Updates

I haven't written a post in sooo long. There hasn't been anything very newsworthy happening and I have been kinda lazy. Then the only big piece of news we had in the fall was just depressing. I will add pictures later when I am at home.

First of all, there was another baby cow born in the fall. It is a very healthy baby boy. And, for a change, it was all red rather than red with white splotches on its face. I can't even remember if the last round of baby goats had been born before my last post, but 4 more have been born, although one died after about two months or so. We aren't sure what happened, but my dad and my brother found it one day when they noticed it wasn't hanging around the other goats.

Secondly, we lost our cat in October. I had been planning on writing a post about it at the time, but every time I thought about it I would get too emotional and not even attempt it. Our cat was an outdoor cat that liked to spend time inside with us, but loved being outside even more. So, one day we noticed that she hadn't come up to eat that morning and looked for her that night when we got home from work. We found her pretty badly injured in our yard. It seemed that she had been hit by a car. After the fact we found out that my father-in-law actually saw it happen, but didn't know that it was our cat. Anyway, we took her to the emergency vet and had to have her put to sleep. We couldn't afford for them to do anything to try to save her and she seemed hurt badly enough that to save her would take a lot. She had completely broken all her bones in one leg and seemed to be bleeding internally. It was a very horrible decision for us to make, but she was in a lot of pain. Even though it has been a while I am still getting teary eyed just writing about it. We plan on getting another cat in a few years, but not for a while. We can't afford the up front vet costs to properly care for a cat and will be better able to handle all of that in a few years. Meanwhile, all the neighborhood cats are sorry for the loss because that means we no longer have food on our porch for them to come steal. I will probably write a separate post about our cat eventually, but as I am a sensitive emotional mess, I won't do that for a while yet.

Thanksgiving and Christmas were pretty uneventful. We saw almost all of our family and had a good time. There was a round of all the people we were related to getting the nasty croupy cold (including each of us). Then, right before Christmas, Shawn's entire family had a nasty stomach bug. Thankfully we didn't catch that. Shawn's birthday was uneventful, just the way he likes it. He doesn't like the idea of getting older, so he would rather not really celebrate. His parents took us out to eat, and since it was New Year's Eve, we went back to their house to watch fireworks being shot off by Whitney's friends.

I did actually make another baby blanket. That makes 6 in about 14 months time. The thing is that I know about twice that many people that have had babies in that time period. I also just found out that one of my friends is expecting their second baby, another friend is expecting her first baby, and I am still trying (ugh!).

Speaking of that frustration, it has been eight and a half months and I am starting to wonder if there is a problem. I know that I should not jump to that conclusion because it took my mom 2 years to get pregnant the first time and a year to get pregnant the second time, and I know other people that tried for just as long or longer. However, when it is you trying to get pregnant, it seems as though it is never going to happen. So when I got my period last month (on Christmas, not the present I was looking for) I broke down and cried for about ten minutes. It was very disheartening.

This whole frustration over trying is probably another reason I haven't posted anything recently. Almost every else's blog that I read is about their newest baby, so I just feel like mine is nothing great to read for anyone. There are only so many cow and goat pictures I can show before people get tired of them. I would just like to have some better news to spread to the world than baby animals being born and cat deaths. So, for now, I will probably continue to post only sporadically.