S1E2 Country Girls: Ma is Good. Ma is Kind. Ma is Important.

Ma is good. She works hard. She cooks. She sews. She also has gorgeous teeth and is great at running her egg business. | NBC

Mary and Laura start school in Walnut Grove where they meet their arch-nemesis Nellie Oleson. Ma has a run in with Harriet Oleson, and she and Laura must strive to rise above. Laura struggles to write an essay for Visitors' Day that encompasses everything on her heart with words that only end in "at", and she ends up bringing the (one room school) house down with a performance that will tug at your heart strings. Will Marissa finally cry? Why do Mary and Laura wear weird hats when they sleep? Will we find out what causes some eggs to be double-yolked? Will Ed Sheeran make a controversial cameo? Find out all of this and more in these week's episode.

Want some Lemon Verbena?

If you are like us, you have a hankerin' to get your hands on some lemon verbena now. Here are some awesome links to buy/make some of your own lemon verbena fragrance so you can smell like a school mistress and have little freckled girls gaze at you in wonderment.

• Make it
• Buy it
• Wash your dishes with it

Waste Time with These Links:

• History of the blackboard (by Slate - how apt!)
• All about double-yolked eggs
• You can buy your very own McGuffey's Primer​ so you can learn your "at" words!
• Autobiography by Charlotte Stewart AKA "Miss Beadle"
• Children's Books written in 1850-1900
• Black licorice can be dangerous
• ​Listen to these very energetic people sing "Uncle John is Sick Abed"

Some Long-Legged Snipes

Left: a snipe; Right: Wesley Snipes, actor

Need more Harriet Oleson in Your Life?