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Renaissance Mama
Sep. 3, 2006
Time is still flying....
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I cannot believe that I am one of those people that got carried away and wrote in their blog nearly every day and then------ missed a couple of entries and somehow the time flew by and it has been a LOOOOONG time between entries.
What can I say? We had a summer full of goat shows, and endless projects. I swapped horses, sold goats, traveled to shows that I normally consider too far away and bottle fed all kinds of critters. I can't remember how many bottle calves we have done this year. Somewhere over a dozen. A couple litters of pigs and a Tennessee Walker colt. We named him "Bingly" after one of the characters in Pride and Prejudice. Right now, we have a litter of 5 kittens on the porch that Sis is bottle feeding.
The weather was deadly hot this summer and now it has cooled off and the whole farm is rejoicing.
Now-- we are preparing for school. We've been plugging away at rounding up things to get more organized. I get quite a chuckle out of the spring cleaning post because now we are doing a fall cleaning. I swear that I am cleaning the same stuff!!
We plan to start on Tuesday.
This is a bitter sweet time of year for us. On Labor Day, six years ago, my husband had a heart attack. There are times in your life that are mile markers.... you date things according to whether it happened before or after that event. Life for us, is dated as "before the heart attack" and "after the heart attack". Neil survived and is about 95% of what he was "before". In a sense, we lost that whole year. It was almost as if we hit a pause button and lived in limbo. I was pregnant with our 4th child and I really can say that I just endured that pregnancy. I don't remember much about it before the last month.
Majormom was a major lifesaver for us during that time. We have no family in this area and she took on three extra kids for long periods of time during hospital stays.
Bless her heart--- she cleaned my house..... not a job for an amateur. The funny thing is that she cleaned and organised for me. My MIL came to help during another hospital stay and she cleaned and re-organized my kitchen. Then at Thanksgiving, my mom and aunt came to visit and also cleaned and re-organized my kitchen. In April, a midwife friend came from Ga. to help me have the baby. While waiting, she cleaned and re-organized my kitchen..... To this day, I cannot find the beaters for my hand held mixer or the potato masher.......
No longer in limbo!
Tana Mc |
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