I'M A MOTHER!!!!
11 years ago
To a 80 lb baby boy!!!! This little guy's momma is really, really sick with emphasima, and there is nothing we could really treat her with. Yesterday, she gave her all with the birth of this healthy bull calf. So sick, she couldn't even clean him off. When I got home from work last night, DH and I went to pick him up. This was the poor little guy when we brought him in the garage. Gave him a bottle of colostrum, tucked him in a blanket bed, and put Kobi the WonderDog in with him to watch him for the night. This morning, I gave him another bottle and DBL gave him another while I was at work.
This was the little guy, after I gave him another bottle when I got home today, and took him outside to enjoy the sunshine. He is bright eyed, and doing a little kicking and bucking. We call him Ferdinand the Bull, and he follows me around like I was his real momma. Kobi has taken the task of babysitting very seriously. Khan the Cat, however, has his nose out of joint and would gladly take a round out of him if it wasn't for Kobi and I. I have really fallen for this little one. He is my pet project for the spring.
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Comments (3)You'll be busy settling in, but you could do spend some time gathering compost/mulch materials then sheet mulching in an afternoon. Veg. starts are $1.49 at McLendons right now with 4 or more in a pack: lettuces, kale, swiss chard, & broccoli are good for this season of planting. Onion sets become green onions this time of year (bulbing happens in summer), stagger the planting times & you'll have a steady supply until hard freezes. You need to wait until next year for squash, green beans, & peas. Purchase them at a farmer's market now for fresh eating. More squash available in fall. I had a lot of volunteer squash this year from the ones I fed the goats & chickens, so I let them grow on. All appear to be what we fed them, not crosses. I've done little care of them, so that might be an option for your kids to "plant" the innards of squash this year by tossing out where you want squash to grow next year. Just remember where you did it... perhaps a circle of sticks upright? I even mulched over the seeds, so was surprised how many sprouted. We've also had volunteer black oil sunflowers from animal bedding that had uneaten seeds. Smother the area with cardboard, then top with 4-6" compost. Depending on what you use the garden will be ready to plant that day or in a few weeks. You might want to start just a 4x4 area so that you can maintain it. Then expand, so by spring you'll have several easy to reach plantable areas. I prefer raised beds for vegetables except squash since they take over so much space anyway & don't need tending once planted. I've done sheet mulching many times including an ornamental front yard garden on Monday. Freebie materials: feed store straw sweepings, barnyard manures, coffee shop used grounds, household tissues/napkins/junk mail, grass clippings (without weedNfeed), leaves, wood chips from chipping companies. Free plants: Green Elephant plant swap 1st Sat. November... more several times a year. See other posts on this forum. Free edible garden plans: just use the free parts: http://www.mysquarefootgarden.net/design-garden-beds/ My favorite is the link below. Here is a link that might be useful: practical SFG...See MoreI'm a proud mother!
Comments (6)Averil, congratulations! You're going to love growing them from seed! I found they're pretty easy once they've sprouted. You could just put them in a sunny window now. My only precaution with my seedlings in the first few weeks was to water with some hydrogen peroxide splashed into the water, or just to spritz them. I lost a few to damping off otherwise. Once they reach about two- to three-months-old they're pretty tough....See MoreEx says I'm negligent
Comments (41)I wasn't "mentally" ready to let DS start staying home by himself after school, but I did what I had to do. Texas doesn't have a "legal age" law. I evaluated whether I thought DS was ready; not whether I was ready. I consulted X (even though I did not need his permission) and we both agreed DS was ready to stay home for 3 hours in the afternoons by himself. He was 1 month away from turning 11. For the most part, he has handled the responsibility really well. He even called me because the UPS guy knocked on the door and he was scared to open it. LOL! If you think DD is ready, then that is your decision. Chances are, nothing will come of this latest threat, but if it does, you are within your legal parental rights to make that decision for your daughter during your custody period. THEY are the ones who have time-and-time-again proven to make bad decisions (like SM attacking you). They would basically be fighting their own reputations in court. They seem, to me, like wounded animals. You know how when a cat is hurt, it swipes and hisses at anything that tries to help it? Why would they keep on swiping at you when they JUST got overnight visits and SM visits back? They are only hurting themselves by continuing their petty behavior when they should be grateful. They really want to go for full custody when, until recently, they couldn't even have an overnight? Seems really stupid and futile on their part, and a judge would see that too. As far as riding in the front seat, check your state's laws on that, too. A lot of the things we hear are just recommendations and even change all the time. If there is a LAW in your state that says children have to ride in the back seat until a certain age, that's one thing. But if it's just a recommendation from some stupid research firm, or non-elected government agency acting as though they have authorities they don't have, then just blow it off and tell BD you checked the laws in your state and it is perfectly legal....See MoreChristmas and Families Demands - Long post
Comments (39)Thank you, scissors, for posting this. My in-laws are very nice people, but were very demanding about Christmas. My friends who haven't been through it often don't really understand the level of intensity people like that feel about being at all their family Christmas functions. Those posters who say things like "I seriously doubt that they realize the pressure and inconvenience it creates" - yes, yes they DO understand the pressure and inconvenience it creates. It's not that they don't understand and it's not that they don't care, but it is bone-deep critical to them that you be there no matter what the cost. Those posters who say blame it on the baby, or "they can't be mad at a baby" - that doesn't work either. They don't care if it doesn't suit the baby's schedule, or if the baby has a routine and doesn't respond well to changes, or anything like that. As far as they are concerned, what the baby wants is completely, totally immaterial. As far as they are concerned, it's a baby. The baby will get over it. It doesn't matter if the baby is cranky, tired, has been dragged all around the state in the past two days in the name of Christmas, the baby and the parents can/should handle it. The ONLY acceptable reason for the baby not to come is if the baby is sick. Not just a cold or the sniffles, but running a fever, etc. Again, it's not that they don't understand and it's not that they don't care. They do. But it is unthinkable that they don't have all their family at their Christmas functions. NO other holiday will substitute. Not a family reunion in the summer, not Thanksgiving, nothing but Christmas. I don't understand it, I'll never understand it. I tried to understand it, and after all these years I'm glad I don't understand it. My son is 24 years old and for the first time in his life we are going to have all of Christmas Day at home. He told me just the other day that he is "totally pumped" about the awesome Christmas Day we can have at home. Knowing my son, I thought "Oh my goodness. What on earth are we in for?!!! Are we driving to some spectacular mountain biking spot, driving for 6 hours to some place where we can snow tube?!!!!" Nope, what he wants is to stay in pajamas, cook a big breakfast, play games and cards and watch movies like "What a Wonderful Life". He's never had that. How did I handle demanding relatives at Christmas? When my husband asked me to marry him, I kid you not I told him that I would like to marry him, but we had to agree that we wouldn't go to all 4 separate family Christmas celebrations his family held for the rest of my life - no way was I dragging my kids to all that. If my family had had the same attitude as my husband's family, we would have had 8, yes 8 separate family events complete with travel, large meal and gift exchange. Ahhhhh, thanks for letting me vent!!!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you that there is someone else somewhere who understands. Hugs across the internet, scissors!!!!...See More- 11 years ago
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