Humble Pie
Posted on November 20th, 2005 By ljrobinson at 12:43 pm (All)
The coming of fall and the first snow of the season are humbling events this year. It’s difficult to swallow all the plans of getting things ready to have animals before the end of the year when we started out so enthusiastic and full of hope. As always, things get in the way. Unexpected bills come up and my mind gets sidetracked with things that seem overwhelmingly (yes Dear, I am OCD) important like painting the inside of the house (which still isn’t done). So, the chickens and goats will wait until spring when we can start again. Until then, we can continue to pull up cockleburrs and burn the mountains of yard waste that have been cleared already and learn to see the real progress we have made even though we overestimated what we could do in a few months.
Rebecca (Pakish) Crum said,
November 23, 2005 at 3:53 pm
Don’t beat yourself up so much. What’s more important is that you make plans and you keep making plans to get stuff done, not the timeline in which you do it. Would you sacrifice fun moments with the kids for your timeline? There is plenty of time for goats and chickens and whatever else you want to do. Your commute is insane and we’re not getting any younger. You are allowed to come home and do nothing some weekends, otherwise you’ll just keel over.