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 thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.

The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not going to change.

As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

I love black leggings with cowboy (I mean cowgirl!) boots, and other-slightly less trendy-things like my boys' Wrangler jeans and my husband's worn deerskin work gloves. I love most things country, because country, to me, is home.