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

I want people to see how hard my husband and kids work on the ranch.

I've set aside a nice chunk of my advertising revenue each month for giveaways, like a KitchenAid mixer. I like buying them for the audience, because without the audience I wouldn't have the blog or the revenue in the first place.

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

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.

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 working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.