Ree Drummond has a very full plate. In addition to her popular Food Network show The Pioneer Woman, which is in its seventh year, the Pawhuska, Oklahoma–based star, 48, maintains a vast culinary empire (a namesake magazine, retail collections, cookbooks and a general store, plus a boarding house on the horizon) and, as she puts it, “keeps the home fires burning” for her family of six: husband Ladd, 48, and kids Alex, 20, Paige, 17, Bryce, 15, and Todd, 13. “Never a dull moment,” she jokes. “In fact, I aspire to dull moments.” The lifestyle guru brings Us into the fold.
How do you balance everything you have going on?
RD For me to answer that would imply I have balance. It’s hard for us girls; we take on the…