Ree Drummond Reveals Paige Isn’t Residing at Dwelling as She Works on the Ranch (Unique)

Simply earlier than Ree Drummond bought on Zoom to talk with PEOPLE, her daughter Paige had simply walked out the door of their household’s ranch to get a tractor tire modified.

The Pioneer Lady star’s youngest daughter just lately moved again to Pawhuska, Okla., to work along with her dad Ladd as a cattle rancher.

“It’s actually nice to have her dwelling,” says the cookbook writer, who launched a brand new Walmart line of small home equipment.

However regardless of shifting again to work, Paige, 24, a College of Arkansas alumna, isn’t staying at Ree’s newly-built dwelling. 

“She is definitely dwelling on the town, in the home that was my in-laws’ home,” Ree tells PEOPLE. “So it is form of good that we nonetheless have that home, hadn’t bought it and so she’s moved in and made it her personal.” Ladd’s father Chuck, often known as Pa-Pa, died in 2022, whereas his mom Nan died in 2018.

Ree beforehand revealed that Paige got here again to work on the ranch full-time in January. Since then, she’s taking the job daily. 

“By way of how lengthy she’ll keep or whether or not it will be a interval of her life or eternally, we’re probably not attempting to foretell or give it some thought too far upfront,” says Ree. “I like that she’s right here. She’s the primary of our children to essentially come again and work on the ranch full time.” 

Ree and Ladd are additionally dad and mom to Alex, 27, Bryce, 21, Jamar, 21 and Todd, 20. 

In a Could Pioneer Lady weblog publish, Ree wrote that Paige is “getting banged up, scratched, bruised, and clobbered,” on the job. Regardless of the taxing work ranching calls for, Paige is ready to maintain her personal, Ree tells PEOPLE.

“She’s very robust, not simply bodily, however she’s bought a reasonably robust coronary heart and character, so it is enjoyable to look at her form of bounce in and study the ropes — not as Ladd’s child, however as one of many cowboys mainly. Cowgirls, I ought to say,” she laughs.

In April, Ree gave her followers a glimpse of Paige’s ranch duties in a clip from Ree’s Meals Community present, The Pioneer Lady.

“Paige begins fairly early round daylight,” Ree defined within the clip. “She arrives on the ranch from city, fills up her feeder, after which heads out into the pasture to feed the cattle.”

Paige identified that her life could be very completely different in comparison with when she was working in an workplace. “I’m out right here with all of the cows. So, it’s positively actually completely different, however I personally adore it,” Paige added.

Ree’s different daughter Alex additionally has loads of thrilling life adjustments to have fun. Ree introduced that the 27-year-old and her husband Mauricio Scott expect their first little one — Ree’s first grandchild. 

Ree recalled her uncooked response of the massive divulge to PEOPLE. 

“Gosh, it feels completely completely different than I believed it could really feel,” she admits. “Since we simply form of turned empty-nesters, Ladd and I really feel like we simply completed elevating our children — not even completed! A few them are in faculty, so we’re nonetheless elevating our children.”