Hope you had a nice Memorial Day weekend, we had a very busy one. Not to be a blog whiner, but since we all came home sick with whatever plague my nieces and nephews are dealing in, I'm longing for a long weekend as a respite from my long weekend, since we are all in much worse shape than when we left.
We made the trek up to visit my family (600 miles round trip, in 2 1/2 days), since it was my grandma's 91st birthday and my mom and BIL's shared one too, we thought it would be nice to go for a visit since we hadn't been up since Thanksgiving. My younger sister flew in from Brooklyn and we visited with my dad too, both of whom had birthdays earlier in May. It was nice to see everyone, but honestly it was such a quick trip, save everyone's delight in seeing the kids, it is hard to not kind of wish we'd just stayed home. I think the definition of chaos may actually be six kids under six spending the day in one house, some of them already sick, and our kids don't really sleep well there. No good deed goes unpunished...
My dad and step mom have what I guess you could call a hobby farm. They both had careers, from which they are now both retired, but have for the last 30 years had their self sustaining (off the grid) homestead just outside of town where they raise all their own produce and meat and my dad farms their acreage for the animals' feed.
We made the trek up to visit my family (600 miles round trip, in 2 1/2 days), since it was my grandma's 91st birthday and my mom and BIL's shared one too, we thought it would be nice to go for a visit since we hadn't been up since Thanksgiving. My younger sister flew in from Brooklyn and we visited with my dad too, both of whom had birthdays earlier in May. It was nice to see everyone, but honestly it was such a quick trip, save everyone's delight in seeing the kids, it is hard to not kind of wish we'd just stayed home. I think the definition of chaos may actually be six kids under six spending the day in one house, some of them already sick, and our kids don't really sleep well there. No good deed goes unpunished...
My grandma w/the twins...
My dad and step mom have what I guess you could call a hobby farm. They both had careers, from which they are now both retired, but have for the last 30 years had their self sustaining (off the grid) homestead just outside of town where they raise all their own produce and meat and my dad farms their acreage for the animals' feed.
They've moved on from horses and now have a pet alpaca (below) and llama (not pictured), here with the annual meat cow...
Their brand new little piggie
(which will be their annual supply of bacon/chops)
My step-mom has goats, and we just missed seeing the new baby goats being born. They are just about the cutest things. When we were younger we actually used to dress them up, which sounds so terrible now.
Nice photo bomb buddy.
We gathered some eggs and looked for kittens in the barn. They have a collie "Lassie" dog named Kai...
We gathered some eggs and looked for kittens in the barn. They have a collie "Lassie" dog named Kai...
Mari guarding the hoop house and Alistair loving the animals on their first trip to the farm.
My mom w/the twins
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