In the Midst of Snow, remembering last May (2009)

This was last week:
Saturday 16 May-Larry drives down to see Ansil graduate
Sunday -girls and I move furniture out of living and office rooms after church.
Monday-CJ tears up carpet (YUCKY)
Tuesday-Ansil is home and helps CJ put down laminate flooring. Wonderful.
Wednesday-last classes for girls. I will never darken GPCs doors again. Hurrah! Rush home and start tilling.
Thursday-last school related activity, a field trip and picnic. We are done except for independent studies that they can finish on their own. Back home, start planting.
Friday- all day in garden, press Ansil and Esther into helping. House doesn't have furniture back in place, but Ansil's party is the next day. Della keeps working on that.
Saturday 23rd-Ansil's going away party. Fortunately, weather is great and so people are mostly outside, since we still haven't put all the furniture back. Belle adds excitement by having 2 babies (now our total is four)
Sunday-church, home to pull the oxen out of the ditch...finish putting house back together, continue with garden since rain clouds are looming. Doesn't rain, but we fall into bed exhausted (or, besausted, as Morgan the 4 year old says).
Monday-Since it didn't rain, we rush into phase two with the garden. I make sure that things are mulched so the rain doesn't repeat the Nile Delta scenario of last year, when half my garden soil went south after torrential rains. Daughter Laura and husband CJ stop on their way home from Ohio, and as they arrive with their two tired children, Victoria the goat has three babies in the dirt in the pigpen. Filthy little goats, colostrum, and grandkids all over the place. We fall into bed exhausted (wait, did I already say use that line?)
Tuesday-the girls all want to do their delayed birthday outing. CJ agrees to stay with grandkids, Larry leaves to take Ansil off to join the Army, and I take Della, Esther, Laura, Hannah, and a friend to Unique, a big thrift store in Fairfax. We make it home before rush hour and start doing chores while grabbing bites of pizza; I have bought fresh fruit and baby carrots to go with it, since otherwise we will have all had nothing but donuts, coffee, bagels, and pizza today. Surprise! Another baby goat. That makes eight bottle babies. I lose it and announce that I am GOING TO TAKE MY BATH AND THE KITCHEN HAD BETTER BE CLEANED UP BEFORE I COME DOWN.