I have read the first two chapters in The Little House in the Big Woods. The characters in the story are Laura, her baby sister named Carrie, and  her older sister  named Mary. Their  parent's names were Pa and Ma. They lived in a cabin in the woods in Wisconsin state. This was a long time ago. It was  over 60 yrs ago.  It was in the late 1800's that they lived in the woods.

The things that Laura's mother did with her children show that she loved  them. She would bake with them. She made them paper dolls because she wanted to have fun.  She taught  them how to cook, sew, make butter, clean, iron and wash clothes.

Pa was a fun parent just like the mother. He would always play with them after he came home from work. He told them stories about his father and the panther, and he told them jokes. What Laura liked best was when he played his fiddle. If I was Laura, I would want to learn how to play the fiddle.  I'd want to sing Yankee Doodle with my dad too.

Catching your food and surviving in the wild was hard back then. You had to catch your own food in the wild. They caught bears, pigs, and deer for food. That was the easy part. The hard part was they had to drain the blood and then skin it. It makes me feel GROSS really. Then they had to cut it up and put salt on it and then pack it. They salted  it  so then it wouldn't get rotted. They packed it away for the winter because the winter coming. That meant you couldn't get that much food in the winter. That's why they packed it so they could have it whenever wanted it during the winter, instead of just keep going out and getting it in the wild.

Mary had a rag and Laura had a corn on a cob doll. They played inside upstairs in the attic. They liked their attic. Their family life was nice and the girls felt loved.