Little House Nerd

I have two sisters. One is older, one is younger. One is married to a man named Brad. I am married to a man named Christian. Both Brad and Christian like to tell our sisterly trio that we grew up as pioneers just because we didn't have cable and we didn't play video games. I often contest this label, but in reality, we did spend most of our childhood pretending we were pioneers. We read all the Little House on the Prairie books as a family, we watched the television show on a regular basis, and all three of us owned at least one pioneer bonnet. Considering all that, imagine my excitement when I heard that Little House on the Prairie THE MUSICAL featuring Melissa Gilbert (those of you who watched regular cartoons as a child may not know that Melissa Gilbert played Laura Ingalls for over ten years on TV and is like a really big deal in the pioneering world) was in Sacramento the same week my little sister was coming to town. We bought tickets, we went, and we loved every minute of it, and I even cried at the end. That guess that makes me a pretty big nerd.

There she is! The Melissa Gilbert! We ran into a little cult following after the show and found out that the boy who played Willy Olsen is her son.