Saturday, August 2, 2008
So patience is a virtue...right?
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Well, yes, I know it is... sometimes we have to be patient even when we don't want to be, usually we do. I have felt for two wks now that it would just be any day and that cow would just give us a calf already. The calf is not here yet, but the reason Im up at 4:45 am is because I got up for the 3:30 check of the cow and I just know its going to be soon.. She's definitely in labor and showing all the signs. Just waiting for it to be "calf time" I really hope she has the calf before my kids wake up so they can all go out and see the new little thing in the back pasture. They will all be so excited! If its a heifer calf, her name will be Summer Blessing (mom Spring, older heifer born in October ...Autumn) if its a bull calf his name will be Ribeye and he will have an unfortunate run in with a banding contraption very soon.  I've done a horrible job of keeping this blog updated... but I'll try to catch ya'll up on things here real quick like. Hubby was gone for 18 days on a business trip. Not something he normally does and it was incredibly hard to deal with.... well, we had no major problems, we just missed him a lot while he was gone. I didnt post about it on here much because I wanted to be safe. No reason to advertise that you're home alone with 8 kids for 18 days. My mom did come and stay for a while and that was fun, as it always is... Even if we dont do much at all, its just fun having her around. Its so nice to have a 'normal' mom. I hear friends talk about the strange things their moms do as they get older and then there are those obnoxious and pushy type moms. My mom just hangs out with us and does what we're doing and enjoys the grandkids. Its so relaxing. I do wish there was a way to convince them to move to Kansas with us, but I know its not likely to happen. Anyway, we were a little busy while the hubs was gone since we had all the yard and animal stuff to do. Then when he got home, our older 5 kids went to horse camp for a week. That was hard too! WOW, you just don't realize how much they do around here. Nobody to do the dishes, help with laundry ( I got it all washed and dried but nothing got folded all week) and then of course there were animal chores for the goats, pigs, cows, chickens, rabbits and dogs. The younger three can help a lot with rabbits and chickens, but they dont know the routine with the cows, pigs or goats, so that was my job. Everyone is home now and its so nice! I ordered the last of the things I needed for school last week and most of it is here already. We're not planning to start until the 26th. Hubs is on vacation the weekend right before that, including Monday, so we'll start on Tuesday. We're using Teaching Textbooks, Drive thru history, apologia science, horizons math, sequential spelling, Rod and Staff english and Explode the code. I'll have one 8/9th grader, three 7th graders, two 2nd graders, one in Kindergarten and one who will do preschool stuff along with us because he's big (or thinks he is) TOO. My goal is to get the house under control between now and then so that we can operate more efficiently. Its going to be a tall order to get it all done this year and requires more of my time than last year when the older four all did SOS on the computers, but I do think we'll all enjoy learning together more. Im going out now to check on the cow again. Its been an hour and a half so maybe she's doing something exciting now? Im trying so hard to be patient but Im going to be exhausted tomorrow....er... uh.. I mean later today! |
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