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Two New Kids
Two years ago I looked for a home for the overflow of chickens that we had from the I wasnt really paying attention and havent had time to read very much of the goat book that they loaned to us. But when I realized that Cherry was probably due any time, my internal mommy alarm went off, and I started to panic. Robert called the Beattys and found out that Cherry was due on St. Patricks Day. We had one week to try and find out what having goat babies is all about. Being a firm believer in letting nature taking its course, I hoped that having baby goats wouldnt be much different from having baby chicks. They peck though their shells and are eating and drinking in no time at all. But as I read the goat book it appeared that having baby goats was going to be a lot more complicated. In fact, the people who wrote the book didnt let their babies nurse because of a disease that causes goat arthritis. They even went so far as to feed their babies pasteurized milk. I was not happy thinking about the inconvenience that baby goats might cause. Robert called the Beattys and said, Lordy, lordy Miss Scarlet, I dont know nothing about birthin no goat babies. He talked to Mrs. Beatty for a few minutes and then our phone battery died from lack of charging. It was a few more days before we were able to talk to Beth (the Beatty's daughter and the girl who is in charge of all the goats on their farm). She assured me that their goats were disease free and that we could let the kids nurse naturally. Last Thursday was snowy and cold, about 30 degrees. I checked Cherry several times for signs of contractions. I thought I saw her have one, but after talking with Beth I decided that I mistakenly attributed human contractions with Cherrys sides heaving in and out. Goats supposedly scrunch up their backs when they are having contractions. I was in my bedroom working on The Gift of Family Writing and I kept thinking, Ill go and check Cherry as soon as Im done. Just as I finished up Robert came running in the house yelling, Its twins, its twins. Cherry had her babies! She decided to have her babies a day early after all. We all rushed out to the barn and there in the hay lay the cutest little brown babies with waggly tails that you ever saw. We rubbed them down with towels and just as we got them nice and dry, Cherry would lick them again. We all took turns helping one of the babies nurse for the first four days. He is a little smaller than his brother, but he is doing fine now. Today the girls let them outside into the poultry/goat pen for the first time. Out into the wide, wide world, as Anna put it. Robert said today, What good are male goats anyway? Entertainment, I said. The little girls played half the day with their new babies and Ill be expecting some journal entries real soon about the latest additions to our Pebbly Brook menagerie.
6:04 PM - Mar. 22, 2006 - post comment
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 Jill Novak shares from her heart and the pages of her journal about God's faithfulness through life's everyday teachable moments.Jill encourages families to write and draw from life. She and her husband Robert have been married 28 years and are the parents of five children. Together her family has founded Remembrance Press, publishers of The Pebbly Brook Farm Series: Character Building Stories for Boys and Girls, Becoming Gods Naturalist, The Gift of Family Writing, and The Girlhood Home Companion. Home View my profile Archives Email Me   Categories Nature Journal Making Snowflakes On Gossamer Thread Drawing Hollyhocks Basic Supply List for Nature Journaling My Nature Journal - Swamp Milk Weed Becoming God's Naturalist - Make a Nature Specimen Library SketchBook Summer School - Write and Draw from life! Basic Supply list for nature journaling From My Nature Journal Blogging Dueling Bloggers Are you a words of Encouragement blogger? are you a physical touch blogger? Are you a Quality time blogger? Are you a gift giving blogger? Uninspired Know you audience Spiritual diary He Touched me! Art Road trip to Tasha's - part Three Road trip to Tasha's - part two Road trip to Tasha's - part one Drawing From life - Figure Drawing and the Homeschooler What if we threw away those coloring books? Growing Future Authors and Illustrators Growing Authors and Illustrators - Part 1 Journaling With childeren Writng with little childeren - shared journal entries, shared fun! Help childeren of all ages journal there life stories Family Two Letters The Gift of Words Putting your pen to paper Homeschooling Mommy take good care of your self, you belong to me significance Journaling For such a time as this Upon the white log-in with the lord Truth is Stranger then fiction Links The Gift of Family Writing The Girlhood Home Companion  The Pebbly Brook Farm Journal  Recent Entries - Check Out The Hopeful Farm Benefit - A Delightful and Profitable Way to Pass a Dreary Winters Day - A New Tradition - Over the River and Through the Wood to Sarah's - The Challenges and Disadvantages of Homeschooling - Gods Creation and The Tools of the Trade - Milkweed Monday - Drawing Hollyhocks - This Pile of Stuff on the Floor - Annas Amazing Discovery or How to Draw a Toad - Nature Journaling Interview Friends TOSPUBLISHER Tami tn3jcarter ByHisGraceInColorado parkwaymom EmptyNestMom spunkyjunior Academy252 BlogBoy WritingTips CindyRushton leebenvic RedHeadRyann Belinda Cornflower Mariel mom26kidz creativehsmom SBadgley DreweLlyn MaggieHogan DandelionSeeds Lilacs grownathome TEACHmagazine homeschoolhelp gracefuljourney Stacy EclecticBibliophile LittleEblingsAcademy KerriHopkins TammyC Bioluminescence elljazz joymommy Boltbabe cynthiarobin COMamabear mrskbrook gottsegnet Galatians69 Cre8iveMom MyChildrenAndMe Melkhi Juliestew Joyfulhrt iluvtheland Dell mctenpenny mistresninos Redeemed JoelKing BarbaraS dolphindancer quietcajun BooksandBairns dumspirospero mycrazylife ElCloud akabain JewelSea JeanaG Rebeca REInvestor deedeeuk Hagertroops7 Beverly Margaret MyLittleWomen Louscrew MorningLight rjdjohn316 Jocelyndixon SuperAngel JacqueDixonSoulRestES annointed kurjian4school theheartofthehome ExperimentalKid kcomom 4evrHischild homesweethomeschooler lolly01 InkTraveler PennyRaine tiredmom belovedbooks DixonContestBlog 4kiddos4me SongOfTheSagebrush YoungManInTraining SincerelyAmanda momma9x westward PricelessPurity mariah debbiecorley nancysnook moreofhim ChristineRead stampalot lahbluebonnet srostollan BreezyTulip RaspberryPixieMuffin SchtuffClearance |
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