Cow Crazy

It's funny how the strangest things in life can bring pleasure. I am so happy about the dead cow in my freezer. I just purchased a cow with Tonya, and Celeste(my mil). I bought half the cow and Tonya and Celeste split the other half. It was fun filling up my freezer with over 250 pounds of beef. I got ground beef, cubed steak, stew meat, London broils, chuck and shoulder roasts, sirloin tip roast, ribeyes, strips, fillet mignon, sirloins, the works. The meat is a black angus, grass fed, and mostly organic. They bring it out of the pasture 30-60 days before butchering and grain feed it to take away the gameness of the meat. I haven't tried any yet, but I'm sure it will be good, anyway I enjoyed putting it away. Another funny thing that brings me pleasure is grocery shopping, not because I love to shop, but because I love to come home and put groceries away. It thrills me to have a pantry full of food to cook, and the frig full of produce and cheese. I will admit that food is my idol.

Wow!

I am writing in Tonya's office right now, because I am spending the night with her 5 kids plus my 3. She is house hunting in Alabama and probably enjoying a quiet evening out with her hubby. I cooked a big supper of pot roast, mashed potatoes, gravy, carrots, the works, little did I realize how crazy that idea was. My homegroup was coming over to Tonya's for our meeting since we usually meet at my house, I just decided to have it here. I was smashing potatoes at 6:00 and praying I could have everything back in order by seven. The only catastrophe was I knocked the gallon of milk off the counter onto the floor, no biggy Lyra cleaned it up for me. It's handy having a little girl around. I am completely bushed though, the children are all snuggled in their beds, or the floor and it is now 10:30pm, it takes a lot of time to bathe and put to bed 8 children.

Lyra has been calling me mama, and I have been saying to her "I'm not your mama, your mama will be home soon", well Solomon heard me saying that to Lyra and he says "that's ok if she calls you mama, you sorta are, and if mine doesn't come home I'll be a Brock like you"

So cute, I hope they always feel that way about me, I could definitely be a mother of eight, at least I know that I would no longer have problems falling asleep, I can't keep my eyes open.

Summer?

I can't believe the weather, it was 88 degrees here today so we took the boys and Jacket (a.k.a. the black moron) to the lake for the first swimming trip of the year. Nate and i didn't brave the muddy lake water, but the boys and Jacket dove right in. There was definitley some teeth chattering but otherwise they seemed to think the water was just fine. I sat on the dirt and sweat quite a bit. There were a lot of people out on the lake today, and we weren't the only swimmers either.