Time change and MIL's B'day

 wow...I am loving that extra hour I had this morning I got to sleep in and I still got up early, lol!

 

We got a lot of wood done yesterday and today I wanted to get some junk burned up in the fire pit but it's too windy! Today was supposed to be the warmer day of the weekend but it's so windy that it's colder.

 

In about an hour we are heading out to surprise the mil at the chinese restaurant. The whole family is meeting her and her hubby there for her birthday which is tomorrow. I can't wait to get to that buffetlol

 

We sold one of our little donkeys this morning to a nice couple who had young children. Their little girl was soooo adorable, about 3 with long curly blond locks..she was gorgeous!

RIP Rosa Parks

 Nearly 50 years ago, Rosa Parks made a simple decision that sparked a revolution. When a white man demanded she give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus, the then 42-year-old seamstress said no.

At the time, she couldn't have known it would secure her a revered place in American history. But her one small act of defiance galvanized a generation of activists, including a young Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and earned her the title "mother of the civil rights movement."

Mrs. Parks died Monday evening at her home of natural causes, with close friends by her side, said Gregory Reed, an attorney who represented her for the past 15 years. She was 92.

This was very sad news

 

But the first thing it made me think of was, that as we go through life, no matter how small we think we are in the grand scheme of things...if we just stand up and speak out when we see something wrong, there's no telling how much of a difference we can make

My Uncle has Passed :(

 Good Morning Everyone!

 

I've got the day off and so do 3 of

the kids...it's a 1/2 day at school so I gave

them the option of staying home because

half of the class doesn't show up anyway.

I think a lot of people have to keep the kids home

because they can't arrange day care for the

half day, so I think it's a complete waste of a

school day...but the kids luv it, lol!

 

What did everyone do on the weekend?

 

I worked and got some bad news about my

mom's brother Amos. He's been battling Leuikemia

for a few years now, and he passed away on

Friday He was only 64.

My mom had known he was failing and

planned on going to see him on the weekend,

but was too late. I had quite the weekend thinking

about life, and how much we miss because we

have to make the almighty dollar...and then we

lost a gentleman at work...his name was George..

and though he was 92 and had been walking

and alert up to a few months ago...he died alone

 

George had dozens of birthday cards on his 90th

birthday from people who were supposed to be

his friend and yet when it came down to the end

it was one of the nurses aides who was holding his

hand went he left this world...it just doesn't seem right

 

Anyway, sorry to get off on a downer..

I'm feeling much better today.

Flu Shots

 This is a sore subject with me but yes, I will probably be getting one...under duress! And I make sure that when I sign the paper at work that they are sure to note that!

 

If I don't get the flu shot in the nursing home where I work (and it's the same as most nursing homes around here) then if there is a flu outbreak in the home, I will not be allowed to come in for work...no pay either!

 

I have never had the flu shot until the last couple of years. Two years ago I didn't have it and had to stay home and lost a lot of pay right before Christmas...I just couldn't afford to take that chance again so I got the shot last year even though I didn't want it

 

I have given my older children the option. They are 14 and 16 and I think old enough to decide for themselves...though neither one gets it.

it's not so much that I'm against the needle I think, it's just being told that I have to get it, which totally takes my freedom of choice away! When I started in the nursing home getting the mandatory shot every year wasn't even heard of, it's just been the last few years that the health units have made that call and said we all must have it or not come to work in the case of an outbreak.

 

I also have a problem with the law making us wear our seatbelts. I know it saves lives but again it's MY choice, it shouldn't be theirs!! I'm not hurting anyone else by not wearing it. So you can see that I just seem to have an issue with taking orders!!lol

 

Though, at our home (knock on wood) we are all healthy. The kids didn't even have the normal ear infection and such that seem to plague most kids. We don't take medicine here unless it's quite serious. Any aspirin or fever medication I buy for just in case, always expires before the bottle is barely opened. So I don't see the need to get a shot for the flu that we will all most likely get anyway if we are exposed to the virus.(the shot doesn't necessarily prevent you from getting the same strain or all the other ones that are floating around in the air!) Our bodies seem to have built up a fine immunity system all on their own, and I feel good about making it my choice to not get a shot based on the information I know about my family.

 

Sorry, didn't mean to write a book, lol!

Sharing Some Pics

 I finally got a half decent pic of one of our new

fat cats!lol Here is Rainbow sleeping in the

chair with Colton. Rainbows body is as big as

Colton's islol

Here's two of the kitties playing around

on my arbour...and yes, we had to help them down lol


Here's the new baby calf born last week

A pic of Hannah's Girl and her filly Summer's Rain,

she's getting big and starting to turn a little darker

than she was when she was born.

I took this pic the same day as the one above,

that's our barn and house you see off in the distance.

And just had to include this pic of our

Highland cow and her calf...

aren't they just too adorable?