Author: mevans8085

So raising kids is hard! No one told me this before i had them… I love both of my children but my son, ugh my son. He has to be his fathers kid because i sure don’t remember acting the way he does some times. So in school the other day decided to spell a not so nice word, yes his dad and i cuss but i thought i had raised my kids to know better, i was wrong. He’s 8 and in the first grade so hes at the age he knows right and wrong, or so i hope. I’m on my way to the school to pick the kids up and i get a message from his teacher that my kid decided to spell out F*** to one of the kids he sits next to, WOW! talk about a shock, i get to the school park and go in both the kids look at my like uhhh why is mom coming in? i get into the school and head towards my sons class room so he figured i was going to talk to his teacher. him and i go in and talk to his teacher and try to decide exactly how to handle this….. I told her i would do my best to discipline him at home and told her that what ever she decided was a fair punishment at school i would be OK with. In the first grade they have a thing called free choice at the end of the day, she decided to take away that, boy was he mad. I have since taken away all electronics and he now has an earlier bed time, yes the mom guilt has set in and he knows that i’m not one to stick to punishments, but i have to stick to this one, i don’t want him to think he can just get away with what ever he wants and that there is consequences for his actions. I know i’m not the only parent out there that is going though similar situations, but i sure never hear about them. Now my daughter shes almost 11 and wants to become that social butterfly that most girls turn into, which is fine again not sure where she got that from i was always that kid that went home never and never did anything, but i’m glad shes not like her momma and has friends. well we have this rule that she needs to talk to her dad and i before hand and not just come running out of school asking if so and so can come over. again heres where the push over mom comes in, most of the time i give in and say “yea they can come over for a while”, well after my sons ordeal i was in no mood to deal with any extra kids or have them see my yelling like a crazy lady. So i told her no and here comes the “well mom she already asked her parents and they said it was ok”. uhh no child that’s not how that works so i had to take the little girl home and feel like the bad guy and hoped it didn’t ruin my daughters friendship with this other girl. we get home i’m talking to them both asking if they remembered the rules or how were supposed to act? i was tossing the idea around about if i should tell their dad. yes, i ended up ratting them both out to their dad and surprisingly he took it better than i did, normally hes the disciplinarian. he talked to both kids and stood behind me on the being grounded from electronics, i guess i can count that as a win for team parents. now fast forward to today after school the girl kid of mine listened and came out of school by herself and didn’t ask if she could have a friend over. the boy on the other hand….i asked hey did u have a good day today? he said well yes i didn’t get in trouble. so i messaged his teacher to double check…….his story did not match up at all. apparently he decided he didn’t want to do his school work so he just threw it in the trash! ugh kid your going to make me bald before he turns 18. his teacher told me she made him get it out of the trash and finish his work during his free choice time, good call teach good call. after i told him i messaged his teacher he just said mom stop, you don’t nee to check on me every day, that right there tells me i need to check on him everyday because he leaves some details out. i know its just the age or a phase and this to shall pass. All i can say is it needs to hurry and get straightened out before i need to go wig shopping!

Who would have thought that raising goats would be so stressful? we decided to start raising goats for the kids 4-H projects. I guess i didn’t realize what all went into raising goats, and being 15 miles away from where they are it makes for a long day it takes 15 mins or less to feed but 30 mins to get out there to them. So this year was my first experience with the breeding and boy was it ummm…something. Yea i love the cute little babies when they are born but going through the whole process is a bit disgusting! most all the babies that were born on our farm this year had to come at the most inconvenient time, during my daughters basketball season and her dad was the coach, also the coldest part of the darn year. I found i’m not to fond of the cold after sitting out there with them until midnight watching a momma and her new born babies to make sure everything was going the way they should. Thank god i didn’t have to do it alone i’m not to sure how i would have handled that. between the help of Zach of course, my sister and my two best friends i made it thought our first kidding season! YAY ME! I used to have a love to for cute little bottle babies, well not so much any more i mean i still love them and ill take care of them but after having 10 i’m kinda over the bottle baby thing, which i think Zach knew what he was doing when we started breeding, he figured if we had a bunch of does there was bound to be a few mommas that couldn’t take care of their kids. He was right unfortunately. some of the bottle babies i had i’m sure could have been avoided but after i saved their little life i wasn’t giving them back to their mom, which is where the second part of this story leads. we will call this the good, the bad, and the ugly. After some of our does had their kids in the freezing cold i might add they were less than perfect mothers but when their having 2 and 3 at a time i kinda can’t blame them in the beginning, but i would thing after resting a while after giving birth you would want to take care of your babies but hey i could be wrong, animals might not thing like us humans . my daughter and i have learned a lot about saving baby goats life and its a super hard lesson to learn after you find out you can’t save them all. we had a few this year that the cold got to them and the momma was less than a momma (sad but true). So when we went out to check on the babies sometimes two and three times a day we always found something new, sometimes good, some times bad, but we dealt with it the best we knew how. The good was when we seen a doe have her kids and was doing exactly what she was supposed to, cleaning them off, let them feed, just being the best momma a goat could be, that was always the exciting part. the bad part was when we found one that had passed and there was nothing we could do about it, weather it passed from maybe getting to cold and not having enough to eat after it was born, or maybe the momma accidentally rolled over on it and suffocated it, or we even had a few still born that’s these are all the worst and such a hard thing to try and teach my kids that sometimes accidents happens and we can’t control everything, their slowly learning. The ugly part is when we go check and we find one alive but just barley, the things that go through your mind as you have a cold wet baby goat wrapped in a blanket with the heater on full blast driving the 15 miles back to the house. I’m sitting there rubbing it, talking to it (yea silly i know but sometimes i swear it works), or rocking it back and forth (that’s just the mom in me, haha). When we get them home it takes hours to bring them back to life so to say, the first hour or so your sitting there doing all you have learned to do and hoping for the best, i can say with confidence i did not lose any baby goats due to almost freezing to death! It’s a long process but i’m willing to go though the process so i can say, Hey i tried and i succeeded!

Welcome to the wondful journy that is MEGAN! the purpose of this blog is to be funny, serious, and tell some down right crazy stories of my life with a wonderful man, 2 kids, 2 dogs, a rabbit and a herd of obnoxious goats. I have been with the Zach 16 years and we have had many adventures, after having kids and them joining 4H and wanting to do every sport known to man you can imagine i have have some pretty wild stories from time to time. we have always done some sort of “farming” building fence, runing cattle, planting crops,to starting our own goat heard. our two kids 10 and 8 have a love for all animals from cows to birds. we staring raising goats this year to help with 4H so we would have a plethora of options for the kids to pick through, they also show sheep, cattle, and a horse, so showing up to our county fair kinda looks like the circus has came to town, but we wouldn’t trade it for the world and love every minuet of it. so i hope ya’ll enjoy reading about my crazy farm and family aka farmly!!!

Thanks for joining me!

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