I never thought I would...

Things I never thought I would do…

Put my hand in a cow’s mouth

Put a thermometer in a cow’s rear

Stick any animal with a needle

Land in a pig slop trough

And laugh about it!

Stay awake at night worrying about a calf making it through the night

Spend more on animal feed in a month than on people groceries!

Get to where I wouldn’t buy meat

Because of raising all of our own!

Be excited about all the manure outside

Because it’s free compost for the garden!

Skin a pig

Make my own bacon

Cure my own ham

Grind my own meat

That I raised and grew and fed

And played with!

Chase a cow through a muddy pasture during a thunderstorm

To keep it from getting out through the barbed wire

And spending half of the next day fixing fence that startled cows trampled

And unbending/ straightening the cattle panels.

Putting up 5 acres of fence by myself

Making sure the fence line is straight and panels attached securely.

Learning to raise animals while raising nine kids

Having nine kids

That are mine!

And loving it!!

Running 3 loads of laundry

Every day

6 days a week

And still getting behind on laundry at times!

Yup, learning to be a hobby farm wife and mom to a large family has been a growing and learning experience!  Make that MANY experiences!!! J

And you know what? 

I wouldn’t trade it.

Not for the world.