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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.