I can't believe its only 2 days until Christmas! The last few months have flown by. Every year, time passes by more quickly it seems. I am absolutely loving Christmas this year though. Bug is really having fun with the tree, decorations, and lights. We have to have the tree on whenever we're home, he's quite insistent! Luckily he doesn't bother the tree much, just seems to like to look at it. I should bite my tongue...he'll probably be all over it now. Isn't that the way kids always work?? We had Christmas with my in-laws on Sunday and he was a pro at opening gifts. They spoiled him, as grandparents do, but at least they more or less honored our request of not too many "big" things...our house is rather small. He got one big thing, a workbench which I'm sure he'll love. Right now its still in the box in the basement. It can come out after the tree comes down. I'm starting to resign myself to the fact that for the next few years our living room and dining room both will likely look like one big playroom. Tomorrow we'll be baking some more cookies, I've only had the chance to make two different kinds so far. Bug has helped with both though, he was the head sprinkler for the last batch and he LOVED that job! You could barely see some of the cookies for all the sprinkles, but he sure had fun. And get this...not only did he not want to try any of the cookies after they were done...he snacked on frozen peas (yes, frozen peas...its one of the only veggies I can get him to eat right now!) while we baked the cookies. I figure this is probably the last time that will happen! Meanwhile, his sweet-toothed Momma was popping cookies in my mouth as they came out of the oven... Um, the babies were hungry. Yeah, that's it.
150 dry cows are arriving today...so much for having my hubby around. It has been wonderful while it lasted though! He's been a huge help with the Bug and just around the house in general. We'll be out of the heifer-raising/dry cow-feeding business come April. The dairy we raise them for was milking at two separate farms and has decided to shut one down due to labor issues, and will use that farm to raise the heifers. Ok with us, as the owners were becoming more and more difficult to work with and since they are in their late 50s, early 60s, we knew they'd retire at some point anyway. Knowing that we won't be under contract to keep any animals...I have to say, its been tempting to leave our barns empty and exclusively be grain farmers. Think of all the extra TIME!! Realistically, we'll probably always have some type of livestock though. Just not sure exactly what animals will inhabit our barns next...probably some sort of cattle.
We've been doing home improvement projects too! Told you it was nice to have hubby around the house! Last week we pulled up the carpet in the dining room and half of the living room (halfway through the crop insurance guy showed up and hubby hasn't had a chance to get back to it...so for now we have "the old living room" and "the new living room" ha!). The plan had been to pull the carpet up in the dining room by the time the twins were ready for solids. We can't fit 5 people at the table in the kitchen, and carpet where 3 kids eat? Not a good idea. We were just hoping the hardwood that we knew was under said carpet was nice. WOW! Its gorgeous! It almost looks like the previous owners refinished the floors right before installing the carpet. Why? Who knows, but I'd like to thank them for it! It looked so nice, and the old carpet looked so bad...that Hubby decided to scrap our plan of waiting until the kids were bigger to get new carpet in the living room and just started pulling that carpet up too. The plan now is to put some good padding and a nice big carpet remnant down in the living room (same thing we did in the Bug's room and it looks really nice). On top of that, my parents got us a new front door and a new side/kitchen door for Christmas, so Hubby and my dad (not a good home improvement duo, by the way!!) installed those on Monday. I love them and that combined with the "new" floors makes it look like a whole new house!
We'll have Christmas Day all to ourselves for the first time ever this year, since we did the in-law's Christmas last weekend and we're going to my family's Christmas on Sunday. I'm excited to have a calm, relaxing Christmas Day with just my little family. Oh yeah, and the 200+ cows outside...oh well. At least we don't have to go anywhere other than church! And did I mention we're getting a truly white Christmas for I think the first time since I've lived down here?? That makes this snow-belt girl happy!
I'm going to enjoy my favorite holiday of the year and I'm sure I won't be back on here until sometime next week, so I hope you all have a Merry Christmas!
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Is this thing on?
Hello? Anybody still out there? Or have you all given up on me? I couldn't blame you if you had!
I'm still around though! I've been trying to catch up with my bloggie friends lately...slowly but surely. Nothing exciting going on, just life, you know. Harvest is done and it gets dark at about 5:30, which is a combination I love because it means I get my husband back in the evenings! He's been so helpful lately, playing with Bug while I make dinner, helping with baths, dishes, picking up toys, etc. This past weekend, he even was able to spend the majority of the weekend with us, which is a very rare thing anymore. It was so fun to have him around! I could definitely get used to this. I better not though, because in about a week or so we'll get an extra 200 or so head of cattle for him to be taking care of. The good thing is, he should still be home in the evenings...just not as much on weekends. Well, he'll be "home" as in...on our farm...but not in the house where we are. We can get bundled up and go out and "help" for a little while but with temps barely reaching 20 degrees lately, I don't think that's the best idea.
I'm feeling great. A little heartburn here and there, a little sciatic nerve pain now and then, but all in all I really can't complain. I'm 25 weeks already...scratch that...26 weeks tomorrow. Amazes me how fast this pregnancy is going. Babies are busy little bees in there! Always wiggling around. I'm always wondering what on earth they're doing. Both are head up now. Baby Boy always has been and Baby Girl decided to join him that way. I guess she wanted to be able to talk to her brother instead of just kicking him in the head like she had been doing. I'm not worrying about their positions too much. If they don't flip back, well, I guess my decision on how to try to deliver is pretty much made for me. If one or both flip, then we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. No sense in worrying about things I can't control.
Christmas is just over a week away! And believe it or not, I'm just about ready. This is the most organized I've ever been for Christmas, its great! We finished all our shopping about a week and a half ago, cut our tree on Sunday and put it up last night. Bug loved getting all the ornaments out of the box. He only had interest in hanging the first couple ornaments. After that all he wanted to do was unload the box. Not surprising. But he did put the angel on top, with help from Daddy! I have more than half the presents wrapped, and we made cookies as a family last weekend. I'm hoping to make more this weekend. This Christmas has been the most fun Christmas for me since I was a kid myself. I've always looked forward to Christmases with my own kids, and this seems to be one of the few things that I've looked forward to for so long and is actually living up to the picture I have in my mind. Usually I build something up so much in my head, that its nearly impossible for the actual event to live up to my hype. But Christmas with kids? It really is as great as I imagined! And to think, this is only the beginning!! Its going to be more and more fun every year!
I have a million other things that have popped into my head over the last few weeks that I've been meaning to blog about. But if I try to fit them all into this post, I'll never finish it and that will just contribute to my blog slacking. So this will do for now! Hope everyone, where ever you all are, is staying warm! High of 19 today...low of 8 tonight. Brrrrrrr, and its only mid-December too!
I'm still around though! I've been trying to catch up with my bloggie friends lately...slowly but surely. Nothing exciting going on, just life, you know. Harvest is done and it gets dark at about 5:30, which is a combination I love because it means I get my husband back in the evenings! He's been so helpful lately, playing with Bug while I make dinner, helping with baths, dishes, picking up toys, etc. This past weekend, he even was able to spend the majority of the weekend with us, which is a very rare thing anymore. It was so fun to have him around! I could definitely get used to this. I better not though, because in about a week or so we'll get an extra 200 or so head of cattle for him to be taking care of. The good thing is, he should still be home in the evenings...just not as much on weekends. Well, he'll be "home" as in...on our farm...but not in the house where we are. We can get bundled up and go out and "help" for a little while but with temps barely reaching 20 degrees lately, I don't think that's the best idea.
I'm feeling great. A little heartburn here and there, a little sciatic nerve pain now and then, but all in all I really can't complain. I'm 25 weeks already...scratch that...26 weeks tomorrow. Amazes me how fast this pregnancy is going. Babies are busy little bees in there! Always wiggling around. I'm always wondering what on earth they're doing. Both are head up now. Baby Boy always has been and Baby Girl decided to join him that way. I guess she wanted to be able to talk to her brother instead of just kicking him in the head like she had been doing. I'm not worrying about their positions too much. If they don't flip back, well, I guess my decision on how to try to deliver is pretty much made for me. If one or both flip, then we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. No sense in worrying about things I can't control.
Christmas is just over a week away! And believe it or not, I'm just about ready. This is the most organized I've ever been for Christmas, its great! We finished all our shopping about a week and a half ago, cut our tree on Sunday and put it up last night. Bug loved getting all the ornaments out of the box. He only had interest in hanging the first couple ornaments. After that all he wanted to do was unload the box. Not surprising. But he did put the angel on top, with help from Daddy! I have more than half the presents wrapped, and we made cookies as a family last weekend. I'm hoping to make more this weekend. This Christmas has been the most fun Christmas for me since I was a kid myself. I've always looked forward to Christmases with my own kids, and this seems to be one of the few things that I've looked forward to for so long and is actually living up to the picture I have in my mind. Usually I build something up so much in my head, that its nearly impossible for the actual event to live up to my hype. But Christmas with kids? It really is as great as I imagined! And to think, this is only the beginning!! Its going to be more and more fun every year!
I have a million other things that have popped into my head over the last few weeks that I've been meaning to blog about. But if I try to fit them all into this post, I'll never finish it and that will just contribute to my blog slacking. So this will do for now! Hope everyone, where ever you all are, is staying warm! High of 19 today...low of 8 tonight. Brrrrrrr, and its only mid-December too!
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