like so many people across the nation , the recession hit me hard , " gilbert said in a statement to the detroit news . "
gilbert , along with husband and fellow actor timothy busfield and two younger boys , are moving into a log house in an unspecified part of livingston county , or as she wrote in a tweet last week " our own little house in the big woods . "
 
it 's a product of what happened with the economy .
melissa gilbert signed her new cookbook , " my prairie cookbook " at barnes & noble in brighton , michigan on december 3 , 2014 .
the internal revenue service recently accused her of failing to pay more than $ 360,000 in federal income taxes , a debt that is emerging one week after gilbert announced she and her family are moving out of their rented home near downtown howell .
( photo : detroit news file ) howell — actress melissa gilbert , the " little house on the prairie " star whose move to howell two years ago brought a dash of hollywood glamour to livingston county , is more than a half pint short on her federal taxes .
 
gilbert and east lansing native busfield — known for television roles in " thirtysomething " and " west wing " and in the films " revenge of the nerds " and " field of dreams " — moved to michigan .