For ages 3-9... Children begin dreaming about what they want to be before they even start school. Firemen, doctors, nurses, farmers, football players and ballerinas would be plentiful if children always became what they dreamed about when they were very young. In these pages, little Emily doesn't know what she wants to be when she grows up. There are so many choices She and her mother talk about all kinds of career options...such as becoming a great cook, a judge, a seamstress, doctor and lots more. But what would be the BEST thing for her to do when she grows up? Only her mother knows

Farm families everywhere have a different lifestyle than many today. Yet we choose it knowing that tomorrow's livelihood is never guaranteed, and that God is only as far away as the fields and the livestock barns-and all that happens there. These pages are filled with stories of an Iowa farm family, but it's a book for all people. The Dirt is a book about life. It's a farm wife and mother's perspective on the things that made us laugh, cry, think, and even grow up in every possible way on the farm. A farm is a great teacher of life and joy and loss, and the lessons learned there cannot be...