I understand.homesteadmomma said:
Thank you!jambunny said:
The post above was writing two months and 1 day ago, today my dad tells me somebody called his shop looking for my husband. I asked him to please check the caller ID and tell me who it was. He checks and it was the guy that runs the city. My first thought was that our pig that we had moved out of the shop yesterday to his outside pen had escaped and was running through town. Now I am not sure we are allowed to keep swine where we live so I am living on the Don't Ask, Don't Tell deal here with the pig. I ask dh to call him back on my cell phone because I really don't want to talk with him in case that is what the problem is. Dh tells me I am driving you call him. I unwilling make the call and his wife tells me that my duck who has been missing two months is on their shed roof. I tell her I will be home ASAP but it will be at least 1 and 1/2 hours and could please check on her once in awhile. When I finally got there, the duck was still there. However when I tried to net her she flew off. She circled and came back and landed in the creek. I hiked down the creek bank and the gentleman who had called went with me. She really liked him. After hiking through brush, weeds, tall grass and breathing like a pack mule, being almost 7 months pregnant) I get down to the creek. I manage to wade in the COLD water and put the net in the water and prayed. About 10 minutes later, she swam over my way and I netted her. Then I hiked back up the hill with her. She is now home in a pen with a cover over it. I am so happy to have her back.homesteadmomma said:I am writing this down in hopes I can stop crying long enough to accomplish something. The school called and informed us youngest dd needed picked up due to a 14 minute seizure. They had administered her meds at the 5 minute mark and it wasn't stopping it. Dh went to pick her up and I am so thankfully she is okay now. However today is the last school day before Spring Break so I stayed up late last night making cupcakes so the Kindergarten class could celebrate her birthday. She comes and goes in K as she can tolerate it. The kids are very kind to her and she loves them. So now they are eating cupcakes and celebrating her birthday without her. It is such a little thing but it is just one more typical childhood thing that she is missing out on. I am not sure if it is pregnancy hormones or what but it makes me so sad she couldn't share in this. I want her to have a typical childhood as possible but being non-verbal with no hand function and very little balance makes it hard.
Maybe this wouldn't be so bad if my dishwasher hadn't shorted out the electricity in the kitchen and I had running water and electricity right now. Or if my new Muscovy hen hadn't somehow managed to escape and fly off.
I should be rejoicing I live in the USA, have a home, family and food to eat but instead I am sitting here having a pity party.
