Our plane carrying us back from the trade show arrived at 12:05 last night and we finally were able to sleep in our own beds, although it had really only been two nights away. My older girls and husband left this morning at 5 am to go to a goat conference two hours away so I really haven’t been about to see any of them yet. The 2yr old woke me up bright and early so I am certainly feeling the burn today.

I had to take care of the lambs and goats this morning and I have to wonder if any of my kids will question why we make our lives so dirty and hard. It has been raining non stop for days and the short cut hill down to the goats/lambs was impassable so I had to go all the way around and back up. Once I got up there I realized that I had used the screw cap calf bottle instead of the lamb bottle. How did I finally figure this out? I lost the entire bottle on the ground when I tried to put it into the feeder and the nipple came off. Lovely, I had to walk back up and get a new bottle. Once I got back up the 2yr old decided she would HAVE to come with me, lovely. So off we go again with now two bottles (I wasn’t doing this again!). Luckily the 2yr old had a wonderful time petting the lambs while they ate and I fed the goats. Unfortunately the goats didn’t have any hay or alfalfa in the barn so I had to go down to the big barn to get it, lovely. It’s raining huge fat cold heavy rain and of course I wore the jacket without a hood, spectacular. I finally get the entire hay wheel barrowed up and everyone fed. I notice that one of the dairy goats looks a little stressed so I decide to lock in my three dairies for good measure because the weather is so nasty and I’ve got three pet, bully, goats and I didn’t want to have to worry about the smaller dairies finding a dry space in the barn. This is great, except that I will now need to go BACK down to the big barn to fill up a 5 gallon bucket of water and haul that back up, lovely. The 2yr old and I finally got everything done and trudged back up home. I took a quick shower (to screams of BATH BATH BATH) and then she took a long bath. After wood was brought in and the fire was stoked and we were settled, I just had to wonder why it is I actually prefer to live this way.

I am going to write about our trade show tomorrow, it was fairly eventful, but just had to write about my wet rainy cold experience from this morning.