by Ann | Mar 21, 2020 | Family, Feature Family, Feature Real Life, Real Life
Healthcare workers need our prayers. I woke up before my alarm at 5:20 a.m. this morning. Maybe it was a mother’s intuition. Maybe it was an anxious heart. Two states away in Oklahoma, our daughter Meghan should have been waking up in her one-bedroom apartment and...
by Ann | Jul 28, 2019 | Family, Feature Family, Feature Real Life, Real Life
It has been a big week for our family. Our only daughter, Meghan, finished a 14-month accelerated nursing program at The University of Oklahoma and is now a nurse. Meghan earned her bachelor’s degree in Foreign Language and Literature – Spanish at the...
by Ann | May 25, 2019 | Family, Feature Family, Feature Real Life, Real Life
Like many of you, I’m sure, we’ve spent much of this spring celebrating graduations, birthdays, grand openings, engagements, and weddings. Our schedules have been fast paced and we’ve felt so blessed to have so many things to celebrate with friends...
by Ann | Nov 13, 2017 | Family, Feature Family, Real Life
On a cold day in November of 2000, exactly five months to the day after he was diagnosed, my dad, Robert Forrest Shrewsbury, lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 51. While my dad had a fulfilling life, it makes me sad to think that he never got to see or do...
by Ann | Oct 30, 2017 | Family, Feature Family, Pawhuska, The Pioneer Woman, USA, Where we've been
Both my mom and my mother-in-law are big fans of Ree Drummond and The Pioneer Woman cooking show on Food Network. We’d been to Ree’s new Mercantile store and restaurant in Pawhuska twice this year, and when we returned home from our last trip, we could...
by Steve | Jul 25, 2017 | Family, Feature Family, The Midwest, USA
When I decided to leave my full-time job as a middle school principal this spring, one of the things Ann and I wanted to do in this interim stage was spend more time with our families. For years, our jobs have dictated when we could travel and how much time we could...