One of those Crazy weeks

This week has just been nuts. Seems like I have spent more time on the road that anything else. We live about 25 miles from where we work and then the kids go to school about 15 min from our house to town. Monday Duchess had gymnastics, Tuesday I had parent teacher conference for Bob, Wed was church, and Thursday was parent teacher Conference for Duchess. I hate weeks like these I feel so drained. Hurry hurry it seems. So I got nothing accomplished this. I guess I will be making up for some of it this weekend. I am so excited my husband is starting to work on the house again. We live in my Great Grandparents house my Grandma was born in this house and I love it. It still needs so much work. We have so much to tell our grandchildren and our kids about this house. When we married and we lived in what I always called the summer kitchen it was where all the canning was done and that was the gathering place in the summer when I was little. We had no kitchen cabinets no sink in the kitchen. Jon worked for a Poultry Supply store and they went together and got us a grill that was the best wedding present ever. I did dishes in the bathtub. We lived like this for about 2 1/2 months or so. When I cooked it had to be on the grill, electric skillet (thank goodness for electric) or slow cooker. I hated it then but I don't think I would want to change it now. We were re doing everything in the house and the Kitchen was the first project. It is still not done still on Plywood floors but as Jon says it is the best floor you will ever have and easy cleaning just take the shop vac to it. However, we started the house before we married about 6 mo to a 1yr before we married in July we will be married 12 years. It is time to start on the house again and get the floors all done don't you think? We ran out of money then saved then something happened to the Angus Bull we had so we had to buy another with the money I had been saving. Then we saved again and then something happened at the barn with the water and all the pipes had to be replaced out there so there you go welcome to farm life. But I can't say a whole lot we gutted a 2 story house that is over 100 year old house that has so many memories of good and bad times and as Jon says we have a roof over our heads, a wood stove to keep us warm what else could you ask for. So true, especially since it got so cold we had our first fire last night for the winter it felt so good. Even though it is taking Bob, Duchess, Jon, and I to keep Chief from getting into it. He tells us Hot but he is not scared. I will have to take some pictures of the house so you can see what we have done. Things are slowing down now with the fairs over with anyway for my family they are my sis and her family leaves next week for the American Royal in Kansas City to show some pigs. And my parents have decided to call it quits with the dairy farm which is another story. Dad (or Papa) has milked since he was 16. Its kind of sad in some ways. Jon laughs at me I will miss not seeing those black and white cows out there. I keep telling him to let me start milking but Jon and Dad laugh at me for even wanting to. We are keeping some heifers so if things don't work out we have about 75 to start milking next fall.