle of Nowhere

by Ree Drummond

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New York Times bestseller

A down-to-earth, hilarious collection of stories and musings on marriage, motherhood, and country life from the #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of the Food Network show The Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond.

Once upon a time, I lost my marbles and married a sexy, Wrangler-wearing cowboy named Ladd. That single decision would wind up setting the stage for years of rural adventures (and misadventures), and while I can't imagine my life being any different, raising a family in the “idyllic” countryside has not been without a few bumps in the road. (Or were those cow patties? It's hard to tell the difference sometimes.)

I'm excited to share this crazy collection of true stories from my full-of-energy, hard-to-tame, wonderfully wild (and very weird) frontier family. From the unique challenges of being married to a rancher to the blood, sweat, mud, and tears of raising country kids, I'll pull back the curtain and let you in on some of the sh*t and shenanigans that have really gone on here on Drummond Ranch over the past two-plus decades.

You'll learn about marital spats, run-ins with wildlife, ER visits, my parenting neuroses, triumphs, tribulations, love, loss . . . and how manure has somehow managed to weave its way through all of it. To keep things up to the minute, you'll also hear about more recent family developments that have tested my sanity and pushed me to the brink. (And pleasantly surprised me, too.)

This book is both a love letter and a laugh letter, and I hope you get a big kick out of it all: the good, the bad, and the dirty. Mostly, I hope it demonstrates how much I adore this family of mine . . . even if I sometimes have to use rubber snakes to show it.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062962812
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 04/05/2022
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 345,080
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Ree Drummond is the author of eight New York Times bestselling cookbooks in the Pioneer Woman Cooks series, the New York Times bestsellers Frontier Follies and The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels, and many bestselling children’s books. Her award-winning website, The Pioneer Woman, was founded in 2006, and her top-rated cooking show, The Pioneer Woman, premiered on Food Network in 2011. In the years that followed, Ree launched The Pioneer Woman Magazine, a well-loved line of kitchen and home products at Walmart, and a restaurant, bakery, store, and other businesses in her hometown of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. She lives on a working ranch with her husband, Ladd, and has five adult kids who come home for family meals whenever they can!

Hometown:

Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Date of Birth:

January 6, 1969

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Manage

Our Worst First Year 7

Love in the Time of Rubber Snakes 12

Places to Hide Rubber Snakes (for Your Favorite Sweetheart to Find) 18

I Do Dishes When We Argue 19

All I Wanted Was a Doughnut 24

My Top Five Favorite … 32

Ladd and the Gala 33

Cheatin' Movies 41

The Love Robot 48

Love Robot Chili and Cornbread Muffins 56

Devil Woman 59

What Do You Do with Girls? 66

Twenty Interesting Things About Ladd 74

Motherhood

Pride, Prejudice, and Epidurals 79

Ten More Interesting Things About Redheads 87

Placenta Fail 88

Sword! 95

"Funny" Family Injuries on Drummond Ranch 102

Our Great Homeschooling Experiment 103

Adventures in Children's Time 113

Scaring (and Scarring) the Kids 122

Wrong Mother 129

Mom Report Card 137

Misophonia 138

Wannabe Town Kids 146

Special Deliveries 154

Viral Parenting 160

The Absolute Best Sandwich I Made During Quarantine 168

The Whole Fam Damily

Sugar Lips 173

Drummond Family Nicknames 180

Life on the Farm 182

Did She Just Say "Dick"?!? 190

Hop Aboard the Chuck Wagon 196

A Tale of Two Families 204

A Rich Inner Life 206

Country Life

Anything for a Date 217

I Really Hate Summer 224

Gardening Heartbreak 231

Horses on Drummond Ranch 239

Shopping in Bulk 240

Stockin' Up 246

Bull, Interrupted 250

The Lodge Tourists 255

Dogs, Dogs, Dogs 262

Dogs and Cats on Drummond Ranch 269

Cowboys Are Real 270

Cowboy Colloquialisms 275

New Territory

Pawhuska vs. the Hamptons 279

Behind-the-Scenes Trivia from My Cooking Show 286

Left in a Man Cave 289

Stayin' Humble 296

Say Hi to Garth! 301

Bonus Kid 304

Herman 313

A Funny Thing Happened at My Cookbook Signing 319

A Drummond Family Quiz 324

My Idea of a Good Time 327

Acknowledgments 339

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