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Renaissance Mama
Mar. 23, 2006
Kitchen madness
| Something happened yesterday evening. I sat down after supper and chores to cuddle in the recliner with my baby boy -- who will soon be five. I had quite a lapful of squirming boy with a cold-- and the next thing I know, he is patting my face and telling me not to snore so loud! Silly child--- Mama doesn't snore! The rest of the family all snorted with laughter and I took myself off to bed at about 8:00pm. \
Of course, that meant that I woke up at 2:30 am instead of 5:30 am. I didn't feel the leat bit guilty rolling back over and sleeping until 6:00am. When I did get up, I had quite a surprise when I looked out the windows to a dusting of about an inch of snow. My shriek of surprise woke up the rest of the clan. The middle two kids and I struggled into our coveralls and cold boots ( they had been out on the porch-- yikes!) and headed out for morning chores. The goats were all hanging out at the gate and eager to get into the milk barn for their breakfast and a drink of warm water. It's those little luxuries in life....
After the rain and the little bit of snow, the mud is everywhere and very sticky. We literally slogged around getting it all done and back to the house. While we are outside, my oldest son is taking "care" of the five year old, making breakfast, and tidying up the kitchen. I had made goat milk soap yesterday so we had lots of extra stuff in the kitchen. After we ate, I assigned household chores for the other kids while I got ready to make a double batch of soap before lunch. Yesterday's batch was ready to be unmolded and cut into bars. That means it gets to move from the kitchen to the dining room and we will be eating sandwiches on a TV table until I around to re-stacking them somewhere else.
By the time I got everything measured out and started, the boys began to bicker and phone began to ring and my hubby came to the door to wish me a happy anniversary. Twenty one years this poor man has put up with goats on the porch, a big mess of some kind in the kitchen, and general chaos threaded through the rest of our lives. Bless him! Despite much teeth gritting, and threats to kill my offspring, the soap turned out beautifully and was in its molds by 10:35 am.
Then hubby and I zipped over to the neighbor's farm to buy his used cow chute. We have heifers that we plan to breed artificially in May and we must have some way to confine them during this "up close and personal" experience. The whole family plans to go to another neighbor's yearly cow sale right after lunch and then someone has to get my daughter to piano lessons by 4:00pm.
Not every gal gets a cow chute and an afternoon at a cow sale on her anniversary! Blessed indeed! LOL!!
Tana Mc |
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